[Camron Rust]

After reading many of the critical comments on his speech (mostly elsewhere), I decided to watch it for myself...wondering if he really was a classless jerk that some were making him out to be.

I couldn't disagree more.


His consistent point revolved around decisions made by others that drove him to work harder. He wasn't trying to call them out, but was pointing out that their decisions are what made him what his became....giving him the drive to be more.

Would Jordan have achieved what he did had that HS coach not cut him? Can't really say but it is certainly comprehensible to consider that he wouldn't have. Maybe he wouldn't have been driven to overcome that coach's decision.

That was what I got out of his speech.

What you saw what a speech written without the benefit of experienced speech writers....writers who would make sure that the points wouldn't have been so easily miscontrued.