And yes, sometimes it is that unspectacular. The math of who makes it and who doesn’t, or what making it even is. All of it, a series of accidents. Who got caught with what, and when. Who did their dirt on the low, so low that it hums, indecipherable beneath the decoration of stardom. Someone catches a bad break, gets injured at the wrong tournament, gets pulled over by the wrong cop before the state tournament. And like that, there’s someone else collecting scholarship offers. It might be heartbreaking, but it isn’t spectacular.
