[NU Sports] Recruiting

[Roy S. Lamberton]

Hmmmm, of course they can get alums to fund "grants" to walk-ons who don't have the money
to attend the school. Div III schools do that all the time (and not just the big players
either)

The Div 1AA teams probably have 10-15 kids on academic scholarships of some sort but you'd
have to look at the Spring Roster and the Signing release and see if the SEC guys have
more than 85 players.

The question is which players are on scholarship. Even NU doesn't release that info,
except that they used to put out a list of walk-ons in June every year, when they handed
out the uniform numbers.

I can remember back when UNL used to have a large number of walk-ons - but like dOSU,
everyone who applied could get in if they were a HS grad.

rsl

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-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of Tom
Maycock
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 12:54 PM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Recruiting

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


You can't *have* more than 85, but you can *sign* way more than can fit under 
your 85 limit, at least you can in the SEC. That's the problem. 

Some of the SEC schools are apparently signing WAY more kids then they have room 
for each year. Then, they bump existing kids, abuse medical redshirt rules, and 
anything else they need to do, to get down to the 85 limit. 

Pretty unsavory stuff, and a huge advantage over Big 10 teams that are (as I 
understand) restricted by the conference on the number of players they can sign 
to a number directly related to the number of open slots. 

Tom
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