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TheRealMikeDrake
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Posted: 8/11/2010 8:33 AM
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From the Zanesville Times Recorder:

"The latter is true for Clayton and Craig Luburgh after both earned preferred walk-on status for the Ohio University football team this coming season.

Craig, a 2010 John Glenn graduate, is scheduled to join the Bobcats in September, while Clayton, a 2009 John Glenn alum, will have to wait until January unless a roster spot opens before the season begins."

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Posted: 8/11/2010 9:14 AM
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TheRealMikeDrake wrote:expand_more
From the Zanesville Times Recorder:

"The latter is true for Clayton and Craig Luburgh after both earned preferred walk-on status for the Ohio University football team this coming season.

Craig, a 2010 John Glenn graduate, is scheduled to join the Bobcats in September, while Clayton, a 2009 John Glenn alum, will have to wait until January unless a roster spot opens before the season begins."



Wonder why Luburgh is not on the roster?

He'll probably be on the D side....was a RB/DB and track star at 6'2"-190.



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Posted: 8/11/2010 9:59 AM
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Doc Bobcat wrote:expand_more
From the Zanesville Times Recorder:

"The latter is true for Clayton and Craig Luburgh after both earned preferred walk-on status for the Ohio University football team this coming season.

Craig, a 2010 John Glenn graduate, is scheduled to join the Bobcats in September, while Clayton, a 2009 John Glenn alum, will have to wait until January unless a roster spot opens before the season begins."



Wonder why Luburgh is not on the roster?

He'll probably be on the D side....was a RB/DB and track star at 6'2"-190.


105 players are allowed in preseason camp. The roster then can expand to 125 once the first day of classes begins. Players that are to join in Sept. are likely not on the current roster unless they were with the program a year ago.
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Posted: 8/11/2010 10:01 AM
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Its about time the Z-ville TR finally wrote something about the school with a branch in thier town. More OSU jock sniffers in my hometown than anywhere I can recall. Too bad.
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Posted: 8/11/2010 9:06 PM
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TheRealMikeDrake wrote:expand_more
From the Zanesville Times Recorder:

"The latter is true for Clayton and Craig Luburgh after both earned preferred walk-on status for the Ohio University football team this coming season.

Craig, a 2010 John Glenn graduate, is scheduled to join the Bobcats in September, while Clayton, a 2009 John Glenn alum, will have to wait until January unless a roster spot opens before the season begins."



NEWSFLASH:  If the athlete joins the team in September they are NOT a preferred walk-on.  The preferred walk-on part means the athlete is invited to camp with the 105, not September when the roster expands by 20-25. 

That being said we have had a few of these walk-ons earn playing time down the road, so best of luck to those two gentlemen.
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Posted: 8/13/2010 9:40 PM
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John C. Wanamaker wrote:expand_more
From the Zanesville Times Recorder:

"The latter is true for Clayton and Craig Luburgh after both earned preferred walk-on status for the Ohio University football team this coming season.

Craig, a 2010 John Glenn graduate, is scheduled to join the Bobcats in September, while Clayton, a 2009 John Glenn alum, will have to wait until January unless a roster spot opens before the season begins."



NEWSFLASH:  If the athlete joins the team in September they are NOT a preferred walk-on.  The preferred walk-on part means the athlete is invited to camp with the 105, not September when the roster expands by 20-25. 

That being said we have had a few of these walk-ons earn playing time down the road, so best of luck to those two gentlemen.


Dude NEWSFLASH: they both mean the same thing  A walk on is a walk on. The term preferred walk on was made to make the player (and family) feel better about not getting a full ride.
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Posted: 8/13/2010 11:55 PM
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Hello McFly!!!!  They are not the same thing!  a PREFERRED walk-on gets ONE very DISTINCT benefit, and you can look this up in the NCAA MANUAL, but a PREFERRED WALK-ON comes to practice at the very start, where's a walk-on enters the team at any point when school begins.  There are quite a few benefits #1, it is the only time a walk-on can take advantage of room and board!  AT NO TIME in the season can a WALK-ON receive LODGING and MEALS until post season play and fall break.  

I think you listened to Larry Blackstone just a little too much!
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Posted: 8/14/2010 1:08 PM
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From my totally ignorant prospective as an ex-professor and ex-administrator who has never worked in an athletic department, I think that JCW is correct here.  I've heard others, who know even more than JCW about the subject (hard to fathom but true), that what he says about preferred walkon status is, indeed, true.  
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Posted: 8/14/2010 2:21 PM
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In other news, authorities are looking for a new sun to put in the sky now that the old one has fallen because OCF and JCW agree on something.

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Posted: 8/14/2010 2:34 PM
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This is an blurb from the Detroit Free Press in their Football 101 section.  Little more detail involved but this is the gist of the terms.


WALK-ON
A football player who joins a college team once classes have started in the fall, and hopes to demonstrate he should be given a roster spot. He is not on scholarship.

PREFERRED WALK-ON
A player who is promised a roster spot, and reports with the scholarship players for fall camp a few weeks before classes start. He is not on scholarship, but can earn scholarships as they become available.

GREYSHIRT
Another name for early enrollees, and a scholarship recruit who is able to graduate from high school in January instead of June, enrolls in college and takes part in winter workout programs and spring football.
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