Recruiting Watch: Eddie Smith

[Requiem For A Dawg]

Recruiting gurus seem to think it’s between us and Bama, if they have room for him. Tenn seems to be out of the picture.

We really need Bama to flip Patrick Surtain Jr from LSU. Looks like about a 50/50 shot at this point.

It does help we offered his teammate a preferred walk-on spot.

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

The preferred walk on thing always gets me.... yeah we will let you come here, pay your own way and be a tackling dummy....

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

The preferred walk on thing always gets me.... yeah we will let you come here, pay your own way and be a tackling dummy....

Eh, it’s still a way to play big time football and possibly earn your way into a scholarship and onto the field.

 

[5049]

They would not have offered him if they didn't think he could potentially grow into a scholarship player.

 

[Requiem For A Dawg]

The preferred walk on thing always gets me.... yeah we will let you come here, pay your own way and be a tackling dummy....

Well he accepted the walk-on spot and his 24/7 profile shows several offers from smaller schools.

 

[MSUDawgFan86]

The preferred walk on thing always gets me.... yeah we will let you come here, pay your own way and be a tackling dummy....

You’re apart of the football team and have a shot to compete for a scholarship. No one held a gun to his head and made him.

 

[Msubulldogfan1]

Wasn’t one of bamas starting CBs in the NCG a former walk on?

Look at Jace Christman for that matter.

 

[5049]

and Ben Beckwith

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

You get to be on a SEC football team. I think 100% of us on here who played high school ball would jump at the opportunity and that less than 10% of us were good enough to have the kind of opportunity.

 

[Shmuley]

Yes. Levi Wallace.

 

[She Mate Me]

You get to be on a SEC football team. I think 100% of us on here who played high school ball would jump at the opportunity and that less than 10% of us were good enough to have the kind of opportunity.

Significantly less than 10%.

 

[tenureplan]

and Tyson Lee

 

[Ranchdawg]

Wasn’t one of bamas starting CBs in the NCG a former walk on?

Look at Jace Christman for that matter.

That's telling 'em! Good post!

 

[coach66]

I was a preferred walk on, in my day it was

A little better to be preferred to uninvited but neither was a cakewalk. I got respect for walk on’s.

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

^^ The <10% ^^

 

[BlueRidgeMtns]

My brother was a preferred walk on at Virginia under Al Groh, who came to his high school personally to ask him to play... then Groh left and Mike London came in after my brother's first year, switching from a 3-4 to a 4-3. Losing that 2nd ILB spot cramped up space with all of their backers and he ended up leaving the team his 3rd year. He never regretted a second of it.

The funny part was, Mike London tried to talk him out of leaving by saying they needed him to stay because his GPA helped the team and he could help keep the other players in line. Yeah, 17 that.

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

And 40% of a Rick Ray starting lineup

 

[FreeDawg]

To Rick Ray's defense, he was a walk-on head coach