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Rangers' former first-round bust flips script, takes reverse-Tim Tebow approach to play SEC football

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Jake Skole (left) signs an autograph for Angel Brazier, 13, after taking the ALS ice water challenge following their defeat of the Midland Rockhounds at Dr. Pepper Ballpark in Frisco on Saturday, August 30, 2014. Winning bids got the opportunity to dump a bucket of ice water on the corresponding Frisco Roughriders baseball player. (Stewart F. House/Special Contributor)

Jake Skole, one of the Rangers' biggest ever draft busts, is getting another chance in another sport.

It's almost like Tim Tebow, but in reverse. Instead of going from football to baseball like Tebow, Skole is switching from baseball to SEC football.