One of the best examples would be Charlie Ward, who won the Heisman playing qb for Florida St. He played on the hoop team as well, and then played a decade in the NBA. Tony Gonzalez was a key player on some good Cal hoop teams before having a Hall of Fame career in the NFL, and Antonio Gates was a star basketball player in college as well. Sam Clancy practiced with the Pitt football team one spring, but never played. He spent a decade playing pro football.

PS, sounds like a great kid in addition to being a good athlete. Wish him FOUR years of health and success in both sports.
 

duq81 wrote:

One of the best examples would be Charlie Ward, who won the Heisman playing qb for Florida St. He played on the hoop team as well, and then played a decade in the NBA. Tony Gonzalez was a key player on some good Cal hoop teams before having a Hall of Fame career in the NFL, and Antonio Gates was a star basketball player in college as well. Sam Clancy practiced with the Pitt football team one spring, but never played. He spent a decade playing pro football.

 
Who could forget when Bobby Sura, Charlie Ward and a host of great players from Fl State came to Palumbo and they were up by 18 at the half, but John Carrol's Duke's came roaring back to a sold out crowd on a Saturdy afternoon and upset the then 10 TH Ranked Seminoles for a great victory!

Phildog wrote:

duq81 wrote:

One of the best examples would be Charlie Ward, who won the Heisman playing qb for Florida St. He played on the hoop team as well, and then played a decade in the NBA. Tony Gonzalez was a key player on some good Cal hoop teams before having a Hall of Fame career in the NFL, and Antonio Gates was a star basketball player in college as well. Sam Clancy practiced with the Pitt football team one spring, but never played. He spent a decade playing pro football.

 
Who could forget when Bobby Sura, Charlie Ward and a host of great players from Fl State came to Palumbo and they were up by 18 at the half, but John Carrol's Duke's came roaring back to a sold out crowd on a Saturdy afternoon and upset the then 10 TH Ranked Seminoles for a great victory!

Charlie Ward was on that team, but he wasn't there that day. That was during football season, and Ward was at FSU to play football, not basketball. He wouldn't have joined the team until football season was over. Sam Cassell was on that team. He wasn't the star, but he turned out to be a far superior player to Sura in the long run.

ElDuque wrote:

ElDuque wrote:

duq81, am I mistaken or did Matt Cavanaugh and/or Rooster Jones play some hoops at Pitt? I remember seeing those guys in pickup games at the old gym, with Nixon, Larry Harris and others.

 
Joe Kane and Danny Yaniello got to play in some of those games.

I see Joe about once a year.
 

Phildog wrote:

I met Joe DeSantis at a Brewsters in a Shopping Plaza up on the Wexford Flats in the North Hills in the summertime while he was standing in line with his wife and kids, he was a nice guy. He seemed started when I told him I was a Duquesne fan and remembered when he lit it up on us one night long ago when he was in college. I think he played a Fairfield but am too lazy to look it up, I recall we won but Ray Goss was impressed with Joe as a scorer.

On Sura , Donnie ( Gumby) Gambridge told me Duquesne was in the running for Sura until FOrida State offered, then it was lights out for us.

Many thought JC could have done more here, but he always went after the big name players, sometimes to his own peril, re: Danny Forston............

I didn't think JC was a great Xs and Os guy. I think Jim Satalin, who was a good Xs and Os guy, but a poor recruiter, would have won more games with Carroll's roster. Of course, BC damaged his chances with the stupid move to the Mediocre Cornbelt Conference.