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To play both in today's competitive landscape, you'd have to be a Bo Jackson or Deon Sanders type of freak athlete where one sport comes so naturally it requires little practice.

Is she an All SEC type volleyball player with very little in season practice and minimal game prep? Because that's what it would take. 100% basketball and make volleyball fit.
 
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Based on the super limited number of women who've ever been successful two-sport athletes at a P5 school, I'd think it's a fairly safe bet that Hurst will, sooner rather than later, find it necessary to choose one.

College is hard enough without having to find time for studying while practicing and playing and often traveling for ONE sport, much less do it for two.

I thought I wanted to be a two-sport athlete, too. Until I effed around and found out! 😅

But seriously. Experience is the best teacher, so I hope she has had opportunities to speak with women who've done it in the past.
 
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37620VOL said:
To play both in today's competitive landscape, you'd have to be a Bo Jackson or Deon Sanders type of freak athlete where one sport comes so naturally it requires little practice.

Is she an All SEC type volleyball player with very little in season practice and minimal game prep? Because that's what it would take. 100% basketball and make volleyball fit.
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But that's the point. There aren't a lot of Travis Hunter two-way players in college football, either, but there ya go.

No one is saying that it would be a common occurrence. But if a Candace Parker type with mad volleyball skills wanted to do both and proved that she could pull it off successfully and could help both teams be national contenders, why not?

It would also be a major publicity boost for recruiting with all the eyeballs.

It's just a hypothetical. Been done before even if rarely.
 
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creekdipper said:
But that's the point. There aren't a lot of Travis Hunter two-way players in college football, either, but there ya go.

No one is saying that it would be a common occurrence. But if a Candace Parker type with mad volleyball skills wanted to do both and proved that she could pull it off successfully and could help both teams be national contenders, why not?

It would also be a major publicity boost for recruiting with all the eyeballs.

It's just a hypothetical. Been done before even if rarely.
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It could be just as simple that both coaches are willing to get her talent HERE and find out which skill set BEST translates to this level, IF there is not a compatible mix. A cooperative effort from all three IS possible. First year could give them all some real answers as well. She can be an LVFL multiple ways.

Risk/reward decisions involved by all three. Just hope we don’t find out down the road one Coach soured the deal and she chose a more flexible situation on her way to AA status elsewhere. BUT I also understand scholarship allocation calculations.

Is there a Bear Bryant type rule for these sports that would dictate which sport has to absorb the scholly? Would love to be a fly on the wall in the room with the two coaches and AD.
 
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alexvol said:
So Deerpark knows that every coach in the country would not allow a player to play both Basketball and Volleyball....that sir is impossible to know.
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I have no doubt that some schools have tried to promise that, but NC State was recruiting her as a volleyball athlete first. At Clemson, volleyball took the lead in the recruiting process when the basketball coaching change happened.

Volleyball coaches will do/say what they can because any two-sport athlete counts against the scholarship limit of the first sport in the calendar, so she would be on a volleyball scholarship if allowed to try both. So the volleyball coach has all of the power and control in the relationship, which is why no basketball coach is going to allow it.
 
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creekdipper said:
If an athlete is a game-changer with All-American talent in both sports, pretty sure that plenty of coaches would be willing to make exceptions. It would be exceedingly arrogant and stupid to do otherwise.
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Outside of a sprinter in track and field, tell me the last SEC two-sport athlete that was an All-American in either.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
Outside of a sprinter in track and field, tell me the last SEC two-sport athlete that was an All-American in either.
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Some of these are All-Americans: Joe Gibson, Jake Gibbs, John Hannah, Jimmy Hitchcock, Todd Helton, Butch Hobson, Dixie Howell, Bo Jackson, Jermey Parnell, Chad Jones, Ken Stabler…. lots more.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
I have no doubt that some schools have tried to promise that, but NC State was recruiting her as a volleyball athlete first. At Clemson, volleyball took the lead in the recruiting process when the basketball coaching change happened.

Volleyball coaches will do/say what they can because any two-sport athlete counts against the scholarship limit of the first sport in the calendar, so she would be on a volleyball scholarship if allowed to try both. So the volleyball coach has all of the power and control in the relationship, which is why no basketball coach is going to allow it.
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That is to assume that Coaches are irrational like fans. Bet the AD will factor in to how and what both coaches can promise and execute if she signs on. Losing a nearby national prospect for the school by not being a team player will be frowned upon. If she wants options she should get options. Lots of variables in her future.
 
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