Arizona Diamondbacks outfielder Alek Thomas once actually committed to play football and baseball at TCU. He never made it to Fort Worth.
On Feb. 10, 2017, Alek Thomas tweeted, “I am very proud to say I have verbally committed to TCU to continue my academic, baseball and football career!”Had he remained true to that commitment, he might have been a wide receiver on TCU’s football team that reached the college football national title game, and a center fielder for the baseball team that made it to the
He is the rare example of the athlete who was so talented that both the respective head coaches at TCU signed off on Thomas playing football and baseball. “We thought if it was baseball only, he would definitely sign after the draft. If there was football, we thought we had a chance. What were those chances? Maybe 25 percent, and that might be the high end.”
“They have a great coaching staff in football and baseball, and I created some relationships there, so that was pretty cool, too.” “It was a low-risk move for football because was going to be a preferred walk-on, and that was it,” Saarloos said. “Had he made the team, the would have flipped from baseball to football.”
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