Royce White, a former member of the University of Minnesota Golden Gophers basketball team, quit his team yesterday by way of a grainy YouTube video. This video featured more of him walking around the city with music playing than his actual "interview", which seems to be someone holding a cellphone camera up to a computer monitor. To get to the his interview, skip up to 3:24
Royce White came to Tubby Smith's Golden Gophers squad as one of the most highly-touted recruits in the country at forward. He leaves it with nothing more than the hope of having the highest amount of pageviews for his video resignation.
White says he's leaving the Minnesota basketball team because of his legal troubles and the stress they are causing his family and the program.
White has been a suspension machine since heading to the University of Minnesota. First losing time - and doing time -for a theft and assault on a Mall of America security guard incident, and most recently for a dustup over accusations involving a stolen laptop on campus.
Seems that White has had enough, as he discusses in his video, and is leaving the team to concentrate on getting his life in order. Nobody can deny him that worthy goal, but the self broadcast is a little odd. Hopefully it all works out in the end.
Minnesota athletics director Joel Maturi said that White hasn't informed anyone in his department about a decision.
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