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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I "walked on" to my Ivy college team. Coach didn't know or recruit me. I called when I got there and the coach said I could try out at fall ball along with a few others. I got lucky and made it. Everyone else was recruited or known to the coach and their admission was enabled by him. I was referred to the coaches as a "walk on" who worked harder than everyone else to make it.

But what do they know?[/quote]

The coaches were borrowing a term from the D-1 football world. I guess they found an accurate description --- people we didn't recruit or sponsored in the Admissions process who just showed up" --- to be too long.

Just because they used the term inaccurately, doesn't change what it means specifically. According to you, they used it to describe anybody they didn't recruit. Although the bar to being a "a recruit" is so low that it excludes few potential players. If you received a letter in one of the mass mailings and filled out the form and sent it in, you officially become a "recruit" regardless of what other contact you had with the coaching staff or whether you were one of the athletes the Athletic Department lobbied for in the admissions process.

What the term actually refers to is any athlete that receives no scholarship money.

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In DI basketball, there are rarely more than 10 or so scholarship players even though they are allowed more. The rest of the team consists of "walk-ons" or non-scholarship players, who practice with the team and play only at the end of games when the outcome is no longer in doubt. Sometimes "walk-ons" in both football and basketball earn a scholarship and become scholarship players.

A "preferred walk-on" is a new term that has crept into the lexicon. It's a clever bit of marketing. It says to the "recruit", "We aren't going to give you any scholarship money. But we would like you to apply to our school and if you get in you are welcome to try out for the team. You are different from other "walk-ons" in our eyes."

The Ivies and Division III schools technically have no "Walk-ons" because they don't offer scholarships.

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Does the coach weigh in with Admissions for the so-called "preferred walk-on"?[/quote][/quote]

Ivy's don't call them walk ons...just unrecruited[/quote]

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