在进入北卡的第一年里,帕金斯在NCAA联盟里曾经犯过很多次愚蠢的错误。曾有一次,北卡大学将要对阵乔治亚大学,帕金斯在赛前接受记者采访时,甚至不知道乔治亚大学隶属的赛区。“乔治亚?他们是在哪个赛区啊?”他这样向身旁的人问道。他还曾经表示,自己压根就没听过 Perkins made many stupid mistakes in the NCAA alliance during his first year in North Carolina. There was a time when North Carolina was going to face Georgia and Perkins did not even know the division where the University of Georgia was in when he was interviewed by reporters before the race. “Georgia, where are they in?” He asked the man beside him. He also said that he had never heard of it