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    Why does La Tech always lose key players towards the end of the season? Opting out is the buzz word this year, but it’s not something new at La Tech. We have lost key players at the end of the season several times under Dykes and Holtz.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawgpix View Post
    NCAA says once you "recruit" someone with official visits, etc., the athlete CANNOT walk-on at that school. You're either a recruit or a walk-on.

    Walk-ons can visit the school on their own, meet with university personnel on their own appointment, go to their camps and visit with the coaches. If you're strong academically and not identified as a recruit, you will be (discreetly) encouraged to go the walk-on route during these unofficial visits. This is especially true when you're identified as a certain position player and the coach is only allocating a certain number of scholarship(s) to that position.

    Unless you're officially designated as a recruit by a program you're NOT going to get offered out of high school by that program.

    Wow, you just explained most of our problems at La Tech.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eagle2180 View Post
    Why does La Tech always lose key players towards the end of the season? Opting out is the buzz word this year, but it’s not something new at La Tech. We have lost key players at the end of the season several times under Dykes and Holtz.
    Can you say academic falloff?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawgpix View Post
    NCAA says once you "recruit" someone with official visits, etc., the athlete CANNOT walk-on at that school. You're either a recruit or a walk-on.

    Walk-ons can visit the school on their own, meet with university personnel on their own appointment, go to their camps and visit with the coaches. If you're strong academically and not identified as a recruit, you will be (discreetly) encouraged to go the walk-on route during these unofficial visits. This is especially true when you're identified as a certain position player and the coach is only allocating a certain number of scholarship(s) to that position.

    Unless you're officially designated as a recruit by a program you're NOT going to get offered out of high school by that program.
    Would also explain why current coaches don’t respond to emails from players that are academic qualifiers(valedictorian/salutatorian) and exceptional athletes. I personally know a kid that has reached out to Tech and will likely play for a state championship at the 5-6 a level in Texas this year.He is the Qb and has lost 2 games in two years. One of the losses in OT to the team that won state.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eagle2180 View Post
    Why does La Tech always lose key players towards the end of the season? Opting out is the buzz word this year, but it’s not something new at La Tech. We have lost key players at the end of the season several times under Dykes and Holtz.
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    Quote Originally Posted by eagle2180 View Post
    Wow, you just explained most of our problems at La Tech.
    All these preferred walk-on high school kids want is for their education to be paid for and play football. End of quarter academic casualties just burn my butt.

    The difference now in the 2020s is the scholarship players get that Cost of Participation monthly spending money check in addition to all their athletic scholarship benefits. At some P5s that check is equivalent to a 40 hrs/week for 52 weeks minimum wage earner. ($18,000 for 9 months). And at many P5s it's much more.

    Tech pays some C of P, and ULM has none for their athletes. ULL pays more.

    Does anybody know how much all the Louisiana schools pay?
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    Do we lose players at a higher clip than our peers or does the quarter system just insure that our casualties are felt before season end?

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    Quarter system casualties occur before the last games of season.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dawgpix View Post
    All these preferred walk-on high school kids want is for their education to be paid for and play football. End of quarter academic casualties just burn my butt.

    The difference now in the 2020s is the scholarship players get that Cost of Participation monthly spending money check in addition to all their athletic scholarship benefits. At some P5s that check is equivalent to a 40 hrs/week for 52 weeks minimum wage earner. ($18,000 for 9 months). And at many P5s it's much more.

    Tech pays some C of P, and ULM has none for their athletes. ULL pays more.

    Does anybody know how much all the Louisiana schools pay?
    So, the preferred walk-ons are student athletes. The rest are just NFL hopefuls?

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    Well, why doesn’t Tech offer scholarships to academically successful kids that are also exceptional athletes?

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    Not all kids that excel academically and athletically can afford tuition. I guess Tech prefers to offer the kids that are more athletic.

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    I guess with all the cancellations, Joe Sloan is too busy to respond to an email.

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    Quote Originally Posted by eagle2180 View Post
    I guess with all the cancellations, Joe Sloan is too busy to respond to an email.
    of course he is. He is also fending off job offers

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    Quote Originally Posted by PawDawg View Post
    of course he is. He is also fending off job offers
    Good luck with anyone that hires him other than Skip.

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    The really sad part, Wayne Smith, Leo Sanford, ... and many other Tech alumni can vouch for the kids lineage and he still can’t get a response from the current staff.

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