Mitch Zoloty OL. (IMG) - Offered a Preferred Walk On spot

[plrwkyes]

ill take it if nothing else but to raise our graduation rates

 

[HurricaneUWW]

That could Be pretty huge for us. Dad is very well connected in the football world and has some involvement with the Under Armour all American game.

How do people even know this? Always amazes me. Small world

 

[TheMatador]

Anyone still remember these days... man we have come a long way.

University of Miami Football Team Advertising For "Any Student That Is At Least 6'1 And 230+ Pounds" | Miami New Times

This is when the al golden used car corporate training program was in full effect.

Quote from the article:

Coach Golden's philosophy is you're only as good as your worst guy. If you don't have enough big bodies, you've got a problem."

Problem was golden was the worst of the worst....the ******* demeaned the meaning of the word "philosophy ". His philisophy was throwing **** at the wall and claiming genius when it stuck

Your comment got new thinking about literally, what happens if you throw **** against a wall? How much, if any, sticks? What kind sticks? What is the effect of distance, velocity, texture?

I wonder if anyone has done experiments, perhaps on YouTube.

Who's Applebaum?

 

[Hurricane Warrior]

I do know the walk-on program had deteriorated over the years. Not easy to pull PWOs with Miami's private school tuition costs. You need kids like this who have size and can perform at a reasonably competent and athletic level for scout team. Sometimes these kids develop into quality depth players for special teams or even in the 2 or 3 deep. If he has legit offers from Toledo and Miami (OH) then he'd be a pretty darn good PWO for us. Hope he gets a big fat academic scholarship.

He goes to IMG, pretty sure the tuition won't be a concern...

 

[HurricaneVision]

Preferred walk-ons get a guarantee to be on the team (if they meet team standards, just like anyone else). But they also get access to the trainers table now and can even get housing.

Tuition is expensive- of course- but there are a ton of benefits. If you keep grinding you also get put on scholarship. A lot of times, when there are extra scholarships that year due to attrition etc. coaches will reward a PWO with a scholarship that year so they get to be in the record book as a scholarship player (and not have to pay obviously).

 

[Pentagon Cane]

I do know the walk-on program had deteriorated over the years. Not easy to pull PWOs with Miami's private school tuition costs. You need kids like this who have size and can perform at a reasonably competent and athletic level for scout team. Sometimes these kids develop into quality depth players for special teams or even in the 2 or 3 deep. If he has legit offers from Toledo and Miami (OH) then he'd be a pretty darn good PWO for us. Hope he gets a big fat academic scholarship.

He goes to IMG, pretty sure the tuition won't be a concern...

A lot of these kids are on athletic and academic scholarships so you don't know his financial situation. Not many kids are dropping $70K per year.