Hammer, Love your passion but you are missing the boat on the preferred walk on program. It is not a negative. It allows the school to add extra kids to the roster without counting against scholarship limits. I have expkained the process before. These kids will recieve state aid, some of them will get full aid. They can earn a full scholarship anytime but if it is given before the finish their 2nd yr it counts against the original signing yr. Thats why you see the walk ons get redshirted, that buys the team an extra yr and you see that they will earn the scholarship when they head into their RS sophmore yr. All the schools do it including the FBS schools. Just look up an article on it and it will explain a lot. Clay Mathews was a prefered walk on at USC. With todays signings that brings the total # of in state kids to 60 I believe. You cant ask for more than that locally.