[NU Sports] Recruiting

[Roy S. Lamberton]

You can pull that sort of thing at a state school, where just about anyone can get accepted.

But they still cannot sign more than 85 kids to football scholarships.

There is nothing in the rules that precludes a position coach from working the summer camp, and making mental notes about how different kids react to their coaching before any offers are tendered. 

RW rarely walked around the NU summer camp, but just about all of the assistant coaches ran their position areas, there just wasn't any video shot (that you could tell) during the sessions AND all the blinds into the indoor facility were closed during camp sessions.

NU does use a lot of "preferred walk-ons" who are really the first in line for a scholarship and since Walker, much is made of walking on to get a scholarship. When I was around in 72-74, it was virtually impossible to even get a look as a walk-on at NU (we had a kid in the fraternity who was a very good QB - led Chi Phi to at least 3 intramural championships, but they wouldn't even give him a tryout)

He probably wouldn't have made the team, but he was awfully good.

rsl

 

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-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Beamsley, Jeff
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:26 AM
To: Tom Maycock
Cc: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Recruiting

I've heard that the SEC practice is to oversign and bring those kids into practice where there is competition FOR THE SCHOLLY. Those that get cut usually transfer to jc's or div II. 

BT only brings in scholly kids and any potential walk-ons. 

Jeff

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On Jan 13, 2011, at 11:11 AM, "Tom Maycock" <tkmaycock at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Speaking of recruiting, in case anyone thought it was a level playing field, 
> it's not:
> 
> http://oversigning.com/testing/
> 
> Posts on the rivals board claim that Harbaugh pulled similar stuff at Stanford, 
> by putting out way more offers than they had spots, and then denying admit as 
> needed to make room for the best players. 
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
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