Why bother, right?
Why bother with the pipe dream that Patrick Baldwin Jr. — the son of two Northwestern student-athletes and a consensus top-three prospect in the 2021 men’s basketball recruiting class — would even consider becoming a Wildcat over joining a perennial powerhouse like Duke before heading to the NBA? What purpose would that dream serve other than to hurt one’s own psyche as a Northwestern fan?
I have a reason why, but I feel that Andy from Shawshank Redemption puts in a much more eloquent way than I ever could.
“Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.