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re: Ben McDonald...I didn't realize that he was at LSU on a Hoops scholarship
Posted on 6/4/25 at 10:12 am to SouthernInsanity
Posted on 6/4/25 at 10:12 am to SouthernInsanity
I thought this was satirizing that he tells this story on nearly every broadcast 
ETA to be fair it’s usually brought up by the play by play guy
ETA to be fair it’s usually brought up by the play by play guy
This post was edited on 6/4/25 at 10:13 am
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Posted on 6/4/25 at 10:26 am to SammyTiger
quote:
i think there is a heirAchy of scholarships if you’re on 2 teams which one counts otherwise ever DB and WR would get a track scholarship because who really cares about T&F if you can get a bunch of extra scholarships for a money maker
I know there is a rule for football that every player on scholarship counts toward the football scholarship limit for just that reason. Bear Bryant used to put players on scholarship in other sports like you suggested, so the rules were changed to cut off that loophole. You could be correct that the same rule applies to basketball or it may just be that it allowed McDonald to get a full scholarship without using up a big chunk of the baseball allotment.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 10:30 am to MikeTheTiger71
Dave Neal and Big Ben will be back calling our Super this weekend.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 10:48 am to Metaloctopus
quote:nonsense.
Most games are not that long, and you don't need to fill space.
Baseball is a very slow game, with little action. That's just the nature of the game.
So TV commentators absolutely have to fill time.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 10:54 am to SouthernInsanity
Hopefully we get Dave Neal and Ben McDonald on the call again this weekend. They are great
Posted on 6/4/25 at 10:59 am to TigerCub
quote:
Dave Neal and Big Ben will be back calling our Super this weekend.
Kind of crazy they didn’t put him on the broadcast much during the 2023 run. I remember one of Skenes big postseason starts they had him on some other random game
This post was edited on 6/4/25 at 10:59 am
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:00 am to SouthernInsanity
I’m just curious why 53 people made the conscious decision to downvote this post.
Im fully aware there’s prob a lot of fat sausage fingers posters on here but 53 seems excessive.
I heard him say it this past week too on tv.
Didn’t know it either.
Im fully aware there’s prob a lot of fat sausage fingers posters on here but 53 seems excessive.
I heard him say it this past week too on tv.
Didn’t know it either.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:00 am to ElRoos
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They are great
Ben needs to get into the cliche thesaurus though, he's about worn out his current repertoire
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:15 am to Metaloctopus
When you call the game of a team many times in a season and have to fill 3 hours + of time p, virtually impossible to not repeat yourself numerous times from game to game
Posted on 6/4/25 at 11:24 am to SouthernInsanity
He's also an avid outdoorsman 
Posted on 6/4/25 at 12:11 pm to Sun God
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Apparently he threw 221 pitches in one of his HS games
Ben was thought of as the next Nolan Ryan , a workhorse pitcher that could throw as much as you needed him to.
Then he became the poster boy for not overthrowing your pitchers. He is a big part of why pitch counts and all that started being a thing.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 12:22 pm to SouthernInsanity
Not sure if this is still the case but it was “back in the day”. If a player was a two sport athlete with baseball being one of the sports, the scholarship would have to come from the other sport. It was designed to keep schools from utilizing baseball to add players to their other sport’s rosters basically.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 2:07 pm to SouthernInsanity
He was also the punter/kicker on his HS FB team
Posted on 6/4/25 at 2:57 pm to Sailor Sam
also all state golfer .
Posted on 6/4/25 at 3:04 pm to Jimmy Bags
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He's also an avid outdoorsman
His first spring training in the MLB, Ben found and caught an alligator near the hotel and put it in the bathtub so his roommate would find it.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 3:22 pm to SouthernInsanity
Sorry if this was already posted, didn't find it...
Good bar bet.
Name 2 #1 overall draft picks coached by Dale Brown
Everyone will get Shaq and then offer Roberts, Jackson, Swift, etc.
Few will name Ben McDonald.
Good bar bet.
Name 2 #1 overall draft picks coached by Dale Brown
Everyone will get Shaq and then offer Roberts, Jackson, Swift, etc.
Few will name Ben McDonald.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 3:32 pm to Ponchy Tiger
Pretty sure I'd listen to Ben read the phone book.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 4:07 pm to hayden7cub
quote:
Not sure if this is still the case but it was “back in the day”. If a player was a two sport athlete with baseball being one of the sports, the scholarship would have to come from the other sport. It was designed to keep schools from utilizing baseball to add players to their other sport’s rosters basically.
Its more because baseball has only had partial scholarships (11.7 total scholarships to be spread through the whole team) . Better players would get a higher percentage than others but full scholarships were very rare. The full scholarship sports would typically have to cover the scholly for dual sport athletes
Of course this is all changing in the near future due to the restructuring with NIL etc
This post was edited on 6/4/25 at 4:08 pm
Posted on 6/4/25 at 4:12 pm to 777Tiger
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quote:, I didn't realize that he was at LSU on a BB scholarship. I thought he was on a baseball scholarship don’t believe he was, maybe, but I think one year just about all of the team caught the flu and we almost didn’t have enough players to field a team and he stepped up, obviously played in hs
Consider this a reminder to approach information found on the internet, particularly on forums, with a healthy dose of skepticism.
Posted on 6/4/25 at 4:27 pm to TexasTiger89
I dated a girl in college who's dad kept a few baby alligators in a little enclosed habitat in his back yard. Weird dude.
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