How Many Players Have Nattys in Multiple Sports?

While it would have technically been possible for him to get one in baseball as well as football, how likely do you think it is that it would have happened while he was still here?

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Mo Hampton had a chance to breathe that rarefied air. Wished he'd stuck around.

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Unless Mo played on the 2009 baseball team he wasn’t winning a national championship in baseball.

Just another proof that for 99% of the athletes, playing for two sports in college level while maintaining a healthy GPA academically is just too much of a stretch. Had Hampton stuck with one sport from the get-go, I feel like we would be seeing a much different story here. Just unfortunate.

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I so badly wanted to say Bo Jackson, but Auburn never even won a baseball regional while he was there. In 1983, football was named champion by several organizations, but they don't claim it.

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Bama probably went ahead and claimed it for them then.

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Just another proof that for 99% of the athletes, playing for two sports in college level while maintaining a healthy GPA academically is just too much of a stretch. Had Hampton stuck with one sport from the get-go, I feel like we would be seeing a much different story here. Just unfortunate.

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I agree with this.

Mo is a great athlete. But SEC baseball is played at a pretty high level. When I saw him play a year ago in Minutemaid he looked like a natural. But his timing was off batting and he misjudged a ball in the OF.

Had he stayed on the 2-spory track he should have realized it might be his 3rd year in baseball before he's adjusted to this level of play.