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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 910020" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>One article I liked about walk ons: <a href="https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1591099-examining-the-process-of-being-a-college-football-walk-on" target="_blank">Examining the Process of Being a College Football Walk On. </a></p><p></p><p>Unless you're under scholarship restrictions, an FBS team has 85 scholarships to give. They can have 130 players on the team. On average, a team is going to have at least 33 walk-ons, and at the P5 level I'd often expect more. That means nearly 1/3rd of the players practicing day-in and day-out were walk-ons or used to be walk-ons. It's not crazy that a couple of your starters could come out of that pool.</p><p></p><p>To me, saying that walk-ons starting means you're doing a bad job coaching doesn't make sense--play the players that give you the best shot, no matter where they come from. Even in the NFL, which pays a lot for scouting, you have undrafted free agents going to the pro bowl; the overlooked guys break through.</p><p></p><p>A rational coach plays the player who is playing the best in games and in practice. In real life, an NCAA coach is more likely to give the start to a scholarship player, even if the walk-on is even with them in practice; you gave that guy a scholarship, so doesn't he "have to be better"? When you think about it that way, a walk-on has to be clearly better than the scholarship player, because the scholarship player is getting the benefit of the doubt.</p><p></p><p>So, don't tarnish a coach for playing a walk on--the walk on probably earned their position and then some.</p><p></p><p>What says you're not doing well is when the unit isn't playing well, whether it's starters or walk-ons.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 910020, member: 282"] One article I liked about walk ons: [URL='https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1591099-examining-the-process-of-being-a-college-football-walk-on']Examining the Process of Being a College Football Walk On. [/URL] Unless you're under scholarship restrictions, an FBS team has 85 scholarships to give. They can have 130 players on the team. On average, a team is going to have at least 33 walk-ons, and at the P5 level I'd often expect more. That means nearly 1/3rd of the players practicing day-in and day-out were walk-ons or used to be walk-ons. It's not crazy that a couple of your starters could come out of that pool. To me, saying that walk-ons starting means you're doing a bad job coaching doesn't make sense--play the players that give you the best shot, no matter where they come from. Even in the NFL, which pays a lot for scouting, you have undrafted free agents going to the pro bowl; the overlooked guys break through. A rational coach plays the player who is playing the best in games and in practice. In real life, an NCAA coach is more likely to give the start to a scholarship player, even if the walk-on is even with them in practice; you gave that guy a scholarship, so doesn't he "have to be better"? When you think about it that way, a walk-on has to be clearly better than the scholarship player, because the scholarship player is getting the benefit of the doubt. So, don't tarnish a coach for playing a walk on--the walk on probably earned their position and then some. What says you're not doing well is when the unit isn't playing well, whether it's starters or walk-ons. [/QUOTE]
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