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I just covered this on another thread:
Counting Football Scholarships Forward
When we just put all the walk-ons on scholarship, Did they eat into our ability to get somebody like the Houston OT? Or do they count against several years ago? Since the CIS geniuses have guaranteed us that we can take as many transfers as we want this fall (and count them against 2021...
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I've said this before.
Miami is a university that has a football team, it's not a football team that offers classes on the side.
It's very amusing how people spout "blueshirt" as if they even know how to accomplish it.
Nebraska has a DECADES-LONG tradition of getting walk-ons to play football at Nebraska, many of them very good walk-ons who eventually and legitimately earn a scholarship (and not just a "we're under 85 ships" pity scholarship/PR opportunity).
I realize I said it in a much more lengthy version on the other thread, and sometimes after I type it once, I figure out a way to say it shorter the second time around.
The issue is not just "as long as we don't recruit him". That's just the first step of multiple steps.
One thing that a lot of the "I didn't go to UM but I love the football Hurricanes" crowd doesn't understand is how UM works (and this applies to other higher-quality universities as well).
There are many universities that, if your "average" football or basketball player applied to, would never admit that applicant on the person's academic merits. To say it more politely, many people do NOT realize how much the Athletic Department, and a SIGNED LOI OR FAA, allows a football or basketball player to be fast-tracked through the Admissions process.
Not to mention what is happening in the Covid-19 world THIS YEAR.
So in a normal year, Taulia would be applying for "transfer" to UM, while Jarrid would be applying TO GRADUATE SCHOOL AT UM. And if you don't have a signed LOI/FAA, those two guys would have to be admitted on their own academic merits:
1. Both Taulia and Jarrid are WELL-PAST the normal application deadlines. Being a recruited athlete with a signed LOI/FAA allows that person to be fast-tracked through the process.
2. I do not have the specific GPA details, but many Division I-A athletes do not have outstanding HS or college GPAs at a level to compete for transfer to a university (most universities only take a small number of transfers per year) or for graduate school at a small and highly ranked school such as Miami. Again, being a recruited athlete with a signed LOI/FAA allows that person to be pushed through the process even if that person does not have an outstanding GPA/admission essay/letters of recommendation/resume.
3. Miami would have completed work on its transfer and grad admissions before the Covid-19 quarantine hit, and will largely be shut down for administrative purposes for the next several months. So a late transfer/graduate application, lacking outstanding credentials, and not having the "push" of a recruited athlete/LOI/FAA behind it...will likely be processed EVEN SLOWER during the quarantine, if at all.
There are very valid reasons why "blueshirting" is almost completely exclusive to situations involving state schools, without super-high admissions standards, and almost always for incoming freshmen.
And there are valid reasons why Miami has never pulled off a blueshirt, let alone a blueshirt for a transfer or a grad.
Maybe Taulia can get through this gauntlet. Please realize, if Tua just cuts a $75K check for Year 1, Miami could put Taulia on scholarship for Years 2 and 3 WITHOUT ANY IC IMPLICATIONS WHATSOEVER, so Taulia would never have to take an IC slot away from anyone.
And please note, I have never said that Taulia isn't getting into UM, I just said things would be MUCH MUCH EASIER if Tua pays for Year 1.
But Jarrid Williams is a near-impossibility. He would have no benefit of the Athletic Department being to push him through Admissions at this late date, and with everything shut down.
I find it highly unlikely that ANY football player good enough to be desired by Miami (notice I didn't say "recruited") would go through such an uncertain process when he has written offers from other schools.
I love my alma mater. But I would be willing to bet that if you asked the Moise family whether they should trust UM's word, they might not be so optimistic.
(PS, neither Walker nor Moise could ever blueshirt at Miami, as we have definitely recruited them in the past)
(PPS, this is why you have to "hand-pick" a blueshirt candidate well in advance, it has to be a Joaquin Gonzalez type)
(PPPS, Tua writing a check for Taulia could also have another impact, in that it would make Taulia a Preferred Walk-On, and he COULD get the Aunt Becky treatment, that is, a partial assist on Admissions, not because the AD says "take this kid, he has an LOI" but because Taulia would be participating in athletics as a student...it's worth a $75K gamble if he really wants to go to UM)
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