Devin Crawford-Tufts

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Naive Question.

Is there a chance that he could be offered a full ride scholarship by the track team opening up a scholarship for the football team? Does the track team offer ful scholarships?
 

EE_Gopher said:
Naive Question.

Is there a chance that he could be offered a full ride scholarship by the track team opening up a scholarship for the football team? Does the track team offer ful scholarships?
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Same kind of situation came up with Bryant Allen. By rule, he had to be on football scholarship and walk-on in basketball, even though he's probably equally talented at both.

The rule is that you can't have your "lesser" (non-revenue) sports take up schollies for your revenue sports. He could be a scholarship athlete in football, and run track as a walk-on, but not vice-versa.
 

EE_Gopher said:
Naive Question.

Is there a chance that he could be offered a full ride scholarship by the track team opening up a scholarship for the football team? Does the track team offer ful scholarships?
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Give yourself some credit. That's a good question.
 

KoolAid said:
Give yourself some credit. That's a good question.
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Unfortunately there are rules to prevent this sort of thing from happening. There is a hierarchy of sport likely to abuse such a thing and the scholarship gets counted toward the one highest on that food chain. Football is at the top followed by basketball. So a trackstar with a full ride playing football always counts against the schollie totals in football.

thus you're unlikely to see track stars with full rides giving football a go.
 

EE_Gopher said:
Naive Question.

Is there a chance that he could be offered a full ride scholarship by the track team opening up a scholarship for the football team? Does the track team offer ful scholarships?
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Even if this were possible with the hierarchy of scholarships, the track team only has 12.6 scholarships for the entire track and cross country teams. That's for 60+ guys. Only a few of guys on the track team are on full scholarships, and the rest are split up amongst many guys on the team. A talent like Crawford-Tufts probably would have been offered close to a full scholarship if not a full. It is usually based off of what type of contribution they could make at the Big 10 championships immediately. If they can score solid points right away, they get offered more money.
 


I was told by one of the track coaches only 40 point kids get schollies. the rest partials if any.

fyi, four events, 10 pts per win = 40pts

Of course most teams can't find that many kids of that talent level and so there are more ops than that, but that is the general idea.
 


Schnoodler said:
I was told by one of the track coaches only 40 point kids get schollies. the rest partials if any.

fyi, four events, 10 pts per win = 40pts

Of course most teams can't find that many kids of that talent level and so there are more ops than that, but that is the general idea.
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There aren't many "40 point kids" in any state at any level. And even if they do win 4 events that doesn't mean that they are Big 10 ready. I think it's more based off of where their performances would put them in the Big 10. A kid could potentially win state championships in the 100, 200, 4 x 100 and the Long Jump, but the times and distances wouldn't warrant a full scholarship or maybe even a partial, especially in Minnesota.

The majority of guys on the team come in on little to no scholarship, and then earn more as they produce throughout the years. A guy on our team was very close to the all-time Minnesota 400m record when he was in HS, and I think he might have come in at 60%, and earned his way up towards a full.
 

RunGopherRun said:
There aren't many "40 point kids" in any state at any level. And even if they do win 4 events that doesn't mean that they are Big 10 ready. I think it's more based off of where their performances would put them in the Big 10. A kid could potentially win state championships in the 100, 200, 4 x 100 and the Long Jump, but the times and distances wouldn't warrant a full scholarship or maybe even a partial, especially in Minnesota.

The majority of guys on the team come in on little to no scholarship, and then earn more as they produce throughout the years. A guy on our team was very close to the all-time Minnesota 400m record when he was in HS, and I think he might have come in at 60%, and earned his way up towards a full.
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I was talking projected at the next level, not HS. But I think we're saying the same thing. Schollies in track are tougher to get than in football and it takes an amazing athlete for a track program to commit that much of their resources to one kid.
 



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