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Txballa, The last staff under Dickey did enforce this rule and I was unable to tryout because of it. However, I was allowed to tryout in Spring 2007 under the new staff so I don't think that this rule is now enforced all that rigidly. I personally think that the rule is bs because there are zero other colleges at any level that I know of that enforce a regulation like this one. Don't the boys over at BYU leave school for 2 or 3 years at a time for religious missions and are still physically able to play. And the guy from South Carolina was 39 and walked on as a WR (although he was coming out of the military). I believe considering the way the tryouts are structured that if you explain your situation to the new staff that they should let you tryout. Although I can tell you that nothing about the rule was ever mentioned before, during, or after the tryout by any of the coaches. If you have any questions feel free to private message me.

I went to high school there. My brother is currently the QB at Boyd.

He is.

Why do you want a roster of Boyd if I may ask?

Wrong. Similar requirements as last 4 years, but there was not an open tryout for all interested full-time students. This new system includes a tryout. Also the old system required a student to be in good academic standing (2.0), this one requires a 2.25 GPA (a positive).

The tryouts were just introduced last week. Looks like we will have the walk-on program that we should with Dodge after all.

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Anyone know who the quarterback is that they keep talking about on the 5ATEXASFOOTBALL board that's going to transfer here? I assume they mean he will transfer in the fall since he would already have to be enrolled for the spring and someone would have heard something about it if that were the case.

The 19,552 is the amount of full-time undergraduate students at UH. The total amount including part-time and full-time is 26,959 undergraduate students and 8,385 graduate students.

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I was a walk-on quarterback at TCU in 2005 only during camp and then I decided to transfer back to North Texas before school started because of the high tuition costs there. This is a direct quote from the walk-on invitation letter that the assistant director of football operations sent to me and was mailed out to all invited walk-ons that year: "New NCAA legislation allows us to bring an unlimited number of walk-ons at the start of classes, but the roster must be trimmed to 120 (85 scholarship and 35 walk-ons) by the first game of the season. This gives you the opportunity to show the coaching staff that you will be able to help us be successful in 2005 - in whatever capacity that may be. If you are not one of the 120 players selected to remain on the team through the fall, you will get the opportunity to prove yourself once again in the spring of 2006." And since your obviously confused on this matter and only gave a partial statement in reference to bylaw 17.11.2.1.2, I will clear it up for you. 17.11.2.1.2 Limit on Number of Participants -- Division I-A. "In Division I-A football, there shall be a limit of 105 student-athletes who may engage in practice activities prior to the institution's first day of classes or the institution's first contest, whichever occurs earlier." (Adopted: 1/11/94) To put this in terms that you can understand, the bylaw states that prior to the institution's first day of classes there is a limit of 105 players. Which is referenced in the part of my statement where I said, "105 is the number that they can bring into fall camp." Link to Bylaw

105 is the number that they can bring to fall camp. The new rule that the NCAA established in 2005 was that a team could have an unlimited number of players in the time period between the first day of class and the first game, before the first game the roster must be cut down to 120 players (which is the upper boundary on the margin number that I was referring to). Spring roster limits are different however and I believe the number is unlimited.

I agree. A school like North Texas must be able to take advantage of every resource available to them. One major resource we have is a 30k+ student body and there has got to be some talent and desire somewhere in that number. I do think that Coach Dodge will implement a successful walk-on program, but I do not believe that the previous staff had done this as I have said before. This is evident from the margin of the number of players on the roster to the NCAA regulated roster limit (somewhere around 25 open spots not used).

Well put. I can't really comment about anything Dodge related because I really don't know much about him other than what I have read, so I really wasn't commenting on the new staff. I appreciate your insight however.

The old staff had some additional policies on their own in addition to NCAA regulations. You all are blowing my comments out of proportion. I meant for this thread to be supplemental to an earlier one that was presented on the matter. Just wanted to provide an example to the previous discussion.