Drake Harris to play BBall?

Submitted by Gardner FTW on

Take with a grain of salt, but I just heard a caller call into the Huge show who has a son playing basketball for Grand Rapids christian. According to the caller, his son has told him that Drake Harris will be on the basketball team after the first of the year. I found this extremely interesting, yet highly dubious at this point in time. What say you?

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Jasper

December 3rd, 2015 at 5:07 PM ^

Kelvin was the more successful (but less heralded) Grady and, IMO, one of the best recent two-sport UMich athletes. I'd rate him among the best ball handlers of the past several years.

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Double-D

December 3rd, 2015 at 6:17 PM ^

He should focus on gaining weight for football. It's his best sport by a long shot. I doubt he would add anything to the current roster.

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Mr Miggle

December 3rd, 2015 at 4:44 PM ^

He quit to join the football team. Paul Jokisch did the same thing in the 1980s. Tai Streets is the last football player I can remember us having play part time basketball. I believe we had someone on the roster more recently that didn't get into any games.

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jsquigg

December 3rd, 2015 at 4:41 PM ^

Ah yes, the Huge Show, a bastion of sports knowledge over the air waves where one might be confounded at the humility and intelligence behind "Huge Opinions."

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sj

December 3rd, 2015 at 4:43 PM ^

I thought he wouldn't be allowed to do this. My understanding of NCAA regulations is if anyone with an athletic scholarship (in any sport) plays a revenue sport, they have to take a scholarship slot in that sport, even if their original scholarship is in a different one. This was designed to avoid just giving every O-Lineman a discus scholarship to pad the football list. This may be wrong.

It would also only matter if the basketball team scholarship list is full this year, which I think it is.

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MI Expat NY

December 3rd, 2015 at 4:49 PM ^

I think football to basketball might also be an exception.  I don't see any real purpose to it.  Nobody is going to use a football scholarship to hide someone who is truly a basketball player.  

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ppudge

December 3rd, 2015 at 4:49 PM ^

That's false on two fronts. Football players have played basketball before and even baseball (Greg McMurtry, Rick Leach and others). I believe the rule is that you have to play the sport for which you are taking a scholarship first. So you can't sign a kid to a basketball scholarship and then he shows up as a freshman and plays football before basketball season has started. He'd have to wait a year.

The 2nd item is that we only have 12 scholarship players on the hoops team now (unless one was given to the preferred walk-on) and we're allowed 13. But that's moot, as I believe Harris wouldn't need it since he'd still be on the football scholarship.

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