Dame sarr to Duke. 
. I mean puke
. I mean puke
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what i don't get is why people would rather have sarr than stojakovic. he's older, more experienced, proven, and very likely the better player.
Tony Gonzalez played basketball and football at Cal.dual sport college players I remember
Charlie Ward FSU (PG/QB) ended up NBA
Julius Pepper UNC (DE/PF) ended up NFL
Illini
Garvin Roberson - really dating myself
All B10 wide receiver was on bball team for 2 years
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It's less common these days, because kids are so specialized but it used to be pretty routine.
Baseball and football have a lot, even some notable ones fairly recently:
Jameis Winston
Kyler Murray
Jeff Samardzija
Classics: (made the pros in both)
Bo Jackson
Deon Sanders
Brian Jordan
HOFers
Jackie Robinson lettered in 4 sports (Baseball, Football, Track (National champ in long jump, and Basketball) at UCLA, ironically, baseball was considered his worst sport at the time.
Tony Gwynn was an all-conference Basketball player in addition to being an All American Baseball player at SDSU. (still SDSU leader in career assists and Assists per game)
Wilt Chamberlain won the Big 8 championship in the high jump 3 times, and ran the 100m in 10.9 seconds. (WR at the time was 10.1)
More dooly, there are several guys who only played basketball in college and went on to have notable NFL careers at TE:
Antonio Gates
Marcus Pollard
Mo Alie-Cox
I'm missing scores of them but these guys are the first ones that come to mind for me.
Most of us probably never heard of Stojakovic until about a month ago (or rather him as a possibility). We had heard about Sarr ever since November/December (or sometime middle of the season) as more or less a "done deal." Obviously it wasn't a done deal, but it's tough for some to turn away from that. 100% if I were a gambling man would take Stoj to have the better year this year (and possibly next year) for the reasons you listed.
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Roomed across the hall from Garvin freshman year. Nice guy, great athlete, but hardly 6’4”.dual sport college players I remember
Charlie Ward FSU (PG/QB) ended up NBA
Julius Pepper UNC (DE/PF) ended up NFL
Illini
Garvin Roberson - really dating myself
All B10 wide receiver was on bball team for 2 years
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i've said it before, would rather take storr to have the better year this year.
If you could have him for a second year...then maybe. Likely one and done. Stoj I would expect to be better this year for us.
Illwinsagain
- Cary, IL
D has a lot of very talented young players coming in. We know how that works right!
has a lot of very talented young players coming in. We know how that works right!Check out some video on Mihailo Petrovic. I think he will deliver on exactly what you’re talking about.
Jim Rucks. Basketball and football punter. And I believe his best sport was baseball.dual sport college players I remember
Charlie Ward FSU (PG/QB) ended up NBA
Julius Pepper UNC (DE/PF) ended up NFL
Illini
Garvin Roberson - really dating myself
All B10 wide receiver was on bball team for 2 years
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illiniswish09
- Northwest Suburbs
Would love a general scoop from our insiders on what transpired with Sarr over the past month or so
Moonlight Graham
Dave Winfield, he was also drafted by all three pro leagues.
we've had more than enough intel. some of you just don't get the picture.
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I'm old (70), but I believe that Quinn Buckner played a lot of basketball, and some football, at Indiana University back in the 1970s.
As a kid in Freeport my dad would tell me all about Preston Pearson, and his older brother Rufus. Rufus was supposedly the better athlete but had some personal challenges along the way.
Not a lot of big time athletes are for former Pretzels (Freeport's mascot) so they were revered. Along with Jamal Meeks who was a few years ahead of me and went to play for Bob Knight at Indiana.
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
I consider myself an enthusiast of multi-sport athletes that compete at least at the collegiate level. Some of my favorites were Ronald Curry who play pg and QB and UNC and later played about 7 years in the NFL. Then there's Kenny Lofton from East Chicago who earned a hoops scholarship to Arizona and played exclusively basketball for the first two years and then returned to baseball. He ended up having a legendary MLB career spanning 17 seasons.
Of course being a Chicago kid I liked Frank Thomas who played TE for Auburn and MJ had the baseball career in the minors, but one of my all-time favorites was John Lucas II. He was an all-American in both basketball and tennis. He played about 14 or 15 yrs in the NBA and also played a little bit of tennis on the pro tour. That is so impressive to me because tennis is one of those sports where you need to dedicate your entire existence towards.
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