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[QUOTE="sutomcat, post: 314905, member: 27"]
We tried with walk ons and it was a miserable failure. Special teams are far more important than you think. Trying to comparing walk ons at Texas A&M, a public school based in a state with a tremendous amount of talent, and a tradition of supporting walk ons that is second to none, to walk ons at Syracuse, a private school with prohibitive costs for tuition and little incentive, history, tradition or local talent, is just a bad idea.
 
Play the starters and the second team level athletes. The best we have. We don't have the talent in our defensive and offensive units to spot every team we play 10 points a game due to bad special teams play (which we did last season).  As others have explained, rules have been changed that make it less likely a player will get hurt playing special teams (like Sharpe did as a frosh).
 
Play to win. If a player gets hurt doing it, it is a risk that is worth taking. IMHO, we can't have a winning season and go to a bowl playing 6 or 7 walk ons on our coverage units (or return units for that matter).  At this point, the program is finally close to normal depth again.  Let's use it and win some games.
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