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His skill set and body type are made for a fullback. Fullbacks, almost more than any other position in football, are pretty muxh what they are. Unless they can play MLB, they just don’t fit another position well. Usually too slow or lack the agility to be a RB, too short to be a TE, and don’t have the speed to play LB.
I believe we were at 89 after Darlingron left.
EDIT: We dropped to 88 after POB left.
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I agree on Guy Thomas. I can understand him struggling a bit in coverage, but watching the spring game he brought nothing to the pass rush and he got pushed around in the run game.
Sounds like a lot of guys could still transfer out and get below 85. Do we really want to get below 85 though? Yeah most of the guys mentioned aren't the best fit or are unlikely to see a lot of playing time, but I'd still prefer to keep them on the roster than see a lot of them transfer. You never know if a kid is going to have the light come on and end up being one of our better players. Or even if Frost wants to experiment with tweaking his system a bit and one of the tweener guys who normally wouldn't have a role ends up being just the guy we need. That's why I didn't want to see Ben Miles leave, you never know if having a fullback would add another element to Frost's offense.
My guess is they will be right at 85 when the season starts. IMO Frost will award scholarships to walkons just before the season starts. My memory isn't always that great but I recall Osborne giving scholarships to senior walkons just because he could.
My memory IS pretty good.
I remember every coach since Osborne honoring the walkon tradition and giving scholarships to those players that have put in the work, along with the talent.
Osborne was also coach back in the days when 120+ players could be on scholarship.
1973 brought about the first limitations on football scholarships in order to free up money for women's sports after Title IX was passed by Congress in 1972 as part of the Equal Opportunity in Education Act. This caused the NCAA schools' presidents and athletic directors to push through a limit of 105 football scholarships. Additional reductions were made in 1978 (95) and again in 1992 which brought the limit to its present number of 85
Well yeah that's great to have walkons get scholarships, especially if we already have fewer than 85. What I don't get is we seem to be encouraging some players to leave to get to under 85 and I just don't think that's necessary. We can use all the bodies we can get, and actively encouraging some players to leave the program to make room for walkons getting scholarships doesn't make sense to me.
I believe the thing is that there are players that are going to leave that don't fit the system, don't want to put in the work or whatever. There are people that want to get rid of those players to free up scholarships. By the time these players leave, the only options to fill those scholarships are walk ons or grad transfers. The other option is to leave the scholarships unused. Which the last staffs have done and were widely criticized for.
Or i guess you can keep players on scholarship that don't fit the system, don't want to work or whatever just to keep the number at 85. But the lack of recycling of players, again something that Nebraska staffs have been criticized for.
Or i guess you can keep players on scholarship that don't fit the system, don't want to work or whatever just to keep the number at 85. But the lack of recycling of players, again something that Nebraska staffs have been criticized for.
Get it to 84 and then pick up one stud grad transfer at a position of need?
If you don't land that transfer, then you award to most deserving walk-on....
That is what I would do. And I am a highly respected coach..... by at least a dozen people on the planet earth!
If you don't land that transfer, then you award to most deserving walk-on....
That is what I would do. And I am a highly respected coach..... by at least a dozen people on the planet earth!
Remember that in order to get Bryant and Vedral on scholarship, they need to get down to 83, so that is a minimum of 4 more. To get a grad transfer, you need to get to 82 (5 more), to award more than 1 walk on, down to 81, or 6 more.
Same with Vedral how can he go on scholarship this year when his transfer was blocked?
The thing with awarding walkons when you're already over the limit is it forces a scholarship player to leave and the walk on probably won't see a better chance of seeing the field than the scholarship player. If you kept the scholarship guy on the roster, the walk on guy won't be hurt by that because he's in the same position he was in by continuing to be a walk on, and by keeping the scholarship guy on the roster you have a higher chance of finding a player who will be able to contribute.
Vedral doesn't go on scholarship until next year, I believe, as UCF didn't give him his release.
Vedral's scholarship can only be blocked for a year.
Moses Bryant, to my understanding, was told he would be put on scholarship in the fall.
According to Sean Callahan, he should go on scholarship in June, although I have yet to read anything that said he would get his release from UCF...
Correct. I should have been more clear. Blocked for a typical school year. (Fall and spring semesters)
walk ons who don't have a chance of seeing the field don't go on scholarship. Only walk ons who have already contributed or who are in line for extensive playing time go on scholarship.
There are some that think that UCF will eventually pull their restriction and fully release him and that will allow NU to put him on scholarship this fall.
