After a Patriot League all-rookie campaign in which Lenox scored perhaps the most dramatic basket in the history of the Army- Navy rivalry, he spent two years watching his playing time shrink. 903.Īs for basketball, he and Army coach Zach Spiker butted heads until reaching a kind of détente. Last year, in a class of 1,084, he was ranked No. George Patton, Lenox is a “turnback,” a cadet forced to repeat his plebe year and to graduate late. He flunked two classes as a freshman and almost got kicked out like Gen. Lenox will be the first to tell you he is no genius. But wait: His path there has not been storybook pat. ” It took a bit for her to gather herself. “I figured he’d be learning-disabled and they’d struggle with him,” says Sandy Deutsch, the North Carolina social worker who conducted the home study for that adoption and learned of Max’s achievements only recently. For the couple, though, the baby was a dice hurl for which even the most sympathetic soul had little hope.
