Texas Southern coach Mike Davis has made no secret about how he fills the Tigers’ roster. TSU’s team consists mostly of transfers and second-chance players.
The best story on Davis’ roster this season has to be Derrick Griffin, a 6-7 forward.
Griffin was highly recruited as a football player coming out of high school.
At various points in the recruiting process, he verbally committed to Texas A&M and signed with Miami before being deemed academically inelgibile, leading to his transfer to Texas Southern. He was rated a four-star wide receiver and the No. 7 player at the position overall in 2013, according to Scout.com.
Griffin plays both football and basketball for Texas Southern, though he played two games this fall. He was a standout in 2015, when he amassed 36 catches for 709 yards and 11 touchdowns.
“He’s a talented player , a big-time athlete who can cause some problems,” Davis told the Star’s Bruce Pascoe. “He wanted to focus on basketball and he wants to play football and he was torn between both.”
Against Arizona on Wednesday, Griffin scored 14 points and grabbed 11 rebounds. On the season, he was averaging 12.2 points and 8.5 rebounds per game.
