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88 percent of the 2015 first round NFL picks played multiple sports in high school
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:33 pm
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:33 pm
And people are still pushing early specialization in sports.
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This post was edited on 5/6/15 at 5:18 pm
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Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:36 pm to tigerskin
Running track counts as multiple sports, which has a direct correlation to football.
I wonder how many play football and baseball.
I wonder how many play football and baseball.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:37 pm to tigerskin
What about MLB? MLS? NBA? NHL? Sample size is small here.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:37 pm to lsutigers1992
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I wonder how many play football and baseball.
I'd think football and basketball would have the most dual-athletes
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:37 pm to lsutigers1992
5, or 15 percent played baseball
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:38 pm to lsutigers1992
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Running track counts as multiple sports
Well, it's a different sport sooooooo, no shite.
Specialization to one sport at young ages is terrible and only terrible parents would push this on their kids.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:39 pm to tigerskin
Probably has more to do with the first round picks being super fricking athletic than anything about "specialization"
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:39 pm to tigerskin
22 did track. 14 played basketball
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:40 pm to boom roasted
Adam provost twitter. Gotta go
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:41 pm to ProjectP2294
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Well, it's a different sport sooooooo, no shite.
But it's not really that different. That's my point. It's a spring sport, usually coached by football coaches who basically use it as an opportunity to work with their football players during the dead period for football.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:43 pm to tigerskin
Is that from this year or over time?
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:45 pm to lsutigers1992
I think my freshman year out coaches told everyone that they had to play a second sport
Of course they had no way to enforce that
Of course they had no way to enforce that
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:46 pm to lsu31always
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What about MLB?
From my knowledge I'd say a good amount of the American born players played other sports in high school.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:51 pm to tigerskin
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88 percent of the first round NFL picks played multiple sports in high school
And people are still pushing early specialization in sports.
It's because first round pick are great athletes...not because playing multiple sports necessarily assisted in them being first round picks.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:57 pm to tigerskin
Did you know jimmy graham played basketball in college ?
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:57 pm to moneyg
Yeh I can see this for football and basketball. I bet .05% of pro tennis players played multiple sports after turning 14
Posted on 5/6/15 at 4:58 pm to tigerskin
I remember Buck Showalter saying the same thing about baseball players. He said travel squads and kids playing baseball year round were terrible for the sport. They don't become as well rounded athletically and pitchers become more prone to arm injuries with no off-season to rest. The only reason for an athlete to concentrate on one sport is if there's financial incentives in play such as money or a scholarship.
Posted on 5/6/15 at 5:16 pm to tigerskin
Boom
Posted on 5/6/15 at 5:35 pm to tigerskin
I don't get it, is this supposed to be surprising?
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