Syracuse Football: 5 questions with Pitt Color Analyst Bill Osborn
Paul A. Esden Jr. (@BoyGreen25):
Bill you’re a pretty interesting guy. While you were born in New Jersey you went to Pitt and were a three-sport star. We were doing some research on you before the interview and you’re the first athlete at Pitt to get three letters in three different sports at the University since Mike Ditka! That must mean you’re a huge proponent of athletes playing multiple sports at the collegiate level?
Bill Osborn (@Pitt_FB):
It’s obviously a dying breed today. A lot of these players today are specialized or gravitate towards one sport and stick with it. Which makes it pretty cool when we still see guys today doing two
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sports.
For me personally I came from a small school, so after football was over, most of my teammates just naturally went and tried out for the basketball team. So some competition was created and we were all on the same page. It’s not like some of the members had been practicing basketball for months leading up, we were at the same competition level.
With everything today from media obligations to training regimes, it’s near impossible to do more than one sport. Although I do have to correct you in your question you said ‘three sport star’. In basketball I’m not sure I would say I was a star by any means.
I was a star teammate sharing my support and I have a championship ring and a lot of lifelong friends from the hoops squad for sure. It was an awesome experience. Baseball was probably my best sport to be honest, just throwing that out there.