Alex Cooper attracting more interest as QB 
October, 7, 2012
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Damon Sayles | ESPN.com
It seems every week, Alex Cooper (Mesquite, Texas/Mesquite) is asked the same question: Football or basketball?
When Cooper isn’t the starting quarterback for Mesquite, he’s the point guard for the school basketball team -- and he’s a pretty good one. Cooper has basketball offers from Stephen F. Austin and Arkansas-Fort Smith and interest from Wichita State, North Texas, Texas Tech, Lehigh and Missouri State.
The problem is, as good a point guard as he is, Cooper shows more and more that he can manage an offense on the football field. In Friday’s 35-14 win against Rockwall-Heath (Heath, Texas) -- a team with two SEC commits and a Big 12 commit on defense -- Cooper threw for 250 yards, completed 77 percent of his passes (20 of 26) and rushed for three touchdowns.
When Cooper isn’t the starting quarterback for Mesquite, he’s the point guard for the school basketball team -- and he’s a pretty good one. Cooper has basketball offers from Stephen F. Austin and Arkansas-Fort Smith and interest from Wichita State, North Texas, Texas Tech, Lehigh and Missouri State.
The problem is, as good a point guard as he is, Cooper shows more and more that he can manage an offense on the football field. In Friday’s 35-14 win against Rockwall-Heath (Heath, Texas) -- a team with two SEC commits and a Big 12 commit on defense -- Cooper threw for 250 yards, completed 77 percent of his passes (20 of 26) and rushed for three touchdowns.
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