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re: Why hasn't there been more 2 sport players at LSU?
Posted on 3/21/24 at 8:29 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
Posted on 3/21/24 at 8:29 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
I'll suggest that:
- At LSU, we're competing at a really high level so it will take a special talent to play multiple sports.
- Some coaches don't like to share.
- The respective overlap between sport seasons militates against it.
- At LSU, we're competing at a really high level so it will take a special talent to play multiple sports.
- Some coaches don't like to share.
- The respective overlap between sport seasons militates against it.
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Posted on 3/21/24 at 8:30 am to Tangineck
In 03’ LSUs football team could have competed with the BBall team. Clayton Spears and Webster could have all been D1 basketball stars.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 8:31 am to BTRtoIAH
Robert Royal played football and basketball
Posted on 3/21/24 at 8:35 am to UncleDuck
He could have been a drafted DB or concentrated on baseball anddone the same
Posted on 3/21/24 at 9:20 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
Lynn Amadee - football and baseball
Posted on 3/21/24 at 9:43 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
Kary Vincent Jr. is the last one I remember. Was pretty fast on the track. Ran a 10.07 if I remember correctly.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 9:43 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
This has gone on long enough.
Mike Miley - GOAT2
Think he was a first rd MLB pick by the Angels and a pretty good QB as well.
Mike Miley - GOAT2
Think he was a first rd MLB pick by the Angels and a pretty good QB as well.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 9:53 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
2 sport athletes, "cross-training" was a big marketing push in the 90s:
Bo Jackson
Michael Jordan
Deion Sanders
For whatever reason, Nike stopped promoting two sport athletes... trickled down to college
Bo Jackson
Michael Jordan
Deion Sanders
For whatever reason, Nike stopped promoting two sport athletes... trickled down to college
Posted on 3/21/24 at 10:03 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
It just isn’t worth it these days
Posted on 3/21/24 at 10:38 am to JimTiger72
Will Reese played baseball and basketball and Ronald Martin played basketball one year
This post was edited on 3/21/24 at 10:39 am
Posted on 3/21/24 at 10:42 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
Craig Burns
Posted on 3/21/24 at 11:28 am to BTRtoIAH
"In 03’ LSUs football team could have competed with the BBall team. Clayton Spears and Webster could have all been D1 basketball stars."
They were suppose to play both since the basketball team had scholarship limits because of something I don't remember. Nick changed his mind because he thought they would be better just concentrating on football. I always said in high school Corey was a better basketball player than football.
They were suppose to play both since the basketball team had scholarship limits because of something I don't remember. Nick changed his mind because he thought they would be better just concentrating on football. I always said in high school Corey was a better basketball player than football.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 11:42 am to NatalbanyTigerFan
At the high school level coaches typically don’t share athletes but rather fight over them.
You do see a lot of football players in track to primarily keep them in shape and academically eligible for fall ball.
Baseball & football stars are rare and elite talents without a skill overlap.
You do see a lot of football players in track to primarily keep them in shape and academically eligible for fall ball.
Baseball & football stars are rare and elite talents without a skill overlap.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 11:44 am to blueridgeTiger
Plus Jeremy Witten:
Football & Baseball
Football & Baseball
Posted on 3/21/24 at 12:13 pm to NatalbanyTigerFan
Josh Booty. Top 5 MLB draft and played QB at LSU.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 12:14 pm to HoustonTigerNKaty
quote:
At the high school level coaches typically don’t share athletes but rather fight over them.
Not at the smaller schools
Posted on 3/21/24 at 12:14 pm to JimTiger72
quote:That's not happening at any school ever!! Seasons overlap, basketball players these days have to train and play year round to gain enough skills to play. You can't be in the gym shooting baskets and doing spring football at the same time. Coaches would never put up with it either.
Would be cool to see a football/basketball guy
Posted on 3/21/24 at 12:31 pm to SammyTiger
quote:
isn’t Green a potential Football Basketball guy?
They say so but I just wonder how that's going to work. If football is successful and makes the playoffs it rolls into January, and then Spring practice is in March. It's feasible in baseball because the season doesn't start til February and Spring practice ends while there's still a lot of baseball to be played, and baseball rosters are much bigger so it's easier to fill in a gap for a few weeks. Whereas basketball starts in November when the most meaningful football is going on and Spring practice is going on when the most meaningful basketball is being played, and missing a guy in basketball is harder to replace because of roster size and the impact one player can make.
Posted on 3/21/24 at 12:52 pm to Tangineck
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Very unlikely you'll ever see this combo again
Isn’t our incoming TE recruit this combo?
Posted on 3/21/24 at 12:57 pm to NatalbanyTigerFan
Chris Jackson
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