7-1 center from Sudan joins WVU’s melting pot
MORGANTOWN – I can't help wondering who is going to interpret the first conversation between Turkey’s Deniz Kilicli, the Sudan’s David Nyarsuk, Brooklyn’s Truck Bryant and Poca’s Noah Cottrill when all four are presumably together on next year’s West Virginia basketball team.
I would say fuggedaboudit, but can you imagine how that would translate into Kilicli’s Turkish, Nyarsuk’s French or Arabic (he speaks both) or Cottrill’s (and anyone else who was raised here) West Virginian? Bryant’s Brooklynese? Now that’s a different story. And hey, if Jersey’s Da’Sean Butler sticks around long enough to pass the torch, well, then certainly he could help.
Or maybe Joe Herber can come back. He spoke four languages when he arrived in Morgantown. Who knows how many he’s picked up since then?
Not that this is unusual in college basketball these days. It’s not. There has been a foreign influence in the game for decades. It’s even been a hit-or-miss proposition at West Virginia.
