How many walk ons per year did we take in the 90s
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I don't understand the question.
Title 9 was enacted in the 1970's and has nothing to do with walkons.
Title 9 was enacted in the 1970's and has nothing to do with walkons.
I was under the impression that the FB program used to be able to have a lot more players on the roster but then with Title 9 they had to cut that down because there has to be a certain ratio between male and female athletes on a campus. Therefore they were able to accomodate more walk-on players before Title 9 was passed. Maybe I misunderstand that.
My main question is how many walk-ons did we take per year when the walk-on program was really up and operating well?
Title IX had nothing to do with walk-ons, whatsoever.
At one point during the Solich era Nebraska had almost 200 names on the roster. Too many. Do they really need another 115 people to run drills at practice? Because 200 people aren't fitting into the locker room, or weight room, or film room, or meetings.
I used to track walk-on classes, and I think there were some with 35 recruits. As you can imagine, some didn't last very long. Paying your own way to get your butt kicked in practice every day isn't for everybody.
At one point during the Solich era Nebraska had almost 200 names on the roster. Too many. Do they really need another 115 people to run drills at practice? Because 200 people aren't fitting into the locker room, or weight room, or film room, or meetings.
I used to track walk-on classes, and I think there were some with 35 recruits. As you can imagine, some didn't last very long. Paying your own way to get your butt kicked in practice every day isn't for everybody.
I don't know all the rules of title IX, but Bill Moos was on sports nightly last night and someone called in and asked specifically about the walk on program and growing it. His response was that there was some things that they were looking at, but that every athlete, walk on or otherwise, counted in the total numbers.
I did a little digging and found an article called "Wrestling with Title IX". The story was more about why a lot of wrestling programs are going away, but there was a paragraph in there talking about how the law changed in 1996. It started with the following sentence -
"In 1996, the Department of Education further bolstered the proportionality zealots by requiring colleges to count every name on a team's roster -- scholarship and nonscholarship athletes, starters and nonstarters."
That doesn't answer your question of walk on kids in the 90's, but Title IX does come into play after 1996.
"In 1996, the Department of Education further bolstered the proportionality zealots by requiring colleges to count every name on a team's roster -- scholarship and nonscholarship athletes, starters and nonstarters."
That doesn't answer your question of walk on kids in the 90's, but Title IX does come into play after 1996.
Walk-on program will never be what it was primarily because of logistics. Stai made this plainly clear when he was involved with the program just a few years ago.
Frost can't coach 200 kids, even with a 10th coach and 2 GAs. He'll give in-state players their due, and he might be able to convince a couple more kids to stick around and pay their way....
but he's really shown he's going to have a national, probably coastal focus, just like Riley and Pelini and Callahan did, with Florida being an area he mines for 3* type of talent if he misses on the big boys.
I know folks thought we might take 2 QBs in this class, but as of yet, Ruder seems to have not been contacted, and he'd probably be a pretty easy pluck as he's definitely a radius kid.
Frost can't coach 200 kids, even with a 10th coach and 2 GAs. He'll give in-state players their due, and he might be able to convince a couple more kids to stick around and pay their way....
but he's really shown he's going to have a national, probably coastal focus, just like Riley and Pelini and Callahan did, with Florida being an area he mines for 3* type of talent if he misses on the big boys.
I know folks thought we might take 2 QBs in this class, but as of yet, Ruder seems to have not been contacted, and he'd probably be a pretty easy pluck as he's definitely a radius kid.
Walk-on program will never be what it was primarily because of logistics. Stai made this plainly clear when he was involved with the program just a few years ago.
Frost can't coach 200 kids, even with a 10th coach and 2 GAs. He'll give in-state players their due, and he might be able to convince a couple more kids to stick around and pay their way....
but he's really shown he's going to have a national, probably coastal focus, just like Riley and Pelini and Callahan did, with Florida being an area he mines for 3* type of talent if he misses on the big boys. He's doing a pretty good job IMO of keeping it somewhat balanced.
I know folks thought we might take 2 QBs in this class, but as of yet, Ruder seems to have not been contacted, and he'd probably be a pretty easy pluck as he's definitely a radius kid.
Frost can't coach 200 kids, even with a 10th coach and 2 GAs. He'll give in-state players their due, and he might be able to convince a couple more kids to stick around and pay their way....
but he's really shown he's going to have a national, probably coastal focus, just like Riley and Pelini and Callahan did, with Florida being an area he mines for 3* type of talent if he misses on the big boys. He's doing a pretty good job IMO of keeping it somewhat balanced.
I know folks thought we might take 2 QBs in this class, but as of yet, Ruder seems to have not been contacted, and he'd probably be a pretty easy pluck as he's definitely a radius kid.
https://sites.google.com/site/nebraskafootballhistory/walk-ons
Here is a pretty good walk-on history to reference.
Here is a pretty good walk-on history to reference.
Title IX is about equal opportunity to participate. Does not matter if a scholarship is involved.
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