recruiting strategy of coach Walters at Wake

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Originally posted by freddy77:
Guys, how do Walter's statements compare and contrast to the typical D1 scholarship strategy?---

Walter hopes to obtain this success by a new recruiting strategy.

“The one philosophy of recruiting we have is bigger scholarships to fewer players,” said Walter.

“In general we want to sign 8 pitchers to decent money, we want to sign 8 hitters to decent money, and then we want to have 4 guys that can play both ways. I think those 20 guys will eat up 90% of our at bats and 90% of our innings pitched” Walter said.

According to Walter the other 10 guys on the roster will be walk-ons that may develop into scholarship players or walk-ons that serve a specific role on the team, such as a defensive replacement.

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Originally posted by RJM:
I don't believe his strategy will meet NCAA baseball scholarship requirements of 25% minimum for twenty-seven players. Outside the rules, from a strategy standpoint I agree with him.

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Thanks. I was under the impression the first twenty-seven had to get money.

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Originally posted by CPLZ:

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Originally posted by RJM:
I don't believe his strategy will meet NCAA baseball scholarship requirements of 25% minimum for twenty-seven players. Outside the rules, from a strategy standpoint I agree with him.

There is no minimum to the number of players on scholarship, only a max of 27. There are schools that only give 3 or 4 scholarships, with a 25% minimum, they'd be maxed at 16 players receiving scholarship money.

His strategy is not really that uncommon. Augie Garrido at Texas spends his money on arms. Bradley University is known as a pitchers school, where pitchers eat up the majority of scholarship money. There are plenty of others also.