Reply to "Walk-on Tryout -- any recommendations?"

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CTbballDad posted:
That's what happens when you make people/organizations do stuff they have no desire/need to do. No idea why the NCAA mandates an open tryout, but all you get is disappointment and hopes needlessly dashed.

My "educated" guess is that the NCAA considers the participants of sports to be "student/athlete", saying they are student first and athlete secondary (by choice). There has been much discussion on this previously so I will leave it untouched. If athletics are an optional activity by choice, to avoid legal problems with discrimination it must be available to any student who is enrolled at that school, thus open tryouts. The NCAA pretty much have all the bases covered (figuratively speaking), to keep their "nonprofit" status....

9/17/1811:21 AM

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