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    Quote Originally Posted by XMuskieFTW View Post
    I actually love this move. X doesn't really like to have 13 scholarship players. It creates chemistry issues. To have a guy that we can throw a scholarship(assuming we don't have 13) who will be very good to have in practice, but won't expect any playing time is really the perfect use of a 13th scholarship.
    Right, we're never going to have a rotation of 13 guys, there's just not enough minutes to go around, but if he can practice hard, and push our starters it's an amazing use of a schollie. Even a guy averaging 11 minutes a game at the D1 level is better than a walk-on (no offense to walk ons)

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    Quote Originally Posted by joe titan View Post
    Tim's was special case under extraordinary circumstance b/c Matt was not on scholarship his last season.
    Did you know he was an Uber driver?

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    Quote Originally Posted by joe titan View Post
    Tim's was special case under extraordinary circumstance b/c Matt was not on scholarship his last season.
    Yea I doubt Hanson will have an older brother transfer to X on scholarship and then ask to walk on as a grad student while driving uber so his brother could use the open scholarship and save $30,000+... was just using Tim as another example of someone who went from walk-on to scholarship status.

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    Quote Originally Posted by XMuskieFTW View Post
    I actually love this move. X doesn't really like to have 13 scholarship players. It creates chemistry issues. To have a guy that we can throw a scholarship(assuming we don't have 13) who will be very good to have in practice, but won't expect any playing time is really the perfect use of a 13th scholarship.
    agree

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    He has three years eligibility remaining. I don’t think they are “throwing” a scholarship at someone who won’t play for 3 years.

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    Did anyone say three years? I don't see that in the conversation. But hey, we've had guys who barely got off the bench on scholarship before.

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    So you’re going to offer him a scholarship for a year and then pull it? I mean if he’s ok with that then ok... just seems like a very uncommon situation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lloyd Braun View Post
    So you’re going to offer him a scholarship for a year and then pull it? I mean if he’s ok with that then ok... just seems like a very uncommon situation.
    It may be uncommon but I'm p. sure it has happened before. Hey, a free year of school is a free year of school.

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    Or if I’m being a conspiracy theorist...maybe he is a package deal with another scholarship. He IS from Minnesota hmmmmm

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    We've had it happen on more than one player in recent history. If a guy knows he's being given the opportunity of preferred walk on, and then they say we might have a scholarship for a year, I don't think the program is jerking him around. He could always decline. Full ride isn't a given.

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