Do walk-ons still exist in college sports?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My suspicion is that at a NESCAC, probably not. Those guys are all DI caliber athletes who chose to attend those schools. Probably more likely at other DIII schools.

This is not true.

To the person who posted this, to which sport or sports are you referring ? (Certainly not the case in football, track, cross-country, and tennis.) Are you referring to swimming, soccer & lacrosse ? Doubtful re: baseball.

[Anonymous]

Definitely NOT for basketball.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My suspicion is that at a NESCAC, probably not. Those guys are all DI caliber athletes who chose to attend those schools. Probably more likely at other DIII schools.

This is not true.

To the person who posted this, to which sport or sports are you referring ? (Certainly not the case in football, track, cross-country, and tennis.) Are you referring to swimming, soccer & lacrosse ? Doubtful re: baseball.

Nescac men’s soccer are NOT d1 players

I don’t know about other sports but the gap is pretty large. NESCAC players specifically do not play transitions and counter attack nearly at the speed and precision of d1

I don’t know if the gap is smaller between nescac and d1 on the women’s side

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Definitely NOT for basketball.

Sometimes you do get guys like Duncan Robinson who play a year in the ‘cac and then quickly you can tell he has no business playing at that level

He’s the exception that proves the rule

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a kid who walked onto a D1 college baseball team as a pitcher. Seems like college teams have a gazillion pitchers so I guess if you can throw 90...why not add one more.

Not sure the kid will ever play in a game or really just like a "practice squad" kind of add.

Do we know the same kid? We know a kid who is now a D1 pitcher after walking on. His trajectory just didn’t line up with recruiting timelines and he kept getting bigger and throwing harder.

[Anonymous]

Yes. UT football player earned a scholarship this year after performing very well as a walk-on.

[Anonymous]

DC did walk-on for UVA rowing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC did walk-on for UVA rowing

My first quick, read led me to believe that your DC walks-on water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a kid who walked onto a D1 college baseball team as a pitcher. Seems like college teams have a gazillion pitchers so I guess if you can throw 90...why not add one more.

Not sure the kid will ever play in a game or really just like a "practice squad" kind of add.

Do we know the same kid? We know a kid who is now a D1 pitcher after walking on. His trajectory just didn’t line up with recruiting timelines and he kept getting bigger and throwing harder.

I don’t think so. He just finished freshman year. Didn’t play in a game this year.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]30 years ago, my DH walked on to the lacrosse team at a NESCAC. Is that still a thing, or are all athletes recruited these days?[/quote]

Yes friends kid had a BS Coach call an ivy coach and get him off the WL to be a walk on to the crew team, which has 5-6 strings so the bottom kids are usually “favors” . Happens all the time

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My suspicion is that at a NESCAC, probably not. Those guys are all DI caliber athletes who chose to attend those schools. Probably more likely at other DIII schools.

This is not true.

To the person who posted this, to which sport or sports are you referring ? (Certainly not the case in football, track, cross-country, and tennis.) Are you referring to swimming, soccer & lacrosse ? Doubtful re: baseball.

Nescac men’s soccer are NOT d1 players

I don’t know about other sports but the gap is pretty large. NESCAC players specifically do not play transitions and counter attack nearly at the speed and precision of d1

I don’t know if the gap is smaller between nescac and d1 on the women’s side

Yet another reason why the 30-40% recruited athletes at some of these schools is, well, ridiculous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My suspicion is that at a NESCAC, probably not. Those guys are all DI caliber athletes who chose to attend those schools. Probably more likely at other DIII schools.

This is not true.

To the person who posted this, to which sport or sports are you referring ? (Certainly not the case in football, track, cross-country, and tennis.) Are you referring to swimming, soccer & lacrosse ? Doubtful re: baseball.

Nescac men’s soccer are NOT d1 players

I don’t know about other sports but the gap is pretty large. NESCAC players specifically do not play transitions and counter attack nearly at the speed and precision of d1

I don’t know if the gap is smaller between nescac and d1 on the women’s side

Yet another reason why the 30-40% recruited athletes at some of these schools is, well, ridiculous.

It is

Nescac should go full club/walk on and drop all recruitment for sports a la the British system

[Anonymous]

Yea

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My suspicion is that at a NESCAC, probably not. Those guys are all DI caliber athletes who chose to attend those schools. Probably more likely at other DIII schools.

Hahahaha. Maybe water polo or something esoteric. In a revenue sport, or even a main Olympic sport like track and field or wrestling, the NESCACs would be slaughtered by most D1 sports. The ivies are D1 and it’s an even when they beat a P5 team.

[Anonymous]

Yep DS walkon
Division 1 LAX

Funny he hated the parents at his HS so he quit LAX senior year. Didn't play. He is our youngest we were like yay no more sporting games, opps 4 more years..... LOL