[ballah09]

6'8 220
Bridge Creek School(Blanchard, Oklahoma)

Liberty offered for basketball but he wants to play football

Off the Radar QB Hoping Camps Bring Offers




Ryan Spangler, a 6-foot-8, 215-pound quarterback from Bridge Creek High in Okla., threw for over threw for over 3,000 yards and 33 scores as a junior in 2009.
Additionally, he is also one of the finest basketball players in the state. He plays for the AAU team Athletes First out of Oklahoma City and his skills have been described as the “real deal” from those scouts that have seen him play so far this spring.

Schools like “Oral Roberts, Liberty, Lehigh, and Wichita State” have all offered the forward a scholarship, but Spangler the quarterback is still looking for offer number one.

“Right now I have more scholarships for basketball,” Spangler explained. “North Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa State and Tulsa keep looking at me the most and I am hearing a lot from them.”

The Sooners have a quarterback commitment in Kendal Thompson, but Spangler has been in contact with Josh Heupel (OU QB Coach) and Kevin Wilson (OU OC) and he will be attending the OU summer camp Saturday to throw in front of the staff to try and help his cause.

“I am going down to throw at OU tomorrow,” Spangler said. “They said if they like the way I do things and the way I throw that I could get an offer. I am just trying to go out and get an offer.”

Spangler, who grew up a fan of Ada High star Jeremy Shockey, will also be attending camp sessions at North Texas, Tulsa and Arkansas this summer in an effort to ramp up his grid recruiting interest.

“I am a pretty smart quarterback and I can find the open receiver,” Spangler responded when asked about his strengths. “(The coaches like) like my size but they want me to get up to about 235.”

http://recruiting.scout.com/a.z?s=73&p= ... id=4986834
http://rivals.yahoo.com/kansas/football ... ler-108269

[Sly Fox]

Its been awhile since we had a two-sport guy (Vince Redd perhaps?) but this kid might be a possibility.

Have you seen hi, SumItUp?

[SumItUp]

I have not seen him play.

[olldflame]

As much as we on FF may have wanted him to, Vince never suited up for hoops. Chris Summers played a little 2 years ago. There have been a few other football players over the years who have helped out when the BB team was short on numbers. Ben Anderson comes to mind.

I'm trying to remember going way back anyone who played both FB and BB for any length of time, and I'm drawing a blank.

Mark Reed was a legit 2 sport athlete in baseball and basketball.

We have had a ton of guys do football and track. Some of them very well, although they were almost all scholarship football players, like Kevin Fogg, who ran on our 4x100 relay team this year, so they were limited in how much time they could spend with track. Right now Cody Fridgen is the other way around. He's a scholarship pole vaulter who also plays football.

[Sly Fox]

Thanks for the clarification on Vince & Chris Summers. Dominique Jones has transitioned from one sport to the other.

[Champion]

I seem to remember Ramsey Moore was a football / track guy. I think he was a receiver and a decathloner

[flamehunter]

How about Mike Reid way back when. He was a pretty good high jumper and at 6'3" was one of the more exciting slam dunk artists Liberty had.

[olldflame]

A lot of football and basketball players doubled in track. James McKnight held the school record in the long jump at one time. Dominic Bolton and Donald Manns also ran sprints. Going back further, none other than Bill Gillespie set records in the shot put while playing football. Rod Martin, who started at center at 6'3" on our NCCAA championship team with Karl Hess and Ed Vickers was the also our first 7 foot high jumper.

The football/basketball double is a hard one to do. I think Ryan will probably have to pick a sport.

[01LUGrad]

decathloner

It's "decathlete," but that's okay. I think I like your word better.