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b a s k e t b a l l p l a y e r f e a t u r e : FALLING UP f i f t h - y e a r t r a n s f e r s Once displaced, Carter lands at Purdue BY BRIAN NEUBERT BNeubert@ GoldandBlack.com S terling Carter says he's moved beyond his past, his unusual and unceremonious dismissal from Seattle University in his home city. But it's difficult for the new Purdue guard to completely conceal his anger and frustration over what transpired last winter, when he was simply cut from his team midseason, despite being highly productive and by every account a headache for no one. Tom Campbell It follows him around, Sterling Carter isn't happy with the way his career ended at Seattle, his hometown school even to this day. dismissing without offering a public explanation. But he's just used that to "add fuel to my "It still kind of burns me, fire," eager to showcase his abilities in his one season with Purdue. even though I am over the Pacific, Carter transferred back home in the Pacific Northwest's largest mesituation," said Carter, who'll spend and suited up for the Redhawks. dia market, Carter's dismissal was his final season of college eligibility He was Seattle's second-leading maybe a brief in the next day's paper, playing for the Boilermakers. "It still scorer in 2010-11 and a starter in all nothing more. kind of burns just to know that that 31 games for Coach Cameron DolIt "burns" Carter not only that Dolwas my hometown and it was like no lar's team. The following season, his lar cut him with very little explanation one cared. A lot of alumni and some of minutes dipped some and he started given, he says, but also that the situthe fans did, but I felt like no one really fewer games, but he again averaged ation was left open for interpretation looked into it. double-figures in scoring, good for publicly. "I feel like if the people there actual- second-best on the team. In the absence of solid information, ly cared about me as a player and perLast January, then, after just eight people are prone to draw their own conson at that university, then they would games, Carter was released from the clusions, and in such situations, those have looked into it. It hurts that they team, made public by a three-para- conclusions don't often reflect well on didn't, but at the same time I am glad graph news release from the Seattle U. the kid who was kicked off the team. it did happen, because I am here now. I athletic department, the last of those Carter knows this. feel like Purdue is really appreciative of paragraphs being template fodder urg"Everyone thought it was sometheir players and student-athletes. I am ing fans to buy tickets to the Redhawks' thing that I did, like I got into it with very blessed. I try not to think about it as upcoming game or listen on the radio. (Dollar) or walked out on practice," much, but sometimes it does come back That was it. Carter said. "That's sad, because I around." With the minimal media attention have never been a person to do anyAfter beginning his college career at Seattle's low-major program receives thing like that. Never once had we f IllustrateD volume 24, issue 2 33