MGB: Saturday running blog

[Brett Vito]

MGB (updated with photo of bowl watch, highlights of the scrimmage portion of practice)

http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/2014/03/saturday-running-blog.html/

Edited March 22, 2014 by Brett Vito

[H-towngreen]

Worst running blog evah. Much better with the update now! Seems to always have connection problems that don't allow him to keep it running.

Edited March 22, 2014 by H-towngreen

[greenminer]

Circle drill will never get old. Where's some video, athletics?

[FirefightnRick]

Bowl cake?

A little post-practice cake for the team to go along with their bowl watches. #DidntLastLong pic.twitter.com/Egl2RJGwwN

— Eric Capper (@Eric_Capper)

March 22, 2014

Rick

[SilverEagle]

I'm just wondering why they don't give the walk-on QB's any reps in the scrimmages.

[SilverEagle]

Because they are behind four scholarship players that this staff actually recruited.

....and didn't this same staff invite them to walk-on?

I'm glad they didn't treat Kenny Buyers the same way. We would have missed out on a really great DB.

[H-towngreen]

I'm just wondering why they don't give the walk-on QB's any reps in the scrimmages.

Bc there aren't enough scrimmage snaps to divide amongst 6 players.

[SilverEagle]

Bc there aren't enough scrimmage snaps to divide amongst 6 players.

Once again......they invited them! And put them out there in full pads. And for what?

[pastorgrant]

I get your point, but let's hope that we soon reach the point when we don't need to count on walk-ons to save the day and have the proper scholarships players in place.

I want them to generally give walk-ons a fair chance, but at the same time want the walk-on starter or even primary backup to be the rare exception and not the rule, like it has been too often.

The only walk-on I want to see out there would be a punter.

We have had some great walk-ons. I don't mind a bit if we start a bunch of Kenny Buyers, Chris Hurd, and Casey Fitzgeralds.

[H-towngreen]

Once again......they invited them! And put them out there in full pads. And for what?

They invited them to walk on. Not be handed a scholarship. It just means they have to prove themselves more. They have to prove themselves in drills in order to earn practice snaps. They have to prove themselves in those practice snaps that they can handle being in a game situation. Maybe one day they will earn a full ride. You can point to the success stories but more often than not walk ons don't ever see the field. They are valuable bodies that help out in practice.

[NT03]

Not all walk ons are recruited to do such. In fact, I think it's some kind of NCAA rule that states contacting a recruit more than 3 times requires athlete to be placed on scholarship. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong , but rules are something along those lines

[UNT90]

I'm just wondering why they don't give the walk-on QB's any reps in the scrimmages.

I'm sure if the coaching staff saw something in them in the reps they did get, they would be getting more.

That the way college football go

[SilverEagle]

They invited them to walk on. Not be handed a scholarship. It just means they have to prove themselves more. They have to prove themselves in drills in order to earn practice snaps. They have to prove themselves in those practice snaps that they can handle being in a game situation. Maybe one day they will earn a full ride. You can point to the success stories but more often than not walk ons don't ever see the field. They are valuable bodies that help out in practice.

Please stop putting words in my mouth. I never suggested that anyone be handed anything.....except possibly the opportunity to show what they can do. In addition to Kenny Buyers, you can ask our last years starting center, Kaydon Kirby, how they felt about getting an opportunity to walk on and show what they could do.

Now, as to limited time. I find it interesting that Clayton Adams, a walk-on from Granbury has been out getting scrimmage reps since the first day. He has made some good grabs and from my observation he runs pretty good routes....and it doesn't hurt that he's 6'5". I've also observed a small RB, who's name I was told was "Smith" (wearing #32) getting scrimmage reps from day one. And while Mr. Evans was being singled out for his long TD run (as he should be) Mr. Smith was also given the opportunity (via reps) to show what he could do yesterday. Like Mr. Evans Mr. Smith responded with a weaving-in-and-out-of-heavy-traffic long (15+yrds) TD run.

Now, we have (including the mysterious Mr. Smith) 8 rbs out there, and at least 12 wr's. All of which have gotten reps up to this point during practice.

Two of the QB candidates have been on campus for at least two years and both have actually put their cleats on the field during a game. So we might already have at least an idea about their abilities. Four have not. And as of yesterday, I have only observed two of those four getting scrimmage reps.

I asked a simple (and civil) question and in some cases I get my meaning twisted around and in other cases I get dismissive attitude.

Pretty soon, I'm going to switch from giving people Alien Ales to drink (for being good sports and/or giving insightful answers) to hitting them over the head with the bottle.....empty of course.

[H-towngreen]

Apologies.

They invited them to walk on with the opportunity to earn a scholarship. It just means they have to prove themselves more. They have to prove themselves in drills in order to earn practice snaps. They have to prove themselves in those practice snaps that they can handle being in a game situation. Maybe one day they will earn a full ride. You can point to the success stories but more often than not walk ons don't ever see the field. They are valuable bodies that help out in practice.

[greenminer]

Evaluations begin from the moment you send in tape and walk in the door.

If a walk-on isn't getting any snaps at all at this point, I am going to trust that the staff has already seen enough to put their on-field opportunity on hold.

We have an incredible walk-on program, with many success stories. I wonder how many of those (Fitz, Hurd, etc...) didn't emerge until after getting scout team reps?