re: Safety position

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Maybe Hampton needs to pick one sport, because it seems to me he's not excelling in either one at the moment

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I disagree. As much as we all love Chad Jones as the premier two sport athlete, the reality is that he only pitched 6 innings and had 35 at bats in 2009. They were all exciting but he wasn't some huge contributor in both sports as many think. Same goes for Jared Mitchell, he did not contribute to the football team in any real way. His best year was 2007 with 13 catches.

Back to Hampton. Freshman year of football he barely played until the end of the year and flashed while he was on the field. Freshman year of baseball started slow but that would be expected given the fact that the football team played until mid Jan (Natty) and then the season was cut to only 17 games.

Soph football year, day 1 starter after not having off season program and was part of the worst coached defenses that we have ever seen. Communication was non existent and I don't blame any single player for the performance of 2020. Pelini was paid over 6mil to leave for a reason. Soph season of baseball is 3 games in. The idea that he would walk into the starting line up in general is just dumb. The goal with these type of two sport athletes is to get them up to speed mid way through the year. Still has plenty of time and from what I saw this weekend, no one should think he doesn't have a path to eventually take a starting spot or be a heavy rotational player by mid year.

Well his scholarship is in FB and I don't see him leaving baseball as good as he was out of high school.