Seawolves Fans

When local kids are offered a preffered walk on spot, they are given grant money and guaranteed a spot on the roster. Since they are instate residents most recieve full aid for school. By bringing in preffered walk ons it allows you to have 15 - 17 more scholarships on the roster without counting against your scholarship limit. Straight walk ons get no more than a camp tryout, possibly make the team. The team can't offer a preffered walk on a scholarship until after their 2nd year. If they did offer before that then it would count as a scholarship against the PFO's freshman year and thus put the school over the scholly limit for that year. This is why most PFO's are redshirted. By doing this they can be eligible to earn a scholarship for three years. Either way they would still recieve the grant money as long as they remained eligible. The only money PFO's recieve from football is the housing cost for summer camp. This is a good tool that all FBS and FCS schools use, especially state schools. Kids like John Haggert and Jake Carlock recieved scholarships. Anthony Catapano , Stacy Bedell, Isaiah White and Nunez are also examples of local kids on scholarships. Before them Jackolski, Maysonette and Dudley. Although the coach leaves a lot to be desired the preffered walk on program works for the schools. The best example of this is Clay Mathews at USC.