USA Today: At North Texas, it's the walk-ons who keep the Mean Green running

jperg2 · August 16, 2015

At North Texas, it's the walk-ons who keep the Mean Green running

meanrob · August 16, 2015

At North Texas, it's the walk-ons who keep the Mean Green running

Great article, not so sure those numbers are a great thing.

Eppie96 · August 16, 2015

Agree- nice article. I don't think those numbers are such a great thing and I don't think NT should be considered "Walk On U". Wow...37% of the roster is walk ons.

Of course Mac points out that these walk-on guys are not just filling holes created by bad recruiting.

MeanGreen13 · August 16, 2015

where did you get that number... i believe it is 36/105 are current or former walkons... that really just means that 11 scholarship players are former walk ons and 25 are current... we are likely still 5 scholarships short of the 85 limit so we have 5 more current walkons than are ideal. not really that far out of the ordinary.

H-towngreen · August 16, 2015

Walk-ons are great but you shouldn't have such a heavy number of contributors be former walk-ons. Recruit better, simple as that.

MeanGreen13 · August 16, 2015

I don't think it is necessarily an issue with recruiting per se. obviously, we want to be able to recruit better prepared and more talented guys off the bat but the numbers game never works out all the way to get to 85 scholarships. a lot of schools remedy that by having a few grey shirts mixed in... we tend to go more the walk on route to get the extra spots that we need. expect 2-3 guys to get put on scholarship here in the next few weeks: Cedric Fernandez will certainly be one.

Eppie96 · August 16, 2015

37% was the number that Quartero was quoted as saying in the article. I think it was a total % of the 105 roster spots not of the 85 scholarships, but I am not sure

4MYMGE · August 17, 2015

Walk-ons are good business. A school can get a kid to come in and pay for his school during that red-shirt year. They can find out what the player is made of...how durable he is...and can be sure he is the real deal before they are committed. For the player, it is a hard route to go. Not every kid comes from a highly recruited school. Not every kid knows how to play the recruiting game...Some kids just come to UNT because they want to and my hat's off to him if he makes it.