Is their an NCAA rule about when a team can no longer add walk-ons?
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I don't believe such a rule exists. I remember Texas Tech adding a kicker to the roster mid-way through the year from one of those student-kicks-a-FG-for-a-prize things a few years back.
And I agree that surely there's got to be a few people on campus, football players or otherwise, who could walk on and add a few minutes of depth apiece.
So we're taking only 8 to Hawai'i...what happens if someone gets hurt and then 3 guys foul out? Do we play with 4, or do we forfeit? Either way, we need a few more bodies on the bench.
And I agree that surely there's got to be a few people on campus, football players or otherwise, who could walk on and add a few minutes of depth apiece.
So we're taking only 8 to Hawai'i...what happens if someone gets hurt and then 3 guys foul out? Do we play with 4, or do we forfeit? Either way, we need a few more bodies on the bench.
[FONT=Tahoma, Calibri, Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif]I'm just wondering if Ray is seriously about to fly to Maui with 8 basketball players and 2 of those are Baxter Price and Tyson Cunningham? How hard is it to have an open try-out for current students? Hell just walk over to the 17ing Sanderson Center and ask the 5 guys with the most skill to help the school out for a semester. This has turned into a joke. As soon as Ray kicked off two players he should have made finding walk-ons priority one. He's had 6 months to find walk ons. I could find him walk ons in 6 hours and every single one of them would be better than Baxter Price and Tyson Cunningham. Hell Kentucky is giving major minutes to a walk on PG. Swallow your pride Rick Ray and go ask for some help. [/FONT]
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But didn't Ray put out an ad on campus for tryouts before the season started? I remember talking about it.
But didn't Ray put out an ad on campus for tryouts before the season started? I remember talking about it.
Bruce Ellington was recruited and signed to play basketball and has been playing for SC since 2010. Basketball is his primary focus; he even said he was giving up football to concentrate on basketball last spring before reneging a few days later. It wouldn't be as easy as you think to just go out and find walk-on talent better than what we have now in the student body. If you'd felt the need to try two years ago, one of the first players you'd have identified in the Sanderson is Tyson Cunningham. I played with or watched him on multiple occasions, and he'd routinely make everyone else in the gym look terrible. The talent gap between D-1 caliber players and the best players in the rec gym is much greater than it appears.
I know some people who could have made the basketball team but didn't try out because of Ray's stipulations.
For what it's worth, I've watched Matthew Wells dominate everyone in the Sanderson. Guy has one of the nicest layups I've ever seen.
For what it's worth, I've watched Matthew Wells dominate everyone in the Sanderson. Guy has one of the nicest layups I've ever seen.
Eric Moulds had the best dunk I've ever seen one night playing in the tin gym. You can bet there are a couple of football players that could help out. Always is.
I wonder if there are any special teams heroes or guys who know they don't have a shot at the NFL that would walk on. Seriously. I wonder if Ray has already considered it. They'd come in in better shape than the rest of the team already.
I imagine that we would play with 4. As long as he was well ahead, I believe that Roy Williams would play with 4 also in that case.
I know Mullen would never really want the football players to play, but you can't tell me dak isn't more talented than air
/Dak has to be good, he was tweeting about his team winning the football teams' basketball 3on3 tournament 'during offseason of his rs year'
..I am not saying just bring the guys over and give them a spot, but if they practice hard and earn it ...why would we not do this
I was told yesterday a manager/water boy sprained his ankle at practice ...saying because there wasn't enough to do a drill the water boy had to step in ...really?
We need size surely Malcolm Johnson could help in the post with rebounds.
/Dak has to be good, he was tweeting about his team winning the football teams' basketball 3on3 tournament 'during offseason of his rs year'
..I am not saying just bring the guys over and give them a spot, but if they practice hard and earn it ...why would we not do this
I was told yesterday a manager/water boy sprained his ankle at practice ...saying because there wasn't enough to do a drill the water boy had to step in ...really?
We need size surely Malcolm Johnson could help in the post with rebounds.