Which IU Hoops star would make a good prospect on the Gridiron?
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Re: Not a star....but Devin Davis
Do we send a guy to the football field who already had a traumatic brain injury?
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Do we send a guy to the football field who already had a traumatic brain injury?
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Not current, but Scott May was on an O$U recruiting visit
as a FB recruit when he saw IU play. He was a 1st team all-state TE. O$U took the recruits to the IU-O$U basketball game and May said when he saw the motion offense, he fell in love with it. The rest is history.
Of course Quinn Buckner was 2nd team All Big-10 as a Safety before Knight told him it was either football or basketball.
as a FB recruit when he saw IU play. He was a 1st team all-state TE. O$U took the recruits to the IU-O$U basketball game and May said when he saw the motion offense, he fell in love with it. The rest is history.
Of course Quinn Buckner was 2nd team All Big-10 as a Safety before Knight told him it was either football or basketball.
Steve Risley; Wayne Radford; Bob Wilkerson;and Rich Valavicius
Risley was an all-state QB at 6'8 and "Rich Vicious" was a fb star in Hammond. Wilkerson would have made a great WR and Radford had the body of a TE.
Risley was an all-state QB at 6'8 and "Rich Vicious" was a fb star in Hammond. Wilkerson would have made a great WR and Radford had the body of a TE.
+1.... Would have been a great TE in the NFL **
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This post was edited on 2/14 10:48 AM by FamousShoes22
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His SR. year he was considered the best FB AND BB player in the country...
,.... by many. I can tell you first hand he WAS the best football player in Indianapolis or Indiana that year. We played Washington HS in the 2nd or 3rd game of every season and McGinnis would murder us... he was fast, elusive, great hands (every game he would snag at least 1 or 2 bullet passes over the middle with ONE hand), powerfull.... it would take at least two to three guys to get him to the ground.... and tough!
I've said it ever since... the best High School player I've ever played against or witnessed in person.. and I've seen in person more than a few who ended up to be great ones.
,.... by many. I can tell you first hand he WAS the best football player in Indianapolis or Indiana that year. We played Washington HS in the 2nd or 3rd game of every season and McGinnis would murder us... he was fast, elusive, great hands (every game he would snag at least 1 or 2 bullet passes over the middle with ONE hand), powerfull.... it would take at least two to three guys to get him to the ground.... and tough!
I've said it ever since... the best High School player I've ever played against or witnessed in person.. and I've seen in person more than a few who ended up to be great ones.
Come All Without - Come All Within
You've not seen nothin' like the Mighty Quinn
It took a 31 game win streak to make me like Coach Knight again after Buckner quit football.
Little noted note - we got even later with Randle-El, who "got permission" from Coach Knight to play football after committing to IU for hoops first.
You've not seen nothin' like the Mighty Quinn
It took a 31 game win streak to make me like Coach Knight again after Buckner quit football.
Little noted note - we got even later with Randle-El, who "got permission" from Coach Knight to play football after committing to IU for hoops first.
You sure about that?
I'm pretty sure Antwaan committed to Mallory. His brother, Curtis Randle El, was already a DB.
I just remember ARE playing BB his freshman year and, while he had skills, he still looked like a football player playing basketball.
"The Mighty Quinn" still gets my blood going when I hear it.
I'm pretty sure Antwaan committed to Mallory. His brother, Curtis Randle El, was already a DB.
I just remember ARE playing BB his freshman year and, while he had skills, he still looked like a football player playing basketball.
"The Mighty Quinn" still gets my blood going when I hear it.
Got It From A Chicago Tribune Article
1997:
"Thornton's talented point guard/quarterback, Antwaan Randle El, has made an oral commitment to Indiana, where he has received permission from basketball coach Bob Knight to pursue both sports. "At first he didn't like the idea," Randle El said. "He told me to send him some football videotapes. After he watched the tapes, he said I could play both sports. I'll probably play just (football) my freshman year and both as a sophomore." According to Indiana's sports information office, only a handful of Indiana athletes have played both sports since 1972, when ex-Thornridge great Quinn Buckner was a two-sport star."
His brother was here playing for Cam, and we got ARE in part because he was what we called a "non-qualifier" back then, Cam was tight with Coach Knight and both wanted him.
1997:
"Thornton's talented point guard/quarterback, Antwaan Randle El, has made an oral commitment to Indiana, where he has received permission from basketball coach Bob Knight to pursue both sports. "At first he didn't like the idea," Randle El said. "He told me to send him some football videotapes. After he watched the tapes, he said I could play both sports. I'll probably play just (football) my freshman year and both as a sophomore." According to Indiana's sports information office, only a handful of Indiana athletes have played both sports since 1972, when ex-Thornridge great Quinn Buckner was a two-sport star."
His brother was here playing for Cam, and we got ARE in part because he was what we called a "non-qualifier" back then, Cam was tight with Coach Knight and both wanted him.
Kind of an oddly worded blurb. I do know Knight told him
he could play BB, but he went to IU on a FB scholarship.
I remember him playing and dribbling downcourt and made some move on a defender - he looked like he was high-stepping into the endzone. I laughed about that for a long time.
No doubt he could have been an awesome BB player if he had chosen that sport to concentrate on.
he could play BB, but he went to IU on a FB scholarship.
I remember him playing and dribbling downcourt and made some move on a defender - he looked like he was high-stepping into the endzone. I laughed about that for a long time.
No doubt he could have been an awesome BB player if he had chosen that sport to concentrate on.
Not sure when the rule started but
But if an athlete plays two sports now and one of them is football, they have to use a football scholarship, I believe. I remember it being an issue a while back when some of the football players were also doing track in the Spring. They couldn't be on Track Scholarship as a way of getting around the football scholly limits
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But if an athlete plays two sports now and one of them is football, they have to use a football scholarship, I believe. I remember it being an issue a while back when some of the football players were also doing track in the Spring. They couldn't be on Track Scholarship as a way of getting around the football scholly limits
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remember back in the mid 60s, when the local newspaper (Bloomington H-T) mentioned how IU's football staff drooled over the Van Arsdales.
Ken Johnson, a standout PF-C on IU's bball team in the late 60s, started for the Cincinnati Bengals for several yrs on their D line, after not playing fball at all at IU.
others here have mentioned McGinnis, May, Buckner.
i'm guessing Daryl Thomas didn't go un-noticed by the fball staff.
played against Cam Cameron down at the HPER a couple times. pretty sure he was all state in basketball, as well as the Trester award winner iirc.
Mike Davis had a guy here on his later teams, (can't remember name), from Alabama, who looked like he would have been a heck of a fballer.
Indy Colts O lineman Joe Reitz didn't play football in college, but was the 3rd leading all time scorer and rebounder in bball at W. Mich.
i wonder what, if any, percent of the types we mention who grow up in the south, go fball instead of bball?
Ken Johnson, a standout PF-C on IU's bball team in the late 60s, started for the Cincinnati Bengals for several yrs on their D line, after not playing fball at all at IU.
others here have mentioned McGinnis, May, Buckner.
i'm guessing Daryl Thomas didn't go un-noticed by the fball staff.
played against Cam Cameron down at the HPER a couple times. pretty sure he was all state in basketball, as well as the Trester award winner iirc.
Mike Davis had a guy here on his later teams, (can't remember name), from Alabama, who looked like he would have been a heck of a fballer.
Indy Colts O lineman Joe Reitz didn't play football in college, but was the 3rd leading all time scorer and rebounder in bball at W. Mich.
i wonder what, if any, percent of the types we mention who grow up in the south, go fball instead of bball?
