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Message: [QUOTE="BillSU, post: 1679132"] I have a tendency to feel the same way. I think we have a better chance with Hill but who knows? Wondering how you felt the we offered D. McNabb? He was almost the new QB at FL ST. instead of SU. “I was fortunate,” McNabb said, reflecting back on the entire recruiting process. “Notre Dame wanted me for both. Indiana [when it had Bob Knight] wanted me for both. [Kentucky coach] Rick Pitino actually asked me, ‘So what are you going to do?’” It was a question any 17-year-old would be floored by: The most prominent hoops coach of the era wanted him to join a program on the verge of ripping off three straight Final Fours. McNabb seriously considered it, at least until he looked at the flip side of playing two sports at a school where basketball was king. “Man, Kentucky isn’t all that good at football,” McNabb thought at the time. Eventually the recruiting process dwindled, and basketball still actually played a large role in his final choice. With a busy hoops schedule, he elected to take only two official visits during his senior year instead of the allotted five. Those two visits went to Nebraska and Syracuse, although ironically it was an unofficial visit prior to his senior year that stands out most to McNabb all these years later. [B]At the time McNabb’s brother was attending school in Tallahassee, Fla., and the younger McNabb and his father decided to visit. While in town, they checked out the local football power, where McNabb bumped into both a college legend and a player he grew up idolizing.[/B] [B]“I was a huge Charlie Ward fan,” McNabb said of the fellow dual-sport star who won a Heisman Trophy at Florida State before moving on to an 11-year NBA career. “I’m visualizing playing at Florida State, thinking ‘My God.’”[/B] [B]Someone else shared the same vision.[/B] [B]“It was funny,” McNabb said. “Bobby Bowden came up behind me and says, ‘Donovan, I’m hearing a lot of great things about you.’ Are you the next Charlie Ward?”[/B] [B]McNabb didn’t hesitate in giving an answer. “I’m like, ‘Ding! Yes I am!’” he said.[/B] [B]In the immediacy of the moment, McNabb seriously considered Florida State, but Tallahassee was just too far away from Chicago. Instead he choose to play both football and, for a time, [URL='http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/donovan-mcnabb-syracuse-university-football-basketball-102913']basketball at Syracuse[/URL].[/B] [B]Ironically, “distance” would also come into play a few years later when McNabb himself was a recruiter at Syracuse and hosting Vick, who Syracuse hoped would be his heir-apparent at quarterback.[/B] [/QUOTE]

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