Kickers...bah! My bad.

McGloin and Farrell are candidates to be non-scholarship players. There may be a couple others that we don't know about.

It's depressing to go down that list and see how many of those kids would not have even been offered had we not swung and missed or plain messed up recruiting our top targets.

I don't mind that as much because strategy is actually involved.

Fera is the only K/P on schollie. We would be the only program on earth to devote 4 schollies to K/P's. That eliminates 3, which brings you to the proper number of 70. We're currently at 85 w the 15 verbally committed recruits. IMO, it looks like the staff is willing to take 17 in this class. The final 2 spots could come from a number of places. Robinson has been mentioned as a greyshirt. One of the walk-ons may not have his schollie removed. There may still be 1-2 transfers or kids who decide to give up football. All in all, 1-2 spots is a miniscule number compared to SEC teams needing to drop 10 current schollie kids or putting 4-6 commits in prep school.

I don't believe that Farrell was a walk on so I don't see why he would lose his scholarship especially since he appears to be above most of our other OTs on the depth chart.

Going 1 or 2 over isn't that problematic because often there is some attritution naturally over the spring and summer.

And technically this would not be oversigning...that refers to signing more LOIs than the alloted 25 scholarships per class. Not so in this case. Although we would be above the 85 scholarship roster limit, that would not take effect until late summer when they have to comply with the 85 limit for the 2011 Fall Semester.

I have heard otherwise...

Radakovich probably was a walkon that year, but from what was reported Farrell was offered and did sign an LOI. Since I don't have inside connections in the Lasch building, I'm going to assuming that he was offered from the beginning.

However, even if he was not, I do not believe that it has been PSU's practice to remove walk-ons scholarships after they have earned them. What I mean by earning them is by reaching #3 or greater on the depth chart and having PSU extend a scholarship. This is what walk-ons often state that PSU has told them regarding earning a scholarship. Occasionally a scholarship may open up for part of a year if a player with a scholarship leaves. In this case, PSU usually can't bring a recruit in to fill this position, so rather than waste it for that year, they will give it to a walk-on simply to ease the financial burden. In this case, the walk-on is aware that the scholarship goes away at the end of the year. I believe the year that Chris Baker, Chris Bell, and Phillip Taylor left in August that this was the scenario. Their departure left 3 scholarships vacated for that fall in which PSU couldn't bring any new recruits in. If a player earns a scholarship by getting playing time, a starting position, or even on the depth chart, I don't believe that PSU will take that offer away. While I'm sure that it has happened, I think the preference is to keep those guys on scholarship at all costs.

Furthermore, this time frame is what allows the "try-out" system used by schools who oversign. It allows the staff time to evaluate incoming frosh vs. existing personnel in drills thru May-Jun. It also allows them to get a final list on what kids will not qualify. Then, come July, based on the evals and qualifying results of the signed recruiting class, they make the decisions on which upperclassmen will not be offered schollie renewal. Some kids who sense the inevitable transfer beforehand, but many others are left w a rude awakening come July. Its an awful system for the kids, but its how those programs maintain the best 85 players on scholarship every year with minimal dead weight.

Some douche keeps down voting my posts and anyone who agrees with them. I think it's Pat Devlin.

LOL thanks for the backup

I too noticed the Terry omission. Did he leave or just an oversight?