I just took over a team that will have 9 open scholarships at DI.  I have been puzzling over whether to give a walk-on a scholarship: Sterling Wilson.  His ATH, SPD & STAM are all average, his PER & BH are still blue (high), def & passing are low.  

If I give him a schollie, then his WE will jump, right?   So, he would end up about like this:

ATH     60
SPD     70
DEF     45
PER     75
BH        80
Pass    61
Stam    87

I know that isn't great, but would he be worth keeping as a bench player or should I just let him go?

Interesting. That's really not bad for a walk-on. 

Nevertheless, I think you could still find better players for that scholarship. I'd recommend letting him go...

You're probably right pep.  Here's a related question:  When I had 9 open schollies in D3, the AD wouldn't let me rescind another (to bring it to 10 open).  I'm in the same position now, but could I give this walk-on a schollie (bringing it down to 8), then rescind the returning junior PF?  

The FAQ talks about too many non-scholarship players on the roster, but that's different.  All the forum threads that I could stand to read about rescinding were on $ and little else.  Any help would be appreciated.

Actually both of your walk ons can play.  Does the C have any potential?  You could give schollies to em bothe and get rid of mayfeld and giobel.  But you should prolly just not offer eitther, sucks to get caught with a horrible player for 4 years.  Anyways why did you pick such a horrible team?

I like a challenge and it's my hometown now.  I'm confident that I can have this team competing for a NT berth in my third year, but it will be grim this year.  

Francis is still high on DE and avg in REB & SB, but low ATH & LP.  He'd be very good at D3 and a good backup at D2, but I can't imagine he'd be that helpful at this level.  On the other hand, he may actually be better than Mayfield (whom I'm trying to make sure I could rescind).  I just have a feeling that Wilson might have that big-time potential at PER; he went up 14 last season playing a total of 38 minutes.  If, instead of running to the 70-75 range, his PER has the potential to clear 80, then he could give me really useful minutes off the bench.   

how in the WORLD did you get such good walk-ons?

Well, they were there when I showed up.  I checked a little -- it looks like the whole Colonial conference was assigned decent walk-ons.  I'm going to guess that, when SIM AI does the recruiting at DI, some of the final recruits taken get assigned as walk-ons, but were in the generated recruit pool.  Maybe not, but that would explain it.  Back to the original question, let me put it in multiple choice form and see how that goes. 

The team will have 9 open schollies once the job application period ends.  It will return 2 seniors and 1 junior.  However, the 2 walk-ons are just as talented as the few returning scholarship players.  Given that the answer to Article #297 is this "Your athletic director will not allow you to rescind a scholarship if you already have multiple non-scholarship players on your team. He wants you to sign some players before he's going to approve you opening another scholarship."  Which of the following is true about rescinding the junior's scholarship?

1. Letting both walk-ons leave, the AD will allow the rescission (leaving only 2 scholarship players).
2. Letting both walk-ons leave, the AD will not allow the rescission (forcing 3 to be kept).
3. Giving one walk-on a scholarship, the AD will allow the rescission (allowing only 3 to remain).
4. Giving one walk-on a scholarship, the AD will not allow the rescission (forcing 4 to be kept).
5. Giving both walk-ons a schollie, the AD will allow the rescission (allowing 4 to remain).
6. Nothing can be done to permit the rescission.

I got a response from Customer Support which was timely and very helpful.    So I cannot say thanks enough for that on a Saturday afternoon.  

However, I couldn't do what I wanted anyway.  Although the button was there, it only produced an error message.  Scholarships cannot be offered during the job change period.   I may be the first incoming coach that saw walk-ons that were good AND, due to the color coded potential on the practice page, knew there was enough potential to warrant offering a scholarship before they left.  I wish the rule had an exception to allow the incoming coach to make the offer, but it is appropriate to prevent outgoing coaches from changing status. 

If anyone were curious about the question above, both #2 & #3 are true (I should have framed those choices a bit better).  The response from customer support was that "if you have 9 openings then the AD will prevent rescinding any further players. If you offered a walk-on a scholarship first (to get to 8 openings), then you would be able to do it."  Which doesn't change the fact that a newly hired coach cannot extend that offer to last season's walk-on.