Villanova’s Matt Szczur has had so much to do this year — play football and baseball, provide bone marrow to a toddler with juvenile leukemia, keep up with his schoolwork — that he sometimes wishes he had a duplicate Matt Szczur to give him a hand.
Szczur, a wide receiver, likes to do it all, but he will have to make a hard choice after he plays in the Senior Bowl next month. Szczur is also a baseball player who was drafted in the fifth round last year by the Chicago Cubs. If he commits to play only baseball by Feb. 10, in time for spring training, he will receive a $500,000 bonus. That means he would miss the N.F.L.’s scouting Christian Louboutin Heels combine, which begins Feb. 23.
“I’d rather see him play baseball,” his father, Marc, said this week, “but I just want him to be happy.”
For Matt Szczur, whose last name sounds like Caesar, football makes him happiest right now. And another championship is at stake. Villanova (9-4), the reigning national champion in the Football Championship Subdivision, formerly Division I-AA, will play a semifinal game against Eastern Washington (11-2) on Friday in Cheney, Wash.
The winner will face either Delaware, Villanova’s archrival, or Georgia Southern in the championship game Jan. 7 in Frisco, Tex.
Szczur said this week that he was focused on Friday’s game more than whether he would choose football or baseball UGG Nightfall.
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