I find myself with a maybe usable walkon and am curious what the forums think about how that impacts recruiting strategy. I feel like I am basically guaranteed a backup backup option for free (don't even have to spend attention points to unlock scholly). Don't want to say my exact planned approach until after the recruiting session has finished but I would love to hear thoughts.

PS I anticipate someone, maybe cub, pointing out that the value of three more years of a bit player is less than the value of the recruiting resources which I get but I also prefer to take bit players over being under 10 + RS/INEL- in which case this is 3 year bit player value vs odds of not landing stud X 4 year back up player value. But I could be seeing that wrong.

All depends on your team and the situation. Scholarship resources, as we all know, often end up going toward lost battles. And valuable players can be found for few resources. But at high levels of D1, if you're typically fighting only for elite level players, it doesn't make a lot of sense to try to hold on to him. The typical walk-on you get at A-level D1 schools can play *a little* if you absolutely need them to, you can think of them like 1-year transfers, no need to give them a scholarship.

But if you're in a situation where you're looking at a bunch of pending EEs and you've already lost some recruiting battles, well it might make some sense. I probably wouldn't even think about it until the very end of the season though, only in the case of a disastrous 1st session of recruiting, sort of the same scenario where I redshirt a senior I left off the depth chart all season. Not a typical occurrence, but might pop up now and then.

Funny this gets mentioned now. I have played for years. And I just offered a ship to my first walk on ever. My UConn team in smith has turned the corner and should be good. But we have no PG options. I was given a good walk on last season and I’ll keep him at least one more (It’s John Hibbard for anyone curious). He should get about 15 mpg

only thing I was disappointed in, I was always told if you offered them a ship that sometimes their ratings would blow up. Did not happen for me. He gained 4 WE and that’s it