This is tremendous… Texas 6-foot-9 baseball signee (setting hoops records)

[GQ03]

16 hours ago, Jordan91 said:

First Dia and now this kid. Why don’t they play freaking basketball!!!!!!!!!

I get the frustration but let's be honest, if they were elite guys that only played basketball they probably would be going to Florida & UConn respectively, that is if Duke didn't want them. Texas Football & Baseball have a pull that basketball doesn't have quite yet.

[Layton_Sharp]

Surely there’s a good chance he never steps foot on campus right? 

[PaulieD]

That's some heat now.........⚾

[Thanos72]

18 hours ago, taxsaver said:

Hmmmm...it's HIS life...and athletes are athletes...they like sports in general and so it's not hard to believe someone would be great in 2 or even more sports...I bet he could be quite the martial artist as well

Neither brain nor maturity is fully formed regardless of what they’re paid. They need good people in their lives to advise them on these matters as parents should to raising good humans. It’s nice in their to just say let them choose what they want. Very few athletes have been truly successful with it. Bo was probably the greatest natural athlete of all time and his body couldn’t handle it. Talk about armor. That dude was 1 of 1 and his body broken down. I know a lot of people don’t like 21 but I do and he was another unworldly athlete that did solidly in baseball but wear and tear started showing up for him as well. It’s biology and physiology not heart and desire.
In high school, elite athletes can wake up and dominate on natural gifts.  In college and pros, specific muscle training for a given sport is often in conflict with another not to include that their bodies never rest or fully heal which is critical to like term health. Maybe basketball and one of the others could work since weight training seems to be less critical and maybe not in conflict but it tears up the knees and joints so it’ll still shorten their career. Also it’s super sad to see these elite bodies kinda broken down later so I could enjoy a sport.

IMHO, choose one once in college. When pro, if that elite, maybe split the career. Football first and then baseball since it has a longer shelf life but not concurrent.

Now, the real question is if he can play left guard immediately?!! 🤘🏽@Joe Zura

Edited 1 hour ago by Thanos72

[Joe Zura]

15 minutes ago, Thanos72 said:

Neither brain nor maturity is fully formed regardless of what they’re paid. They need good people in their lives to advise them on these matters as parents should to raising good humans. It’s nice in their to just say let them choose what they want. Very few athletes have been truly successful with it. Bo was probably the greatest natural athlete of all time and his body couldn’t handle it. Talk about armor. That dude was 1 of 1 and his body broken down. I know a lot of people don’t like 21 but I do and he was another unworldly athlete that did solidly in baseball but wear and tear started showing up for him as well. It’s biology and physiology not heart and desire.
In high school, elite athletes can wake up and dominate on natural gifts.  In college and pros, specific muscle training for a given sport is often in conflict with another not to include that their bodies never rest or fully heal which is critical to like term health. Maybe basketball and one of the others could work since weight training seems to be less critical and maybe not in conflict but it tears up the knees and joints so it’ll still shorten their career. Also it’s super sad to see these elite bodies kinda broken down later so I could enjoy a sport.

IMHO, choose one once in college. When pro, if that elite, maybe split the career. Football first and then baseball since it has a longer shelf life but not concurrent.

Now, the real question is if he can play left guard immediately?!! 🤘🏽@Joe Zura

This guy gets it 🤘🏼🤘🏼😭