Caleb Furst Profile

[Travis Miller]

My friend Paul Banks recently did a very goo profile on Caleb and his plans after this season.

Prescribing Success: Purdue Star Caleb Furst Pursuing Med School, Not NBA, After Graduation

Purdue PF/C Caleb Furst is focused on trying to help national runner-up Purdue adjust to life after Zach Edey, with designs on becoming a doctor after graduation.

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[Tommaker]

Can you name one other top 20 school where a potential starter/off the bench player is pre-med? I'm sure there's a couple, but not many.

 

[Bank Shot Podcast]

Can you name one other top 20 school where a potential starter/off the bench player is pre-med? I'm sure there's a couple, but not many.

Didn't Aaron Craft do this back in the day? There are very few. Most athletes just go the basic sports management, business or something similar.

 

[northside100]

Didn't Aaron Craft do this back in the day? There are very few. Most athletes just go the basic sports management, business or something similar.

Good for him.

He enrolled in the Ohio State University College of Medicine to pursue a medical degree in August 2020.[34][35][36] Craft matched into an otorhinolaryngology residency at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, and graduated medical school in 2024.

 

[Schmedly_Whiplash]

Pretty sure Caleb is a guy you'd like your daughter to marry. Honest, straight shooter, hard working.
I remember a couple of hoopsters in the engineering program too.

 

[Lee3370]

Didn't Aaron Craft do this back in the day? There are very few. Most athletes just go the basic sports management, business or something similar.

Not basketball, but in the 90's Robert Smith was pre-med and actually quit football and ran track only because the football coaches wouldnt give him enough time to study and they put pressure on him to switch to an easier major.

 

[Lee3370]

Pretty sure Caleb is a guy you'd like your daughter to marry. Honest, straight shooter, hard working.
I remember a couple of hoopsters in the engineering program too.

My daughter is 20 and a junior in the Honors college here at U of Arizona studying Molecular Cellular Biology. They would make a good couple outside my daughter being 5'1, lol

 

[Bank Shot Podcast]

Not basketball, but in the 90's Robert Smith was pre-med and actually quit football and ran track only because the football coaches wouldnt give him enough time to study and they put pressure on him to switch to an easier major.

I don't see Painter pulling something like that. It would make for a really bad look and I think he's just a good dude.

 

[Lee3370]

I don't see Painter pulling something like that. It would make for a really bad look and I think he's just a good dude.

I dont either, 90's had allot less transparency well before NIL.

A co-worker who is a big sports fan and Marquette grad in the early 80's (but his best friend is a Purdue alumni) and I were talking about the game. I asked about their size and he said there only big man is a stiff. He went to the final 4 with his friend here in Phoenix and so follows Purdue. I said our big men are by committee. He really likes TKR, and I mentioned center is by committee. I brought up Furst, saying I liked him as a freshman, former Mr Basketball, but just one of those guys that didnt really improve and he is 3rd in the rotation after an injury.

Anyways I said Furst is a senior and honestly he is typically the type that transfers for his senior year to help prepare for a career in Europe so he can get more playing time. I wonder why he stayed. Thanks to the OP, I know now, for an education.

Actually its refreshing to see someone stay for he degree and value the Purdue education. Its one of the things I love about our program.