{"id":689,"date":"2013-07-16T17:14:05","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T21:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=689"},"modified":"2013-07-16T17:20:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T21:20:52","slug":"florida-qb-was-hog-hunting-with-girlfriend-when-drafted-by-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/07\/16\/florida-qb-was-hog-hunting-with-girlfriend-when-drafted-by-red-sox\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida QB Jeff Driskel was hog hunting with GF when drafted by Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_691\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-691\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-691\" alt=\"Kevin C. Cox\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/07\/driskel.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/07\/driskel.jpg 654w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/07\/driskel-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-691\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kevin C. Cox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Jeff Driskel was drafted 29th overall by the Boston Red Sox, and signed earlier this month even though he has no desire to play baseball at all.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-694\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-694 \" alt=\"mosesfish\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/07\/mosesfish.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/07\/mosesfish.jpg 384w, http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/07\/mosesfish-249x300.jpg 249w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Driskel&#8217;s girlfriend Tarin Moses<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Driskel was out hog hunting with his girlfriend,captain of the Gators cheer team Tarin Moses in Arcadia, FL when he heard the news. Moses and Driskel both caught hogs that day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hopefully football works out and I never have to play baseball again,\u201d he said on the opening day of SEC Media Days in Hoover, Ala. Tuesday. \u201cBut playing for the Red Sox is a good backup plan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Driskel said that cell service wasn&#8217;t great in Arcadia, but he was following the draft tracker since he had friends in the draft. All of a sudden he saw his name come up: Jeff Driskel, outfielder, University of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJeff came in my office after Boston drafted him and said, \u2018Coach, this is the deal, they want to sign me,\u2019\u201d Florida coach Will Muschamp said. \u201c\u2019Haven\u2019t picked up a bat in two years and I have no intention of playing baseball, but they\u2019re willing to cut me a check. By NCAA rules, it\u2019s legal.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI said, \u2018Jeff, if you were my son, I\u2019d tell you to sign the contract.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Driskel was drafted 29th overall by the Boston Red Sox, and signed earlier this month even though he has no desire to play baseball at all. Driskel was out hog hunting with his girlfriend,captain of the Gators cheer team Tarin Moses in Arcadia, FL when he heard the news. Moses and Driskel both caught [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[15],"class_list":{"0":"post-689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-ncaafb-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=689"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}