Comments on: Tough break for Rockies prospect Kyle Parker

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:53:16 +0000

I agree, and it’s a subject with which I’m intimately familiar. However, your chances of being badly injured – as in, career-disrupting – playing football far exceed your chances of being badly inured playing baseball. If you wind up getting hurt enough to wash yourself out of a major league career, the difference between that baseball scholarship and the tuition you paid or loans you took, and the signing bonus and long-term professional income you blew or curtailed, would be peanuts.

It’s great that he “loved” football and Clemson. But there are things that I love too – even at my age – but had to give up to keep my wife from murdering me in my sleep. So it goes.

By: gcarn

gcarn — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 15:49:11 +0000

But uh . . . He signed a 1.4 MILLION dollar contract in the spring. I think he can afford college with plenty left over. He just spent $800,000 to play QB for his senor year at college (2.2 – 1.4 = 8). I don’t think he’s worried about the money.

By: juade

juade — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 05:25:14 +0000

So uh…has anyone considered this kid’s scholarship availability? Sure, football is/was a mistake, and he’s obviously a baseball talent, but what’s the whole story here? School’s expensive.

By: raysfan1

raysfan1 — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 04:09:17 +0000

The young manknows his future is in baseball, has no chance of reaching the NFL as a quarterback. However, because he loves football and especially Clemson, he wanted one more year. Sadly for him, it was a bad season for him and his team. He hoped to go out on a high note in the bowl game against South Florida, but it wasn’t to be.
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The coach let him play fin the bowl gameor the same reason he was allowed to play at all this year–he was Clemson’s best QB and he wanted to play.
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Broken ribs usually keep football players out of football 6-8 weeks. He might not miss much spring training agter all.
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Still, if one can play both baseball and football professionally–go with baseball; if (like Parker) one has potential to play major league baseball, but not professional football, quit playing football immediately.
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My wife went to South Carolina (Clemson’s arch rival), and I went to South Florida(Clemson’s opponent today), so while it’s too bad Parker got hurt, I can’t say I’m too sorry about the result of the game.

By: adrianbk

adrianbk — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:15:31 +0000

Ah, dipping the toes in the shallow end of the gene pool

By: Old Gator

Old Gator — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:01:39 +0000

I guess no college coaches ever heard of Bo Jackson, eh? If this kid had ruined his baseball career with a pointless compensation-bowl injury – let alone any football injury if baseball is what he really wanted to play professionally – the worst part of it would be that it freed up so much of his time to go spreading his chromosomes for stupidity around the gene pool.