Nice that Drake explicitly stated Go to Virginia to play basketball for Tony Bennett…
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So basically Tony wouldn’t have let him play FB?
London had the option to play both at UVA. But if he had came here it would have been for basketball and you can’t really be a basketball player first while playing football.
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After Saturday’s events Im okay with the set up of having Reed Sheppard and George Washington III’s visits not being on weekends where we have home football games…
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TB knew our football was fake news… he always knows
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maybe football team needs more Lacrosse players…
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Matt Blundin says, “Hello!” 
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Blundin was football first…
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sort of
As I recall, Blundin didn’t play football his freshman year.
And his stats show that he came close to playing a full basketball schedule most years:
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kinda my point. Matty B wanted to play both sports and was an elite QB outta HS. Penn State said no but George and Coach Holland said yes please. So he had big years in hoops before really big year and change in football… maybe the best leader I have ever played with
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If I remember the sequence correctly, Blundin committed to Penn State to play football, and was informed he could not play basketball. He then de-committed, and committed to Virginia to play basketball. I cannot recall when he joined the football team, but I am certain it was after his first year. Among other things, he played a final year of football after completing his basketball eligibility.
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Yes. He told us on his podcast that it was a scholarship thing so he could effectively redshirt for football while playing basketball on hoops scholarship freeing one up for the football team.
Reason he de commited from PSU was he wanted to play both sports
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Blundin was also the early 90’s and college sports have changed rather significantly since then (no offense Fresh). Has anyone done it at an ACC level school in recent memory? Was Julius Peppers the last one?
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No offense at all when someone recognises the sports were better in the 90s ACC my man
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Peppers was legit at both.
I have to think the scheduling is a lot tougher now as well. With most football teams playing 13 games and their season leaking into early January and basketball conference play beginning in Nov, it’s not ideal to bring someone in that late.
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I think that two sport stars have always been rare. I think Bob Davis played both football and basketball in the 60s. When I was in school, there was a someone (Jay ???) who played both soccer and lacrosse. Frank Quayle played football and lacrosse, if I am not mistaken. (For that matter, Jim Brown was an All American in both at Syracuse.) Louis Collins played one year of basketball after completing his football eligibility. I also believe that there was an football lineman on the basketball team in the 60s, but that might have been before the BB program had a fully funded complement of scholarships. I am unsure about this, and would welcome any corrections. I don’t think the fact that two sport players are rare is something new.
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Agree. You still see some fall-spring two sport athletes. Kyler Murray being the most recent prominent example and our own Jay Woofolk hopefully doing the same. I guess fall-winter has alway been incredibly rare but as BDragon pointed out above the longer football season makes it even harder now.
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The Fall spring connection is still fairly strong and likely the most common. Bo, Dion, Westbrook, Murray all proved it can be done across a few different eras.
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