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In concern to walk-ons: Each NCAA Division I team - FBS or FCS - is allowed to bring 95 players to camp. At the FBS level, between 80 and 85 of these players are full scholarship kids. At the FCS level, between 65 and 80 of the kids are on scholarship, hardly any on full rides. The limit of players a team can bring to camp was just boosted from 90 to 95. Preferred walk-ons are a part of the 95 players that come to camp. They are invited to be there.p8nted wrote:ON walk-ons I heard that
Preferred walk ons get to start fall practice early with the team
walk ons have to wait until school is in session.
Is that true? Either way as a walk on I would try to make sure I can start practice early in august with the scholarship players and not have to wait until school starts and be behind already
A kicker walking on is not unusual today. Many FBS programs like Nebraska end up with walk on kickers getting the job. rooting for the West kid
We used to call it "getting on the 90". If you are on the 90, or I guess now the 95, you are a part of the team. Once camp starts, you are treated like every other player, basically.
If you are a walk-on who isn't preferred, that means you are walking on based solely on your own desire to play. VERY few walk-ons who aren't on the active roster are invited or encouraged by the coaches to join the team. During most of the fall season, a team carries 104 players, meaning about nine kids will make it after fall camp is over. Most of those who do make it are relegated to scout team duties all season if not forever.
At the FCS level, a fair share of players have gone from preferred walk-on to star. It's much more rare to see a kid miss camp then turn into a star. Without going through camp, a player is that much further behind and, more importantly, doesn't have the respect of his teammates because he didn't endure the grind they just completed.