Bryan Gasser has been a tight ends coach at three different schools, and at each stop, he had the same rule: no recruiting non-basketball players.
“I think there’s a long list of reasons why,” said Gasser, who’s in his first season as Toledo’s recruiting coordinator and director of player personnel after a previous stint at UT from 2010 to 2015.
The leveraging, body positioning, natural athletic ability, and ball skills that a post player exhibits on the basketball court translate to the football field. NFL tight ends Antonio Gates, Tony Gonzalez, and Jimmy Graham all played college basketball, and they’ve combined for 27 Pro Bowls.