Benjamin Picks Up Offer from UL

[Bandwagon King]

_ I have to disagree. There have been a few examples given here, and not that I want to bring them up, but LSU has had a couple of guys that were very successful in both football and baseball recently.




igeaux.mobi _

Anybody ever hear of Lyle Mouton & I forget the name of the BB player, but that was when they played gorilla ball & had a great BB program.

[Boomer]

_ mr. fisher? _

Not sure but Leanord Klienpeter lettered in Football, baseball, and track!!!!!

[zephyr]

_ The guy is 6-5 for Jesus' sake. How big does he need to get? He's already playing all sports & is obviously excelling if he's being recruited in basketball & track. I just don't buy that he can't play mor than one sport. _

In high school, you can succeed greatly with athletic ability alone. In college, its completely different. The thing is, nobody truly knows how good he will be so its hard to just let him try to play both when you have no idea what type of impact he would have on either sport here.

Second, there is way too much overlap for basketball and football. You hopefully finish football deep in December and then have to turn around to play basketball which runs into two months of spring football again. It's not feasible. We've also got some serious height in the WR corp coming in with just about all of our WR's from this class alone over 6"2 except for Efrem Reed and Montrell Carter who are more specialists anyway.

[Bandwagon King]

_ In high school, you can succeed greatly with athletic ability alone. In college, its completely different. The thing is, nobody truly knows how good he will be so its hard to just let him try to play both when you have no idea what type of impact he would have on either sport here.

Second, there is way too much overlap for basketball and football. You hopefully finish football deep in December and then have to turn around to play basketball which runs into two months of spring football again. It's not feasible. We've also got some serious height in the WR corp coming in with just about all of our WR's from this class alone over 6"2 except for Efrem Reed and Montrell Carter who are more specialists anyway. _

I think you're missing the main point. Let's say you have a guy who may be a good enough athelete to be recruited by the major schools on one sport or another, but wants to play two sports. Are you going to give him an opportunity to fulfill his dream & have a chance to latch onto that special player, or do you try to bigtime him & tell him we are going to hard sell you like the big boys? You can either get the player or watch him walk. What do you do?

[cajunkrewe]

I think they should let him try and if they feel after a year or so playing two sports is not working out then ask him to pick one. This way he stays a Cajun.

[SlappyCajun]

Maybe he's not even good enough to play Division I basketball. Not every 6'5 guy walking the street can play Division I.

[Big Buds]

_ Anybody ever hear of Lyle Mouton & I forget the name of the BB player, but that was when they played gorilla ball & had a great BB program. _

He was one of the great ones to play at sTm! I know who your talking about.

[Bandwagon King]

_ Maybe he's not even good enough to play Division I basketball. Not every 6'5 guy walking the street can play Division I. _

This is possible. It is also possible that he is the next Michael Jordan. You don't become a three sport letterman at a four A state championship level high school as a junior & not have very special skills. You also don't get recruited by multiple schools in multiple sports & not have very special skills. So do you allow a potentially huge contributor to your total atheletic success walk because you don't want to let him play both.

This is starting to sound like the old Brett Favre argument.

[wcd35]

_ This is possible. It is also possible that he is the next Michael Jordan. You don't become a three sport letterman at a four A state championship level high school as a junior & not have very special skills. You also don't get recruited by multiple schools in multiple sports & not have very special skills. So do you allow a potentially huge contributor to your total atheletic success walk because you don't want to let him play both.

This is starting to sound like the old Brett Favre argument. _

Lets just wait a little bit and find out just how many programs are willing to offer him a 2 sport spot before we all get whiny about us not possibly offering that chance.

[SlappyCajun]

_ This is possible. It is also possible that he is the next Michael Jordan. You don't become a three sport letterman at a four A state championship level high school as a junior & not have very special skills. You also don't get recruited by multiple schools in multiple sports & not have very special skills. So do you allow a potentially huge contributor to your total atheletic success walk because you don't want to let him play both.

This is starting to sound like the old Brett Favre argument. _

Right, but I haven't heard of anyone offering the kid in basketball.