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Corn Elder on a basketball scholarship?

By SEC BUCKEYE -21 October 2012
12 Comments
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Does anyone know if thad matta has offered elder a scholarship playing basketball and could he take it and play football for the bucks without it counting against the numbers for the 2013 class?

Rural Meyer on 21 Oct 2012 - 9:30pm #

No offer, nor do I imagine he will get one.

Triv on 21 Oct 2012 - 9:33pm #

The scholarship would count toward football regardless. If an athlete plays 2 sports it always count toward the sport allowed more scholarships

Sorry Urban, Woody is still my favorite

SEC BUCKEYE on 21 Oct 2012 - 9:33pm #

I think it would be a smart move for both parties.

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SEC BUCKEYE on 21 Oct 2012 - 9:34pm #

Oh thanks for the clarification

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

tennbuckeye19 on 21 Oct 2012 - 9:37pm #

His basketball offers have all come from mid-major level programs.

Buckeye_in_SEC_... on 21 Oct 2012 - 10:24pm #

I can't really see Urban allowing a playmaker to miss so much by playing 2 sports. Like @TennBuckeye said, he's a mid-major basketball talent.

NW Buckeye on 21 Oct 2012 - 11:43pm #

Triv, I went through this with one of our HS Q's who ended up on a baseball scholly at U of Wash. What the football staff told us was that if he walked onto the football team and played before he played a baseball season his scholly would count against football, but if he played a baseball season first the scholly would indeed be in baseball for his entire stay at the school so long as he continued playing baseball. As a result, he did not walk onto the football team as he would have missed his freshman year in order to play. Was a good thing, became the ace on the pitching staff.

Buckeyeneer on 21 Oct 2012 - 11:57pm #

I concure with SEC Buckeye. A guy who went to my high school played for the Bucks in the mid to late 90s. He was recruited to play football (DE) and ended up playing basketball too, drawing the ire of Cooper and being banished to special teams. He ended up starting his senior year but I was told that he had to quit the basketball team.

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Triv on 22 Oct 2012 - 9:10am #

NW Buckeye I did not know that was allowed, good to know

Sorry Urban, Woody is still my favorite

Alex on 22 Oct 2012 - 9:16am #

If Corn was coming to OSU it would be on a football scholarship...he is in talks with Matta about being a walk-on to the basketball team as well and would be someone who could potentially actually see the court down the line if he stuck to hoops while playing football....a lot of prospects come in saying they want to play both, but it doesn't happen usually because of the commitment to a sport like football...Cam Heyward, Terrelle Pryor and some others all talked about walking on to the hoops squad during their careers but once they saw the commitment it took to be great on the gridiron, they realized playing hoops would hinder that....Corn's future professionally lies in football, not basketball even though he is a very good bball player....I think the basketball experiment wouldn't last more than a year if it happens...just my opinion

WayCraKen on 22 Oct 2012 - 10:55am #

Seriously!! He is an average NAIA or Lower D1 player and you would want him for the Basketball team? He is tough as nails though to be that skinny and run the football as hard as he does. I just hope he doesnt slow down too much like most thin players do since he needs to gain approx 15% just for an average build. He is a better football player than basketball.