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“One thing I’d like to make clear is that our family is not rich,” Barry says. “My brother’s a billionaire, but my wife and I get up and go to work every morning.” Barry works in the fitness-equipment manufacturing industry. Gayle has a career in education. “It was quite a financial consideration for us to decide to pay for his college education,” Barry says.
Wouldn’t it have been easier on Spencer if he had taken one of those other school’s scholarships and spent his college years in a place where the name Laurie isn’t synonymous with royalty?
“I can tell you that Minnesota and North Carolina State sure talked to him a lot about that,” says Spencer’s father, Barry Laurie, laughing. Spencer seriously considered both Minnesota and NC State before deciding to sign with Missouri.
“We can’t imagine a kid growing up in Missouri and not wanting to play basketball for Quin Snyder at MU,” Barry says. “That’s how the Laurie family looks at it.”