<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">As forks in the road go, this one is an industrial-sized pitchfork. During his senior year at Central High School in Hayneville, Ala., Ben Wallace was recruited to play football at Auburn University. He even signed a letter of intent. Wallace’s basketball options, meanwhile, were pretty much zero. But the future Bulls center didn’t want to give up on the bouncing ball. “When (Auburn’s football coaches) were recruiting me, they were saying I was going to go both ways,” Wallace said. “I was talking about football and basketball, and they were talking about offense and defense. So there was a little miscommunication right there. I ended up not attending Auburn.” Instead of being a pampered Division I football player, Wallace found his basketball home at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland. Wallace had attended a Charles Oakley basketball camp in Alabama a year or two earlier. The longtime NBA power forward and Cleveland native stayed in touch and helped Wallace connect with the Cuyahoga coach.</div> Read more...
<div class="quote_poster">SP23 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I wonder what position he played..</div> I'm guessing defensive end, with his size and strength it would have been his ideal position. BTW: Welcome back SP23.
Thanks, my computer had been messed up, hopefully I'm back now. I probably would have taken a D1 offer to a big football school unless he just didn't really like football close to as much as basketball. Not sure if he was good enough to make it to the pros for football. But he had a tough road for basketball.
He probally would've been on the O Line, for the same reasons GameFace said, strength and size, would've been an ideal blocker.
