Best Football Player to 3 Sport Star in College?

storminspank

storminspank

Justin VanLaere
Who would it be?

Which player would have the most success on the collegiate level in football, basketball, and baseball?
 


What leads to this question beyond general curiousity? Do you have individuals in mind? Thinking about Iowa players you would think McNutt or Sash would fare decently. However the time needed for even one sport is overwhelming.
 




storminspank said:
Who would it be?

Which player would have the most success on the collegiate level in football, basketball, and baseball?
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Are you talking Iowa? Bo Porter comes to mind, since he played baseball and football very well at Iowa, and then MLB for some time. I would only assume he could play BB.

Otherwise, Bo Jackson.

Quite coincidental both are named Bo.
 


storminspank said:
Who would it be?

Which player would have the most success on the collegiate level in football, basketball, and baseball?
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A couple that come to mind.

Charlie Ward (Florida State)- Played Football, Basketball and Baseball
Lead the Seminoles to the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 in back-to-back years and eventually breaking the school record for steals. But he also was the quarterback for the football team… and he won the Heisman trophy.

Dave Winfield (Minnesota)– Baseball/Basketball/Football
Dave Winfield is the only person to ever get drafted into three different pro sports leagues.

Jim Thorpe – [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4KZ8JgiLv4"]Football[/ame]/[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-hmsxznWMw"]Track[/ame]/[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm9t-jjjLas"]Basketball[/ame]/Baseball
Thorpe was selected the Athlete of the Century and is considered by many to be the greatest athlete to ever live.
 


I thought this was a current Hawkeye question. If we are talking all time NCAA, then Dave Winfield-Minnesota or Brad Van Pelt- Michigan State...hands down.
 






CoolRunnin66 said:
What leads to this question beyond general curiousity? Do you have individuals in mind? Thinking about Iowa players you would think McNutt or Sash would fare decently. However the time needed for even one sport is overwhelming.
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It's just hypothetical, just trying to get a bearing on the thoughts as who was the most rounded athlete (i.e. - could excel at other sports).
 






How good was Vandenberg at basketball? Because I could see him being dominant on the mound with that arm.
 


clicheusername3 said:
I think Sash could be a good defender in basketball just like football...I could also see him being a solid outfielder in baseball.
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wasn't Sash the player that Kirk saw at a high school basketball game and saw how athletic he was and them offered him?
 




cibula11 said:
wasn't Sash the player that Kirk saw at a high school basketball game and saw how athletic he was and them offered him?
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generally all of these guys are multi-sport stars in high school and if you are athletic enough to play D1 football, most likely you are an athlete, period. Look at the OT from Denison. Pitched in baseball state tourney last year, tops in field events, excelled as center for basketball team, played QB for football team his sophomore year. Big and strong? Yes. Very athletic? Definitely.
 
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Rusty Larue- Was a 3 sport star at Wake Forest in the late 80's........got himself ring with the Bulls in the nineties.


Danan Hughes- good football and baseball player for the Hawks in the early nineties.


I suppose I'd better answer the question the way stormin wants so I would say Mcnutt. He is already good football and bball player.......I'm assuming because he played the qb position, he has a decent arm and given his size I would think he could be a good rightfeilder or left hand relief pitcher.
 


imported_ankle23 said:
generally all of these guys are multi-sport stars in high school and if you are athletic enough to play D1 football, most likely you are an athlete, period. Look at the OT from Denison. Pitched in baseball state tourney last year, tops in field events, excelled as center for basketball team, played QB for football team his sophomore year. Big and strong? Yes. Very athletic? Definitely.
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This is true. My dad used to say that Tork Hook (for whom I'm named for, he's a family friend) threw around 85 off the mound. He also said that Tork didn't get his lower body into his pitches. He was just throwing with his arm and getting it up to 85. If he'd really focused on baseball instead of football and basketball, he would have been flat-out dominant.
 


tm3308 said:
This is true. My dad used to say that Tork Hook (for whom I'm named for, he's a family friend) threw around 85 off the mound. He also said that Tork didn't get his lower body into his pitches. He was just throwing with his arm and getting it up to 85. If he'd really focused on baseball instead of football and basketball, he would have been flat-out dominant.
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Plus Tork was a STUD on the track too. The guy could fly.
 




If the MLS Soccer League was around back when Tavian Banks was growing up he just might have cashed in gone on to play soccer. He was that good.


As a senior at Bettendorf High, Banks attracted the attention of collegiate soccer powers such as Clemson, Creighton and Virginia. Banks, a forward, played on a U.S. Soccer regional team and, according to former Wisconsin coach Jim Launder, could have made the under-23 national squad from whence came the 1996 Olympic team. "He was unbelievable," says Launder, now at Dayton. "He could take a man on and beat him."
 


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