Do other schools have successful walkon programs like ND's?

by Rob (Rakes of Mallow), Chicago, Sunday, March 29, 2009, 20:18 (6267 days ago) @ Spesh

I realize that the walk-on program is designed to find about 20 moving tackling dummies, but it is always interesting to see how successful some of ND's walkons have been.

Some from the past and present:

Bobby Burger
Mike Anello
David Ruffer - not much of an impact, but he did get in for one kick
DJ Fitzpatrick - probably a preferred walkon, but oh well
Pat Dillingham - Poor guy
That FB Schmidt - played a lot

Probably more but I can't seem to recall that many more. There were a few OL (James Bent, Chrvanick) during Weis' first couple of seasons when the OL numbers were way down that were second teamers and got invited back for 5th years but they really never made an impact like the above. Bemenderfer originally (technically) was one, but that was another exception.

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Jay, Weis on some of the points... - PMan, 2009-03-29, 10:31
- thanks - Jay, 2009-03-29, 13:55
- Bobby Burger might be interesting, too - Spesh, 2009-03-29, 13:33
  - Do other schools have successful walkon programs like ND's? - Rob (Rakes of Mallow), 2009-03-29, 20:18
    - Lofa Tatupu and Clay Mathews Jr were walk ons. - FunkDoctorSpock, 2009-03-31, 11:39
    - great question - Jay, 2009-03-30, 11:31
      - Do you think full contact interhall plays a part? - ReginaldVelJohnson, 2009-03-30, 20:25
        
        good question - Jay, 2009-03-31, 10:36
        
        one of the long snappers - Pat, 2009-03-31, 12:46
      - I will take a look into it - Rob (Rakes of Mallow), 2009-03-30, 19:19
      - well...one way to have a successful walk-on program - Pat, 2009-03-30, 12:26
        
        Good point that. - scriptcomesfirst, 2009-03-30, 13:50
  - Both B. Smith and Filer whipped Ragone - BPH, 2009-03-29, 14:00
    - It was Fauria that Filer beat. - PaulM, 2009-03-29, 14:42

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Do other schools have successful walkon programs like ND's?