Roster Management Questions

[nuwildcat]

Two questions for the experts:
1. Are upperclassmen less likely to happily accept a redshirt than freshmen? I am taking over a new team and have a glut of players at one position in the same class and want to know if I can redshirt a junior or senior to equal things out.

2. I know there is a penalty for cutting a scholarship player, does the same penalty apply for walkons?

[Wayne23]

1. You can only red shirt Frosh or Sophs. I've red shirted both.
2. Cutting walk ons does not result in a penalty. I do it all the time.

[nuwildcat]

Thanks for the quick response. That is exactly what I wanted to know.

[Billdozer]

I also cut walk-ons often. I will usually keep a walk-on if the have a good personality, are popular, and do not care about playing time. Otherwise, I cut them. I feel like if a walk-on is a good teammate they are useful but if they do not add to team harmony they just take playing time away from scholarship players. I have also seen high rated walk-ons vastly underperform their star ranking.

[Wildcat18]

I also cut walk-ons often. I will usually keep a walk-on if the have a good personality, are popular, and do not care about playing time. Otherwise, I cut them. I feel like if a walk-on is a good teammate they are useful but if they do not add to team harmony they just take playing time away from scholarship players. I have also seen high rated walk-ons vastly underperform their star ranking.

I’ve noticed walk-ons tend to have low scoring skill, at least in my experience, which lowers their playability unless they’re a top-passing PG.

[PointGuard]

I leave walkons on the roster..they're harmless and don't bite.

Usually I put them all the way down at the bottom of the depth chart...but I tend to use 200% injury level so that means at least a few more injuries and some are lengthy ones, so I figure it never hurts to have some depth that can be available if necessary.

I do agree that if the walk-on has a bad personality (this seems unusual for walkons, though), it might be worth cutting them.

[jlemmen43]

I leave walkons on the roster..they're harmless and don't bite.

Usually I put them all the way down at the bottom of the depth chart...but I tend to use 200% injury level so that means at least a few more injuries and some are lengthy ones, so I figure it never hurts to have some depth that can be available if necessary.

I do agree that if the walk-on has a bad personality (this seems unusual for walkons, though), it might be worth cutting them.

I like this strategy. Ya never know if you may need a fill in to bridge the gap for your regulars.