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PWO/Walk On 2020

Bullwhip Griffith

Bullwhip Griffith

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Appears the February NSD will add nothing new to the class, so I thought I would list the PWO/Walk Ons I’m aware of for 2020

QB Jack Albers 6’1” 179 University of Dayton

QB Andrew Hobson 6’3” 208 Hamilton Southeastern

RB Caleb Lahey. 5’10” 210
Bismarck-Henning (ILL)

RB Marquiz Munoz. 5’10” 200
Lafayette Jeff

ATH Daniel Roach. 5’9” 175
Central Catholic

WR Jake Smith 6’3” 200 Lafayette Harrison

TE Ben Buechel 6’4” 210
New Berlin WI

OL Gus German* 6’6” 300 Lafayette Central Catholic

OL Luke Morris 6’8” 280 Lafayette McCutcheon

OL Ben Scott. 6’5” 305
Valparaiso

LB Ben Furtney 6’0” 206 St. Charles (ILL)

LB Hayden Ellinger 6’0” 215 Fort Wayne Bishop Dewenger

LB Zac Tuinei* 6’1” 225 Arkansas State University

LS Nick Taylor 6’2” 210
Lawerence North

K Ed Dellinger 6’3” 180
Charlotte County Day School N.C.

K/P Caleb Krockover 5’7” 175
West Lafeyette

P Brenden Cropsey Unk. Unk
Saline High MI

*Will be on campus for Spring practices
 
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nat100 said:
Nice to get a quality developmental prospect at RB.
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Posted this on KHC, but nice stat lines

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Talked to his parents a couple years ago after the spring game. Of course, we were mostly talking about his brother, J. D.

Said that the younger brother was more interested in soccer, and IIRC he wasn't even playing football, but that he had similar kicking ability to J. D.

Nice folks, obviously had traveled from N.C. to see the game.
 
Hoping for an OL transfer portal ready to go type after Spring semester. Probably a long shot, but hoping so. You have to think that a player or two might not like their status on depth chart and would want to be closer to home. The reality of academic casualty have also caught a player or two every year.
I’m not fluent with transfer portal, but hoping it helps us.
 
Is this going to be the most walk ons (or preferred walk ons) that we have ever had? Our team is going to be so big on the sidelines that it is a good thing that we are doing a stadium renovation.

If we can get at least 1 or 2 diamonds in the rough out of this, I guess it will be worth it.
 
jmohlman said:
We had a running back in high school average 48 cal per game. I could see 55 cal per game if that’s the majority of what you do
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Did you go to Lowell? Kirk Kennedy would ground and pound it for the whole game.
 
Another walk on! Nick Taylor. Long snapper. Good work Coach Biagi!

To address some questions on walk-ons. I think lots of walk-ons says good things about the program.

There are more practice bodies, guys who can act as scout team for next opponent, you have guys who learn the system and could fill in during injury, or in some cases develop into a scholarship player.

Another consideration is that with the transfer portal basically being a free agency, scholarship players that are unhappy could leave and create a void. Walk-ons could be even more important, look at Stanford’s depth chart and transfer portal issues. Look at Purdue the last two years for walk-ons, both thieneman brothers, two running backs, a qb and a center played. Just because scholarship players are more physically gifted, they might not understand the system and walk-ons compete and push the scholarship guys. Walk-ons need to have love the game if they want to really be part of the program. Scholarship players don’t have to.

Lastly, consider these two things. We all want Yanni K. He’s a West Lafayette guy, we’ve had probably 6 local walk-ons so far this year, guys like being around their friends... if you need an example, I’ll cite Christian Gonzalez made the decision to play with his friend over Purdue.

Secondly, some of these walk-ons are from other states, such as Texas, North Carolina, Arkansas, Illinois and Ohio. This speaks to our academics along with the football program. Some guys like Aiden O’Connell are choosing to walk-on over a DII or DIII playing time and scholarship.

 
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Another walk on! Nick Taylor. Long snapper. Good work Coach Biagi!

To address some questions on walk-ons. I think lots of walk-ons says good things about the program.

There are more practice bodies, guys who can act as scout team for next opponent, you have guys who learn the system and could fill in during injury, or in some cases develop into a scholarship player.

Another consideration is that with the transfer portal basically being a free agency, scholarship players that are unhappy could leave and create a void. Walk-ons could be even more important, look at Stanford’s depth chart and transfer portal issues. Look at Purdue the last two years for walk-ons, both thieneman brothers, two running backs, a qb and a center played. Just because scholarship players are more physically gifted, they might not understand the system and walk-ons compete and push the scholarship guys. Walk-ons need to have love the game if they want to really be part of the program. Scholarship players don’t have to.

Lastly, consider these two things. We all want Yanni K. He’s a West Lafayette guy, we’ve had probably 6 local walk-ons so far this year, guys like being around their friends... if you need an example, I’ll cite Christian Gonzalez made the decision to play with his friend over Purdue.

Secondly, some of these walk-ons are from other states, such as Texas, North Carolina, Arkansas, Illinois and Ohio. This speaks to our academics along with the football program. Some guys like Aiden O’Connell are choosing to walk-on over a DII or DIII playing time and scholarship.

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Very good points and align with past observations I've also made regarding walk-on players. For further examples we need look no further than Wisconsin and the various linemen that have gone from walk-on to starter(and even among the best in the Big Ten) over the years. To paraphrase Belushi in Animal House, " grab a walk-on, don't cost nothin".
 
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jindy said:
Very good points and align with past observations I've also made regarding walk-on players. For further examples we need look no further than Wisconsin and the various linemen that have gone from walk-on to starter(and even among the best in the Big Ten) over the years. To paraphrase Belushi in Animal House, " grab a walk-on, don't cost nothin".
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Lest we forget, Sam Garvin was a walk on.

Word I got was that spring ball was going very well for him.
 
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SKYDOG said:
Did you go to Lowell? Kirk Kennedy would ground and pound it for the whole game.[/QUOTE
Carroll HS in DAYTON, Ohio
Matt Leopard was his name
1,200 yards and 22 TDS after 6 games the. Broke his ankle
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