Tommy Eggleston to walk on

Just a few more quotes from former Penn basketball player Tommy Eggleston on his decision to walk onto the football team. Deadlines and space limitations kept the article short.

On what coach Al Bagnoli said about getting back to football:

We just talked about how it would be a process, cuz I haven’t played football for you know 2 years, so he just talked to me about how it would be a process and how he wanted me to committed and in it for the long haul, and that I shouldn’t expect miracles right away and it would take hard work, and all that sounded good to me and so, you know, here we are.

On using all three years of his remaining eligibility:

I’ve thought about that, I’m not really sure. Obviously I have time to make that decision. But if things go well, cuz Ryan [Becker], my roommate, has three years left too, after this year, so if things go well this year for sure I’d love to use 3 years, but we’ll see how it goes. I’m not jumping to any conclusions.

On his present status with the team:

I worked out with the team today. I’m going to be fully into all the offseason workouts, and try to become as much a part of the team as anybody else. So I gotta earn the team’s respect and then the coaches, and then hopefully we’ll go from there.

All the guys are really nice, really cool so I cant complain at all. I can imagine you know, theres another kid trying to come out and earn a spot, has gotta be not the greatest idea in their minds, but they’ve all been cool to me, so I can’t complain.

On staying involved with collegiate athletics, and his decision to play basketball out of high school:

I definitely enjoy just competing. And for sure, I’d say, coming out of high school I had to make a decision between football and basketball, but ultimately I ended up switching back to football, so I didn’t make the right decision coming out of high school. But I think I thrive more on the actual competing than I do on one sport or another