The Ultimate Bulldog: Butler’s Dequandre Currence Overcomes All Struggles To Star on Friday Night

One of North Carolina’s most successful football powerhouses isn’t bougie, it’s Butler. It’s a place where the talent is matched by toughness and hype is punctuated with hunger. No one embodies the ‘Butler way’ more than Dequadre Currence. In one of the biggest schools in the state, Currence stars in basketball, runs track, and cuts like a Butler butcher on Friday night. He’s affectionately known as ‘Red’ for the hue in his hair- but it really should be for “red alert: stop him if you can”. Red is resilience. The 16-year-old and his three siblings have been raised by a single mom doing her best, but often, that meant bouncing from one home to another. Red’s mother kept fighting and she raised a fighter- one that is undersized but overwhelmingly grateful. Red is invaluable to Butler as one of the best players in the state, and yet, has no Scholarship offers. Coaches, teammates and opponents agree that needs to change immediately. Until then, as Butler embarks on another magical title run, the entire playoff bracket will be seeing Red.