Jeff Stubbs, Derrell Taylor stayed at Jackson State despite odds

JACKSON, Mississippi  -- When Wayne Brent was hired as Jackson State’s basketball coach and held his first workout in March of last year, he had 10 players show up.

By the fall, Jeff Stubbs and Derrell Taylor were the only major contributors left from that initial group.

Brent, though, has never asked why they decided to stay.

“I probably would have never had a conversation with them because my thing has always been, ‘This is the way we’re going to do it, and if you don’t want to do it like this, there’s almost 300 other schools you can go to,’” Brent said. “If you come to practice and put up with what we can do, you got to be a tough-minded individual.”

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