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Posted on 10/4/15 at 7:52 pm
Posted on 10/4/15 at 7:52 pm
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Reporter: You have at least half of a dozen walk-ons contributing on offense. Did you ever think you’d see a day where something like that could happen?
Spurrier: Yeah that’s a good point. We do have a lot of walk-on kids that have come in and maybe played a little better than our scholarship players. That’s sort of what it is right now.
Reporter: Steve Jr. says it’s a product of having a good walk-on program. Is that it?
Spurrier: I think it’s a combination, don’t you? I think it’s a combination of a little of both.
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Posted on 10/4/15 at 7:54 pm to Cockopotamus
We're going to have to rely on walk-ons. That 2-3 year comment will scare away most recruits of worth.
Posted on 10/5/15 at 1:22 pm to Cockopotamus
Don't all teams have 5 walk-ons on the field on offense at the same time during an SEC conference game? Think about all the money the coaches were able to save in recruiting!
Posted on 10/5/15 at 6:15 pm to Cockopotamus
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Reporter: You have at least half of a dozen walk-ons contributing on offense. Did you ever think you’d see a day where something like that could happen?
Slight thread derail
I did sidelines for the Kansas State-Oklahoma State game this weekend. The Wildcats amaze me. At one point they were playing with their FIFTH-Team QB, Kody Cook, a converted wideout who came to KSU as a walk-on. He was replacing Joe Hubener, another KSU walk-on. The team’s leading rusher Justin Silmon, is still not on scholarship. Cook was their leader receiver. Their best D-lineman Will Geary also came to Manhattan as a walk-on. In all, they have 50 players on the roster who came in as walk-ons and 13 of those 50 are now on the Wildcats’ two-deep with six more on the special teams’ two-deep.
I asked Bill Snyder why exactly has he had so much success with walk-ons and the coach explained that it’s in part because he makes no distinction between the scholarship and non-scholarship guys and doesn’t even know who is on his two-deep is. He said it goes back to his first year in 1989 when he took over a program with under 50 scholarship guys and there was a different locker room for the walk-ons, who got hand-me-downs. He’s changed that and it’s turned into quite a legacy.
Posted on 10/5/15 at 7:32 pm to Cheese Grits
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Bill Snyder
Interesting story. I think that there is some validity to playing walk-ons, as they are almost guaranteed to play with more determination and desire than your scholly kids, but by their very definition they lack talent. Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard, but unfortunately the rest of the conference has kids with talent *and* hard work. We don't have much of either.
Posted on 10/6/15 at 7:42 am to Cockopotamus
Every team needs a Rudy, it's inspiring to everyone. Every team doesn't need 7 of them, that's cause for concern.
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