grey shirt/ preferred walk-on????

[SHSBulldog00]

Is there a difference?

[Old Tiger]

grey shirt will receiver a scholarship the following year.


preferred walk on stays a walk on unless somehow by a slim chance they receive a scholarship.

[Rabid Cougar]

Gray shirt - the athlete signs a letter of intent but delays enrolling as a full time student. He counts against that years scholarship number but does not lose any eligibility. He cannot take more than 9 hours either at the offering school or at another school. His eligibility starts when he becomes a full time student,usually in the spring semester and still has 5 years to play 4 and retains his red-shirt.

It is most ofter used when the athlete is rehabing from an injury sustained senior year in high school.

Preferred/invited walk-ons - athlete pays their own way and is treated like a scholarship. Often somehow related to or friend of the coaching staff.

[Matthew328]

I do not believe a gray shirt counts against that year....he counts against the next year

[navscanmaster]

Originally posted by Matthew328
I do not believe a gray shirt counts against that year....he counts against the next year

Correct. There was a pretty good article about LSU gray shirting a crop of athletes, and some weren't too happy about it. It can be a good thing, and it can be a bad thing if the athlete is down the depth chart and not injured....

[Rabid Cougar]

My son gray-shirted due to injury. Just relaying as it was explained to me.

Lots of schools, like LSU, use the practice to stock pile talent.