Thoughts on PWO Playing Time

#51
#51
GVF said:
Last season he was a freshman. But never listed on the roster. I think I found one roster that had him listed but not on UTSports. I googled him extensively and could not find any media release of him transferring. Nothing in him after he was announced as a PWO. Kinda weird.
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He had full ride offers I believe. Lot of PWO QB’s disappear...cept Zac Jancek and his school was covered.
 
#52
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butchna said:
He had full ride offers I believe. Lot of PWO QB’s disappear...cept Zac Jancek and his school was covered.
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Yeah. He had about 4 FCS offers or smaller FBS. Maybe one of them came back and made good.
 
#53
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jim pique said:
If the preferences walk on is better than a scholarship player,PLAY HIM!What idiot would play the lesser of two players simply because one is on scholarship?This appears to be a question by a Yahoo who worries about one person's vocal inflection when saying something.If you are good enough,you play them.GBO
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I think the fan base is going to be very disappointed in what's about to happen this year with some of this. Pay attention to the sidelines this week. It's about to go down #GBO
 
#54
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PWOs have very little chance of playing for an established coach with a roster full of scholarship players he recruited. The coach would look like a bad talent evaluated to play a guy he didn’t really recruit over a guy he recruited, evaluated, and offered a scholly to. The best chance a PWO has to play is early in a coach’s career when half the roster is full of guys he didn’t evaluate or offer.
 
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VolPack22 said:
If there are no available scholarships and a PWO is good enough to play in meaningful games then he should be put on scholarship and the guy who got his spot taken by said PWO should have to be a PWO.
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It would still have the appearance of an evaluation error by a coach who is paid millions to evaluate players
 
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EZE said:
This is where you get lost. We likely have 4-star and in most case 5-star players in each position group. If a PWO had these equal characteristics, especially equal ability, then he wouldn’t be a 2-star walk on. He would be a 4 to 5-star scholarship player somewhere.
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Bingo. PWO's come to Tennessee to learn from a specific coach, attend a favorite school, a girl, whatever the reason. The reason he's a PWO isn't because he's rated by some service or camp. It's because he didn't have many scholarship options to schools he wanted to attend. All I'm hearing when I read the OP is me/my son/my friend is outplaying player x in his mind and wants people to share his opinion that he should start over whatever player he thinks he's beating. I'm going to trust Pruitt here, plain and simple. Whoever he plays he thinks gives Tennessee the best opportunity at that moment.
 
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Kinglberry said:
Bingo. PWO's come to Tennessee to learn from a specific coach, attend a favorite school, a girl, whatever the reason. The reason he's a PWO isn't because he's rated by some service or camp. It's because he didn't have many scholarship options to schools he wanted to attend. All I'm hearing when I read the OP is me/my son/my friend is outplaying player x in his mind and wants people to share his opinion that he should start over whatever player he thinks he's beating. I'm going to trust Pruitt here, plain and simple. Whoever he plays he thinks gives Tennessee the best opportunity at that moment.
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First of all, a couple of you posters need to pull you panties out of your rear. Your first instinct is to hammer someone for asking a logical question. The first portion of the original post was simply a hypothetical in order to frame the upcoming question. The question was simply if a PWO should be disqualified for the sole reason that he isn't a scholarship player, and basically has the scarlet letters on him? That is all, really not too difficult to answer yes or no.
 
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UCDog90 said:
First of all, a couple of you posters need to pull you panties out of your rear. Your first instinct is to hammer someone for asking a logical question. The first portion of the original post was simply a hypothetical in order to frame the upcoming question. The question was simply if a PWO should be disqualified for the sole reason that he isn't a scholarship player, and basically has the scarlet letters on him? That is all, really not too difficult to answer yes or no.
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No panties in a wad, I wear a thong. You're welcome though to use your teeth to pull it from my hairy....

If your premise to this question is entirely hypothetical and has no bearing on any player. Then your question is dumb. If a PWO has zero chance of ever seeing the field because he isn't a scholarship player, then why would any coach waste their time recruiting him. To practice against? They've got bodies of guys on campus already to do that enough to accomplish the task, plus plenty of 3rd stringers needing the reps. If a coach spends any time on an athlete to then offer the PWO he must see something in him that possibly could blossom once in the program and he matures. Basically your question has no merit as it is a duh answer.
 
#59
#59
PWO or WO if they ball out and are better than the scholly players, they play. You find a way to get them a scholly when one becomes available.
 
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UCDog90 said:
First of all, a couple of you posters need to pull you panties out of your rear. Your first instinct is to hammer someone for asking a logical question. The first portion of the original post was simply a hypothetical in order to frame the upcoming question. The question was simply if a PWO should be disqualified for the sole reason that he isn't a scholarship player, and basically has the scarlet letters on him? That is all, really not too difficult to answer yes or no.
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UCDog90,
I went through your VN post history as from your interactions in this thread my first inclinations was to speculate you have a youngin in your family trying to crack UT's rotation.

I don't think that anymore but I'd like to know if you're a HS or developmental football coach in any capacity?

Since 2015 your post interaction has been almost specifically focussing on walk-on/PWO players at 3rd to no string on our depth chart and our respective coaching staffs willingness to give those players an opportunity to prove themselves. I find your focus of the non scholly'd athletes on our roster as really cool and if you're not a coach would you be willing to give any insight as to why?

The best colloquial answer I can give is; "yes they will be given every fair opportunity to earn playing time". Pruitt has already brought in lower starred players because he 'saw something'. I believe during Cheney's last tenure he started two walk-ons on the OL. Finally last year Pruitt awarded PWO-Paul Bain a full scholarship when Paul Bain asked for it because "he'd earned it".
 
#62
#62
Get your best talent on the field and worry about where it came from when you retire.
 
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