Walk-ons

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I think Walk-ons do a couple of things.
One, it gives that small-town high school or 2nd tier player HOPE. It tells them they have a chance to play D1 football.
Also, you get players that want to play FOR Nebraska, rather than play AT Nebraska.
This in-turn helps with the overall attitude of the team and adds increased competition.

Specifically for Nebraska, it’s very important to have a strong walk-on program, considering Nebraska starts at a disadvantage vs. the Superpowers of college football – population to recruit from.

Walk ons…. well, I looked at this for the Sea of Red book, and I guess I felt like I covered it there, so I haven’t said much here.

I’ll say this about walk-ons. We tend to focus on the player who makes it, a Jared Tomich, or (this year) a Todd Peterson, but I think that takes away from the overall significance of the program.

What makes the walk-on program important is that it elevates the level of performance of the overall program, i.e, it makes real the threat that someone will take your job if you’re not making 100% effort all of the time.

Organizations, whether football teams or the company you work for, are ALWAYS looking for magic in that area – how to bring up performance of the bottom of the organizational hierarchy so that the overall performance increases.

You can’t measure that directly when it works, but you can certainly see it when it’s gone… as in last year.

As a recent Husker fan I’ve been informed of the “walk-on tradition” at NU, but never really knew the true extent of it. That link pretty much summed it up for me.