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Nebraska’s traditional success and fall from grace ...
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Nebraska’s traditional success and fall from grace ...


Sep 11, 2022, 2:20 PM

hinges largely on the following ... (excerpt from Wiki on Nebraska history)

Walk-on program

Nebraska has a long-standing walk-on program, designed to attract student-athletes who did not receive scholarship offers. NU accepted its first walk-on in the early 1960s, and Tom Osborne began an official program in 1973 after the NCAA reduced the number of scholarships schools could offer.[35] The size and stature of the program means that Nebraska's rosters are often unusually large; NU had 141 players on its 1996 Fiesta Bowl team, while opponent Florida had only ninety-four.[36] Osborne credited his walk-ons with providing flexibility to better scout future opponents.[37] Unlike some other schools, Nebraska's walk-ons have the same access to training facilities and academic counseling as those with scholarships. Six Nebraska walk-ons have become All-Americans and twenty-nine have played in the National Football League.[38]

NOTE: But, what this blurb fails to point out is that a large number of Nebraska “walk-ons” back in the day were beneficiaries of the full scholarships each county in the state funded and made available to deserving students from those counties ... many of whom just happened to turn out to be big, talented in-state football players whose walk-on status then meant they didn’t affect the normal football scholarship allotment and kept them from going elsewhere in order to have school paid for while they played.

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