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Walk-on tryouts are today

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Rjones61

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Pretty excited about this year's walk-ons. I am a community advisor in one of the residence halls, and I have six freshman on my floor trying out for the team. Three of them particularly stand out. For sake of privacy, I will use only use first names. I've seen all of their films.

Ryley: 6'3 to 6'4 About 260-270 pounds of pure muscle. Came from a very small school, so he fell under the radar. He's trying out for an offensive guard position. Has some serious strength and a great work ethic (You should see him tear it up in the gym, insane!). However, watching his film, foot speed could be an issue. It all depends on how he worked on his speed leading up to this tryout.

Marcos: 6'1 - 6'2 About 200-215 pounds. This kid reeks of athleticism. Was originally recruited to WSU, but when the new coaching staff came in, they bumped him late. He is currently a preferred walk on. Has been working insanely hard and has put on 20-25 pounds of muscle since the school year started. Looking for RB or LB.

Eli: 6'2 to 6'3 about 195-210 pounds, and trying out for Wide Receiver. Fast, powerful, with a good set of hands. This is the kind of kid that if you give him some good short routes, he will put the ball further down field. I didn't see Eli's vertical ability, but from what I hear, he is an excellent basketball player.

Has anyone else heard of some stand out walk-ons?
 
Rjones61 said:
Pretty excited about this year's walk-ons. I am a community advisor in one of the residence halls, and I have four freshman on my floor trying out for the team. Three of them particularly stand out. For sake of privacy, I will use only use first names. I've seen all of their films.

Ryley: 6'3 to 6'4 About 260-270 pounds of pure muscle. Came from a very small school, so he fell under the radar. He's trying out for an offensive guard position. Has some serious strength and a great work ethic (You should see him tear it up in the gym, insane!). However, watching his film, foot speed could be an issue. It all depends on how he worked on his speed leading up to this tryout.

Marcos: 6'1 - 6'2 About 200-215 pounds. This kid reeks of athleticism. Was originally recruited to WSU, but when the new coaching staff came in, they bumped him late. He is currently a preferred walk on. Has been working insanely hard and has put on 20-25 pounds of muscle since the school year started. Looking for RB or LB.

Eli: 6'2 to 6'3 about 195-210 pounds, and trying out for Wide Receiver. Fast, powerful, with a good set of hands. This is the kind of kid that if you give him some good short routes, he will put the ball further down field. I didn't see Eli's vertical ability, but from what I hear, he is an excellent basketball player.

Has anyone else heard of some stand out walk-ons?
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Seems like Vic said it was at 3:00 pm today. Is that correct? Is it open to the public to watch?
Is Marco a preferred walk on at WSU or Eastern?
 
My older son is trying out, hoping to make it with younger brother. He has been playing college baseball the past two years, transferred to EWU and still has the love for the gridiron. He is 6'4", 230, good hands, quick feet, and a 4.6. Hoping he can show the coaches what they want to see. Also deep snaps. Saying a prayer at 3pm.

loloman
 
clawman said:
Seems like Vic said it was at 3:00 pm today. Is that correct? Is it open to the public to watch?
Is Marco a preferred walk on at WSU or Eastern?
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Marcos is a preferred walk on at Eastern. From what he told me, he was originally recruited by WSU. But after they gave him the boot, Eastern was the only school giving him a window. Great kid, I am very confident he will make the team. I have no idea whether the tryouts are public.
 
Rjones61, loloman, and All,
Walkons came out about 3:30pm, they started, in the weight room. All 37 Athletes were there. Clawman was there along with our Players watching from the walkway to Upper Lot 12. We left a little, the (HAWK) cold, was a little bit to much for myself, Clawman, and daughter to handle. Riley I remembered seeing him run the Steps in Reese Court, him and Eric found me today, and I wished them both the best of luck, as the other Athletes. I Don't know who did what, we left early.
Glad we did go out, Brandon Kaufman was there doing some sprints, stopped by and spoke for a while, also met his future wife, beautiful lady. ;) Sorry I didn't have more information to share from todays walkons.
Vic Wallace
 
Good to see you Vic and so many guys that want to be an Eagle. The campus cops were glad to see my white truck as well. It gave them a chance to meet their quota of parking tickets? Argh, 20 bucks!
It is good to see so many brothers playing together, and brothers of former players trying out. Indication of a healthy program.
How many players can the team have in total?
 
clawman said:
Good to see you Vic and so many guys that want to be an Eagle. The campus cops were glad to see my white truck as well. It gave them a chance to meet their quota of parking tickets? Argh, 20 bucks!
It is good to see so many brothers playing together, and brothers of former players trying out. Indication of a healthy program.
How many players can the team have in total?
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The campus police don't write the parking tickets, parking services does. ;) It's basically their entire job.
 
I talked to a couple of coaches at the Sat. BB game.

This is not your Father's EWU football team. There is lots of talent at every position, and most are ready to play now, not two years from now.

I am not sure of the numbers but that number is not very big as far as how many walk-ons got invites to practice this spring.

Coaches were saying that when the 17 signees get here in the fall there will very little room or none for walk-ons, because of the player limit, which I think is 95. I think there are several props as well. Although all the signees have to go through NCAA clearing?

The biggest news I got was that these athletes are faster and stronger, at all positions which makes being a walk-on so much harder than all those many years in the past.

There is hope maybe some of them can play Basketball. :cry:
 
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Rontheoldwiseeagle said:
I talked to a couple of coaches at the Sat. BB game.

This is not your Father's EWU football team. There is lots of talent at every position, and most are ready to play now, not two years from now.

I am not sure of the numbers but that number is not very big as far as how many walk-ons got invites to practice this spring.

Coaches were saying that when the 17 signees get here in the fall there will very little room or none for walk-ons, because of the player limit, which I think is 95. I think there are several props as well. Although all the signees have to go through NCAA clearing?

The biggest news I got was that these athletes are faster and stronger, at all positions which makes being a walk-on so much harder than all those many years in the past.

There is hope maybe some of them can play Basketball. :cry:
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Ron, please support the football team without making fun of the basketball team. We have a great basketball coach and team!

Thank you.
 
From what I heard, there were 37 that tried out, and 6 of them were invited to continue working out with the team for the remainder of the winter workouts.
 
loloman said:
From what I heard, there were 37 that tried out, and 6 of them were invited to continue working out with the team for the remainder of the winter workouts.
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Then when Fall quarter starts is there another tryout for walk-on or is it only those that the coaching staff has invited? Anyone, Anyone, Anyone
 
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