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8 Texas Tech walk-ons awarded scholarships

Daserop

Daserop

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I'm happy for the players. However, the big take away was that Texas Tech was able to hand out that many scholarships to walk-ons. That seems like a lot. I didn't realize they lost so many players with Kliff left.

Edit: can a mod revise the title. Need "awarded"...not "awarding"

 
Good for them. Walk on's can be crucial.

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I love that stuff. I love that the other players are happy for them. Just great all around. I am not sure how many normally get awarded but if you have 7 extra might as well give them to someone. I bet Tech has more than normal with the coaching change
 
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Whenever there's a management change there's going to be other changes that go along with it. That probably happened when Campbell came to Ames. Klieman lost both starting receivers, Risen and Zuber. I guess TxT is experiencing similar stress. But some programs tend to develop walkons better than others perhaps because they don't recruit very well?
 
surly said:
Whenever there's a management change there's going to be other changes that go along with it. That probably happened when Campbell came to Ames. Klieman lost both starting receivers, Risen and Zuber. I guess TxT is experiencing similar stress. But some programs tend to develop walkons better than others perhaps because they don't recruit very well?
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Nebraska during the 70's, 80's, and early 90's, the Osborn era, lived and died with walk on recruits. They would get a few hundred players out for the team every year and a lot of the offensive lineman were walkon kids.
 
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Nebraska during the 70's, 80's, and early 90's, the Osborn era, lived and died with walk on recruits. They would get a few hundred players out for the team every year and a lot of the offensive lineman were walkon kids.
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They also had a lot of receivers and various other positions that were "walk-ons". They were actually guys who got track scholarships because Osborne figured out he had nearly unlimited scholarships when he could stash players on other Nebraska teams. The rule about football players scholarships having to be counted as FB scholarships even if they were awarded a scholarship in another sport came about as a result of Osborne's shenanigans.
 
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Further to whatever point one chooses to make, K-State's depth chart was just released and both starting wide receivers plus the tight end are former walk-ons. All from Kansas, btw.
 
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They also had a lot of receivers and various other positions that were "walk-ons". They were actually guys who got track scholarships because Osborne figured out he had nearly unlimited scholarships when he could stash players on other Nebraska teams. The rule about football players scholarships having to be counted as FB scholarships even if they were awarded a scholarship in another sport came about as a result of Osborne's shenanigans.
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Not St. Tom of the Prairie, he would never do anything unethical.... All of the walk on linemen were on academic scholarships. They just happened to be with the Chemistry and Biology departments, as subjects of human experiments with PEDs.
 
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Not St. Tom of the Prairie, he would never do anything unethical.... All of the walk on linemen were on academic scholarships. They just happened to be with the Chemistry and Biology departments, as subjects of human experiments with PEDs.
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A few linemen were also on track schollies, if I remember correctly, as throwers.

EDIT: On further reflection it might have been TEs, FBs and DL.
 
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