Phillymoose
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Can they do it year to year?
So if we don't get the 3 kids we want, you could give Mahoney one for the year, and then re-evaluate?
Agree with you that we need to cover our needs first. But if we come up empty and there's one sitting there, he's a kid I'd like to see get one.
All athletic scholarships are year-to-year. And Mahoney should absolutely be given a scholarship if he remains 2nd on the depth chart into 2016 season.
One - there is a high likelihood we'll have one available, and -two, it is simply the right thing to do. If a walk-on earns his way into the two-deep, you pay for his ride.
Any coach would be fool not to set that precedent as an incentive to surround the team with quality practice players. It will only happen once in a blue moon. I'd feel 100x more comfortable chasing off the recruited players who do not (or cannot) perform then NOT offering a scholarship to a walk-on who worked his way onto the 2-deep.