[NU Sports] Gray Shirts ?

[Jonathan Hodges]

It's actually most common in the SEC (due to chronic oversigning: signing
more recruits to letters of intent than scholarships available).  Gray
shirting is basically telling a recruit to come and enroll in the school
for a year without playing on the football team, at which point a
scholarship may become available for them to join.  Usually, academic
issues are involved and that year is used to become academically eligible.
By not walking on the football team right away, it allows them to maintain
their full eligibility time.

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Jonathan Hodges
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On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 9:43 AM, chuck herron <cherron604 at aol.com> wrote:

> A Chicago sports station just did an interview with the Boise St radio
> guy, in which he revealed that new Bear Shea McLellin was actually a 'gray
> shirt' recruit.  Does anybody know, is this 'gray shirting' an Idaho thing,
> or is it more common ?  I had never heard it mentioned before.
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Chuck Herron  Tech '85
>
>
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