Jae Crowder NFL TE?

[MUcookie30]

Tweet from paint touches-not sure how to link properly but wouldn't that be something?

[TallTitan34]

@PaintTouches
Don't know if he was serious, but Buzz just said a couple NFL teams have contacted him about having Jae Crowder try out for them. #mubb

[Bocephys]

I thought that was normally reserved for basketball players who weren't very good at basketball.  I'd imagine Jae will take his chances in the NBA.

[spartan3186]

I thought that was normally reserved for basketball players who weren't very good at basketball.  I'd imagine Jae will take his chances in the NBA.

Jimmy Graham was a pretty good basketball player.... although he's probably a better TE.

[rocky_warrior]

Playing the averages, the NBA would seem to be his best bet, but if that falls through, the NFL can make you so dough.

Average Salaries in the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL

1. NBA - $5.15 million

The average NBA player made $5.15 million in salary in 2010-11. That was easily the highest average salary of the four major sports leagues in the United States. NBA players make the most money, on average, because there are fewer NBA players than NFL players, or NHL players or major league baseball players.

NBA teams can have a maximum of 15 players per team. There are 30 NBA teams. So there only a total of 450 NBA players. NBA teams play 82 regular season games, and the league has a long playoff season too, which generated enough income to pay the players an average of $5.15 million.

The NBA is currently locking out its players, as the league is trying cut salaries in the league. So if the NBA plays in 2011-12, the players will earn a lower average salary, but no matter what the concessions the owners get from the players, NBA players will still be the highest paid in pro sports.

2. MLB - $3.31 million

With an average salary of $3.31 million, major league baseball players are the second highest paid players of the four major sports leagues. There are 25 players on each of the 30 teams in MLB, or a total of 750 players.

MLB teams play 162 games per season, which provides a ton of games for the league to generate income from. In order to generate even more income, MLB is contemplating adding more wild card teams for the playoffs. What hurts baseball is that it is the most regional of all the major sports.

3. NHL - $2.4 million

NHL players make the third most money of the major sports leagues, with an average salary of $2.4 million. There are 23 players on each of the 30 NHL teams, for a total of 690 players.

I'm surprised that NHL players make as much as they do. One of the major papers in New York City used to show the weekly ratings of sports games on TV in the New York market. NHL games were always the lowest rated of any sport, and some of the ratings were incredibly low. A Stanley Cup Finals game on NBC in 2007 was the lowest rated prime time program in NBC history.

4. NFL - $1.9 million

The irony of life. The NFL is easily the most popular of all the sports leagues in the United States, but NFL players make, on average, the least amount of money at $1.9 million a year. That's because of two reasons.

Each NFL team has 53 total players. There are 32 NFL teams, for a total of 1,696 players. That's almost four times the number of players in pro football than in the NBA, over 1,000 more players than the NHL has, and well over twice as many players as MLB has.

NFL teams only play 16 games in the regular season. That's a just a fraction of the number of games each if the other sports leagues play per year. Less games means less opportunity to generate income.

So there are a lot more NFL players than there are NBA, NHL or MLB players, and the teams play far fewer games. The NFL still generates a ton more income than the other leagues do because NFL football is so much more popular. Plus the Super Bowl alone generates incredible income for the NFL.

[tower912]

Back in the day, the story was that Tom Copa was invited to try out for some NFL teams.  

[Henry Sugar]

Over the last 20 years, 15,000 men have played in the NFL.  652 have played longer than 4 years.

[4everwarriors]

And I've contacted by the Blackhawks too. Are you cats nuts? Crowder will either play for pay or put his MU degree to good use.

[ZiggysFryBoy]

And I've contacted by the Blackhawks too. Are you cats nuts? Crowder will either play for pay or put his MU degree to good use.

but will the pay come from the NBA or the NFL, aina?

[TallTitan34]

I think I heard somewhere Crowder was a pretty good high-school QB but got hurt and decided to go with basketball over football.

Is this true?

[Skatastrophy]

I think I heard somewhere Crowder was a pretty good high-school QB but got hurt and decided to go with basketball over football.

Is this true?

You're right on him being QB, but I don't know how good he was.

[warriorchick]

jsglow and I had super-nosebleed season tickets in 10-11, so the first time we got a good look at Jae up close was at Buzz's BBQ last summer.  We were both a little surprised at how solid and physically imposing he was for a basketball player.  jsglow said at the time, "That guy probably would have made a great tight end had he not chosen basketball instead."

I still think he would be better off in D-League if he doesn't make it onto an NBA team.  He has gotten measurably better every year, and there is no reason to think that won't continue. The chances of him getting called up (if that's what they call it in pro basketball) are reasonably high.

[nyg]

Antonio Gates TE
Jimmy Graham TE
Sam Clancy (played at Pitt) DE

All made it in NFL

All had HS football background.  Don't know what Jae's background was, but it can be done.

[Hoopaloop]

I thought that was normally reserved for basketball players who weren't very good at basketball.  I'd imagine Jae will take his chances in the NBA.

Tony Gonzales was a solid basketball player at Cal and a Hall of Famer in the NFL

[swoopem]

http://www.muscoop.com/index.php?topic=28002.msg322853#msg322853

This has been discussed here before

[esotericmindguy]

Julius Peppers....

[drbchilds]

How about davante as a left tackle??
I think Dominic could have been an incredible running back as well!

[brewcity'77]

Julius Peppers....

Peppers is hard to judge since Carolina was pretty desparate for bodies when Peppers walked on the court, he was good but their roster was kind of weak as I recall.

[cheebs09]

Peppers is hard to judge since Carolina was pretty desparate for bodies when Peppers walked on the court, he was good but their roster was kind of weak as I recall.

He was a reserve on their Final Four team in 1999-2000. He was also on the team that had Joseph Forte and Haywood that was number one for a little while. They lost in the second round to Penn State though.

[MerrittsMustache]

Crowder should be able to find a place in the NBA or at least in Europe. It'd be interesting to see him on the football field though. He's 6'6" with good speed, good hands and a 235-pound frame that could add 20 pounds of bulk if the NFL was his calling.

Like warriorchick mentioned, Jae is much more physically imposing in person than he appears on TV. I'm 6'4" and 220 pounds. I don't come across too many people who make me feel small when I stand next to them, but Jae was one of them.

[77ncaachamps]

"I can see that as a possibility."

[ZiggysFryBoy]

He was a reserve on their Final Four team in 1999-2000. He was also on the team that had Joseph Forte and Haywood that was number one for a little while. They lost in the second round to Penn State though.

I watched that game at Heg's.  It was St. Paddy's day. 

[Hards Alumni]

How about davante as a left tackle??
I think Dominic could have been an incredible running back as well!

If dom was anything, he was a CB.

[avid1010]

Tony Gonzales was a solid basketball player at Cal and a Hall of Famer in the NFL

+1...seems like i remember him helping Cal make a bit of a run in the tourney.

[bamamarquettefan]

You're right on him being QB, but I don't know how good he was.

He was considered a better football prospect than basketball prospect in high school, but then again he was 6-foot-1 at the time.  I believe it was a broken hand that made him give up on being a quarterback and focus on basketball (guess you can keep working out dribbling left handed until your throwing hand heels).

It's not a ridiculous possibility if he can't join Lazar as one of only 6 front line players in the NBA shorter than 6-foot-7.

Ironically, several people in Alabama who always completely ignore basketball except for my non-stop Marquette talk actually watched the Gtown and BYU games and started asking me the same thing - saying they'd never seen a guy take charge like that on a court (not surprising, since they've probably only seen 6 basketball games in their life, but hey, they know football down here!)