OT: Monte Harrison, remember him?

[v1nufan]

Super disappointed when he chose baseball. Good luck to him.

Former MLB player Monte Harrison plans to walk on to the Arkansas Razorbacks as a receiver

The 28-year-old Harrison had signed a letter of intent in 2014 to play at Nebraska before being drafted by the Milwaukee Brewers.

www.espn.com

 

[Harry Caray]

He had a really terrible baseball career, considering the hype he had coming out of high school

 

[litespeedhuskerfan]

Per Google he made 2.4mil career earnings in baseball.

Impossible to say for sure if he had played football if he would have scored more mula in the league or not...but kudos for following his dreams amd giving it a go. I had forgotten about him.

 

[c3o]

I remember him being 6’3” in college. Too bad he shrunk a couple inches. That’s rare

 

[Sodakred]

He had a really terrible baseball career, considering the hype he had coming out of high school

Even slightly worse than the Royals uber-hyped Bubba, but both guys got paid well to ditch NU. Of course if they had only come around during NIL era they possibly could have made a lot more money playing football at NU. Or leveraged much bigger paydays from baseball.

 

[Dean Pope]

Interesting move by Harrison. The dude made the big leagues so he was a success I guess. But now at 28, if he can still play, he could secure a six figure income as an "amateur" athlete playing football somewhere. And hopefully graduate in 4-5 years.

 

[litespeedhuskerfan]

Even slightly worse than the Royals uber-hyped Bubba, but both guys got paid well to ditch NU. Of course if they had only come around during NIL era they possibly could have made a lot more money playing football at NU. Or leveraged much bigger paydays from baseball.

Starling made a LOT more than Harrison from baseball. Shooting from the hip with zero research I'd guess at least 4X more which puts him in the 10mil range??

 

[HuskerJag]

Starling made a LOT more than Harrison from baseball. Shooting from the hip with zero research I'd guess at least 4X more which puts him in the 10mil range??

You sent me down the rabbit trail with this and good guess…$7.5 million signing bonus and Sport Trac says another $1.6 in salary etc for career earnings of $9.1 million. And a silver medal in the Olympics too

 

[litespeedhuskerfan]

You sent me down the rabbit trail with this and good guess…$7.5 million signing bonus and Sport Trac says another $1.6 in salary etc for career earnings of $9.1 million. And a silver medal in the Olympics too

Hahaha....total guess and I based it on their draft positiin. If memory serves Starling was like 6th overall(ish) compared to second round for Harrison so I knew he had made quite a bit more.

 

[spartanhusker]

Even slightly worse than the Royals uber-hyped Bubba, but both guys got paid well to ditch NU. Of course if they had only come around during NIL era they possibly could have made a lot more money playing football at NU. Or leveraged much bigger paydays from baseball.

I still have my BUBBA Royals shirt...not a huge Royals guy but I wanted HIM to do well....

 

[dinglefritz]

Interesting move by Harrison. The dude made the big leagues so he was a success I guess. But now at 28, if he can still play, he could secure a six figure income as an "amateur" athlete playing football somewhere. And hopefully graduate in 4-5 years.

I suspect he hopes to not spend 3 years in college. Maybe he wants a degree and figures he’ll earn enough to pay for it. And then there’s always the coed side benefits….

 

[Sodakred]

You sent me down the rabbit trail with this and good guess…$7.5 million signing bonus and Sport Trac says another $1.6 in salary etc for career earnings of $9.1 million. And a silver medal in the Olympics too

He can probably thank NU for $5mil or so of that bonus overpay. Nice to have the football trump card to play in his negotiations with the Royals.