Post by DOOMS on Mar 25, 2016 10:49:49 GMT -5
www.dawgnation.com/football/recruiting/kirby-smarts-next-trick-beefing-ugas-walk-program
As it trying to recruit against schools on our level wasn't enough. Now they taking kids who clearly would've been headed our way and dangling fcoa money at them.
UGA has welcomed another preferred walk-on from Burke County to the program. Caleeb Roberson might have been good enough to earn a scholarship at the FCS level. Given the ability he flashed in high school, he could’ve been an impact player in Division I-AA football.
He will attend UGA as a preferred walk-on, but there’s more here than the program adding a dual-threat who ran and threw for more than 1,000 yards in multiple seasons. Roberson will add depth at running back when he hits the practice field. He stands about six feet tall and weighs 180 pounds so he’ll need to put on weight, too.
The wide angle at work is an example of how Kirby Smart will explore every available resource to augment the talent on the team. He’s revamping things daily in recruiting scholarship players, but the staff will now squeeze all it can out of the walk-on program, too.
“Coach (Glenn) Schumann at Georgia called me up a few weeks ago,” Burke County coach Eric Parker said. “He introduced himself and told me what he did with the walk-on program at Alabama. They probably had one of the better walk-on programs in the country. When he came over from Alabama to coach inside linebackers, Kirby kind of told him oh by the way he wanted him to keep doing what he was doing at Alabama with the walk-ons at Georgia.”
Schumann knew the player folks in Waynesboro know as “Scoot” was still unsigned.
“He then kind of broke down their new walk-on philosophy,” Parker said. “I think you are going to see more stories like this coming out of Georgia because of the philosophy change there with walk-ons under Kirby. They are going to try real hard to get some of these I-AA kids or Division II kids and ask them instead of going somewhere else and paying out-of-pocket to play to instead look to walk-on at Georgia.”
Roberson earned repeat all-region quarterback honors this year. Parker said his lateral movement and short-space quickness “is as good as anybody. ” That’s the scouting stuff, but UGA’s pitch was more about finances.
“He said If you go I-AA or Division II out-of-state you won’t get to use your Hope (Scholarship) money,” Parker said. “That out-of-state school will package you up some academic money, but you’re going to get left paying more money than you would if you walked on at Georgia, used your Pell Grant and Hope Scholarship money. Apparently now in NCAA Division I they can pay for the walk-ons to eat. I think that’s all you can do, but he can eat. So financially it made sense and then obviously getting to go to a Power 5 school also made a lot of sense.”...
He will attend UGA as a preferred walk-on, but there’s more here than the program adding a dual-threat who ran and threw for more than 1,000 yards in multiple seasons. Roberson will add depth at running back when he hits the practice field. He stands about six feet tall and weighs 180 pounds so he’ll need to put on weight, too.
The wide angle at work is an example of how Kirby Smart will explore every available resource to augment the talent on the team. He’s revamping things daily in recruiting scholarship players, but the staff will now squeeze all it can out of the walk-on program, too.
“Coach (Glenn) Schumann at Georgia called me up a few weeks ago,” Burke County coach Eric Parker said. “He introduced himself and told me what he did with the walk-on program at Alabama. They probably had one of the better walk-on programs in the country. When he came over from Alabama to coach inside linebackers, Kirby kind of told him oh by the way he wanted him to keep doing what he was doing at Alabama with the walk-ons at Georgia.”
Schumann knew the player folks in Waynesboro know as “Scoot” was still unsigned.
“He then kind of broke down their new walk-on philosophy,” Parker said. “I think you are going to see more stories like this coming out of Georgia because of the philosophy change there with walk-ons under Kirby. They are going to try real hard to get some of these I-AA kids or Division II kids and ask them instead of going somewhere else and paying out-of-pocket to play to instead look to walk-on at Georgia.”
Roberson earned repeat all-region quarterback honors this year. Parker said his lateral movement and short-space quickness “is as good as anybody. ” That’s the scouting stuff, but UGA’s pitch was more about finances.
“He said If you go I-AA or Division II out-of-state you won’t get to use your Hope (Scholarship) money,” Parker said. “That out-of-state school will package you up some academic money, but you’re going to get left paying more money than you would if you walked on at Georgia, used your Pell Grant and Hope Scholarship money. Apparently now in NCAA Division I they can pay for the walk-ons to eat. I think that’s all you can do, but he can eat. So financially it made sense and then obviously getting to go to a Power 5 school also made a lot of sense.”...
As it trying to recruit against schools on our level wasn't enough. Now they taking kids who clearly would've been headed our way and dangling fcoa money at them.
You would have to find that out from SSU's AD 
