Re: [nas] Notre Dame's Gain Is Now Soccer's Loss

[Brad May <bmay@rambus.com>]

Thanks for the link, Chris.  Maybe no NFL teams will want to draft Shane
because of his size and soccer will have chance to get him back.  But I
imagine he would rather try his luck as a walk-on at NFL camp than get
by on a P-40 salary.


Chris Hilton wrote:
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/20/sports/ncaafootball/20VECS.html?tntemail1
> 
> An interesting bit from the article to stir things up:
> 
> Walton played both sports at the Bishop's School in San Diego --
> football in the fall, soccer in the spring. He was all-state in football
> as a senior, but received only one scholarship offer, from Fresno State.
> So he enrolled at Notre Dame to play soccer, with the promise that he
> could try out for football eventually.
> 
> He had 10 goals and 7 assists as a freshman, but said, with no trace of
> brashness, that "college soccer was a step down" from club soccer.
> 
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