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DEL.ICIO.USLars Tate’s son wants to play baseball and football in college
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Cartersville quarterback Donovan Tate will spend the majority of the summer concentrating on baseball.
“He’s always played a lot of baseball into the summer,” Cartersville football coach Frank Barden said. “He’s trying out for the Team USA baseball team. I know he has an opportunity to make it.
“He’s been invited to play in the AFLAC All-American baseball game at Dodger Stadium on Aug. 9. And he’ll also play in the U.S. Army football game.”
While the baseball diamond continues to tug at the son of former Georgia running back Lars Tate, colleges are pitching the opportunity for him to play two sports.
“Most of the schools have offered him both sports from Southern Cal to Michigan to all of them,” Barden said. “He’ll sign in February with somebody and then go through the baseball draft in June.”
From Barden’s perspective, Tate, a baseball centerfielder, is equally talented in both sports.
“He’s really a 6-3, 205 safety that is just an unbelievable athlete,” Barden said. “He played wide receiver and running back for us as a sophomore and as a junior played quarterback simply because he was the best athlete and the best opportunity for us to put somebody back there to win games.
“He’s a very good quarterback who would be a division 1 quarterback. But he’s just a talented kid in both sports.”
Though he has yet to narrow his college choices, Georgia would seem to be a good fit for Tate, who is expected to announce his finalists by later summer.
“I don’t see why he wouldn’t be a Georgia boy,” Barden said. “His dad played there.
“As far as a top five in college, [Georgia] would be a good fit for him to play both football and baseball.”
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By buck
June 12, 2008 7:24 AM | Link to this
Come to Athens
By Pago Flyer
June 12, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this
Isn’t Gayland Hall the offensive genius for Penn State?