Amid the flurry of baseball signings this week, two multi-sport stars for different teams of Tigers will be abandoning their quarterbacking jobs in major-college football -- one for more money and one after more time than anyone anticipated.
Zach Lee, Kyle Parker Ink Their Departure Dates From College Football
First, and newsiest, is the wooing of LSU’s Zach Lee by the Dodgers. For $5.25 million, the freshman Tiger will eschew any further gridiron action and report to Los Angeles. SBN’s LSU community reacts about how you’d expect for fans of a team facing a lot of questions on offense as is:
1) This completely fucking sucks.
2) This does not mean the end of LSU.
3) This makes LSU extremely thin at QB.
4) This doesn’t mean a young QB will suck in 2012.
5) Who the hell is Barrett Bailey?Cooler heads prevail, eventually:
Zach Lee made the right decision. Taking 5 Mil+ now (by far the highest contract amount for an amateur the Dodgers have ever offered) rather than risking anytime playing college ball is really a no-brainier. He would need a great amount of luck to survive even a year of both unscathed, and if he showed promise at QB it might scare away the big bucks from baseball. [...] By all accounts Lee was upfront with both the league and LSU through this whole process, and that’s more maturity than we usually see from high-flight-risk high school recruits.
One face (and arm) we’ll get to see for a little while longer is Kyle Parker’s. The third-year Clemson star was a first-round draft pick for the Rockies, collects $1.4 million -- and will stick with his Tigers, at least for this season. SBN’s Shakin’ the Southland reacts with some alma mater pride:
According to Baseball America, Parker just inked a 1.4 million dollar deal with the Rockies. The rest of the terms are not disclosed yet [...] But the last figures we heard in July were in the 2-2.4 million range, so this means Parker lost between a half million and a cool million to play Clemson football.In other Clemson quarterbacking news, once-heralded slinger and internet darling Willy Korn is -- oh. Oh, that’s unfortunate. Yeah, thanks again, Kyle!
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