UM Football Recruiting - by WM Wolverine

[WM Wolverine]

It means that he'll get a scholarship on years when there is a good bit of attrition after signing day. Hoke would 'award' scholarships to the preferred walk-ons via his discretion.

[iam416]

Alabama insiders feel pretty good about A'Shawn Robinson and Vanderdoes. That would certainly suggest Poggi isn't in their plans.

[WM Wolverine]

Tons of rumors about Poggi, a lot of them involving his dad interviewing for a coaching position at Bama. We'll find out on signing day whether his dad is coaching at Bama.

[WM Wolverine]

Bama should be well past 'full' but they can create room for guys. They don't mind offering gray shirts to kids they promised 4-year scholarships for.

[lineygoblue]

Tons of rumors about Poggi, a lot of them involving his dad interviewing for a coaching position at Bama. We'll find out on signing day whether his dad is coaching at Bama.

Well, Boobie WillYums is still on Nick Saban's staff, so I guess Mr. Poggi has as good a chance to be added to the staff as anyone. Shoot, Saban would probably give ME a coaching job if he wanted my kid bad enough.

But I am still of the opinion that no news is good news. I think if Poggi were going to flip, we'd have heard it from him by now.

[Rocky Bleier]

Unless his dad is an exceptionally douchey douche bag.

[hack]

I think John Wangler has done enough for Michigan football to justify his son being given "preferred walk-on" status on the team.

When Wangler was injured at the Gator Bowl, his prognosis at the time was one of making sure he could walk again, much less come back (as he did) and play football. He was the QB of the team that gave Bo his first bowl victory.

There are kids who are given uniforms to be on the team, .. who run out with the team under the banner at all home games, who never even go to practice. For instance, if I were a fat-cat alumni/donor who wanted to see MY kid in a Michigan football uniform, even if he has never played the game in his life, ... the university will make sure he runs out on the field with a uniform on, and stands on the sideline. Why do you think that there are about 150 kids running out under that banner every week? They are not all on scholarship, nor are they walk-ons.

And they do that at ALL major universities.

When you put it that way, fair enough. If you get to run out in the uniform thanks to your parents doing nothing other than giving money, then you should get extra status if your dad is a program hero. None of it should happen. If the point is to win games, the uniform should be a meritocracy pure and simple. But the point isn't to win games. It's to win games and keep the money flowing in. Or maybe put the winning of games second in that sentence.

Either way, what exactly does preferred walk-on status mean? Better shot at a scholarship, presumably? My guess is that any walk-on, if they're deserving, would get one regardless of previous status?

[Optimus Prime]

Any Update regarding Poggi?

[WM Wolverine]

We'll find out on signing day as Poggi & company aren't talking.

[Da Geezer]

I have no problem in appealing to the vanity of big donors or to the "loyalty" of former starters. Hey, preferred walk on is what it says. If a scholly is available, then the kid gets it (or they can split scholarships in D-II).

I have a big problem in giving Fred Jackson's son a full ride when he always has been a marginal D-1 player. And as I have said often, just give Fred a $ 30,000 raise and pull the kid's scholarship. Let Fred pay Jeremy's way and open up a scholarship.

[lineygoblue]

Nice thought, .. but keep this in mind: Fred Jackson and his recruiting skills just landed us one of the top RB's in the country. Green and his family directly attribute Coach Jackson's efforts as the main reason he committed to Michigan.

So, should his kid have a full ride to the university? Fred may have earned that one.

[hack]

He's paid a salary. It should reflect what he's worth to the team.

[Jeff Buchanan]

If I've got this right, Poggi DOES NOT have to send in a LOI on Wed. I don't know when the end date for such things is. The start of the Semester?

Anyway, if Dad is leveraging a job with his Son, I would think that would absolutely bring the NCAA into the picture on his recruiting. As bad as something like this would be for a number of reasons having nothing to do with losing a top defensive recruit, if it turns out there is a connection, it is the height of recruiting gone wrong in the SEC and nationally.

[iam416]

Give my best to the Greens as the entire family relocates to Ann Arbor!

[lineygoblue]

Shows how much you know.

The house that they've been given is in Saline.

So there.