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Coach Will Muschamp will be in Bristol, CT on Thursday making a variety of apperances on ESPN networks.
His schedule is as follows:
10:20 a.m SportsCenter (LIVE, ESPN)
11:05 a.m. First Take (LIVE, ESPN2)
11:45 a.m. The Herd (LIVE, ESPN Radio)
1:00 p.m. ESPN U College Football podcast with Ivan Maisel
3:30 p.m. College Football Live - ESPN 2 (tape at 2 p.m.)
4:00 p.m. SportsNation (ESPN 2) (taped)
4:10 p.m. SportsCenter (LIVE)
Will air between 1-4 p.m. Scott Van Pet Radio Show (taped)
It wlll be interesting to hear what the coach has to say on the national airwaves, where the standard, "such and such player had a good spring, they worked hard, etc" won't be relevant as much to a national audience...
Wednesday the SEC held its annual Spring Coaches Teleconference.
Coach Muschamp didn't say anything we haven't heard thus far, other than his opinion on the controversial practice of "grayshirting" student-athletes-something that happens in the SEC regularly.
"I think there is some gray area involved with all of it," the coach said Wednesday.
"Now, you're able to sign players back (previous year) as long as you're under your 85 (scholarship) total. So does that count against the 28 you signed in February? Right now it doesn't."
"Again, at Florida, we don't grayshirt. That's not something that we do; it's not a policy of ours. We don't place students; that's not a policy of ours. That's not something that I'm going to cross that bridge on right now because it's not something that we do or is part of what we're going to do."
Gray-shirting refers to incoming athletes was have signed with the school who are then asked to enroll in classes part-time for the fall semester and are not on scholarship and therefore maintain their 4-season eligibility. Once they enroll in class full-time, their five-year, four-season, eligibility begins. They can then enroll in class full-time and begin their NCAA clock after the season has ended.
Meanwhile teams are sparred a roster spot and a scholarship for that season. It has less to do with maintaining a players eligibility and more to do with oversigning and scholarship limits.
In some cases grayshirting is used so that players can overcome injuries or hit the weight room.
The coaches can kick the tires on a recruit in a college environment and spring practice and then if they don't stack up against other recruits or fit current needs, then they can ask the kid to pay his way through school until a spot opens up. The player is not with the team in any capacity, no practice etc, he's a regular student.
Florida State for example signed more recruits in its 2012 class than there are scholarships available coach Jimbo Fisher said the school would try to avoid "greyshirting" players but that some would head to junior college.
Nick Saban has taken heavy criticism for over-signing, especially from the Wall Street Journal.
Les Miles has been known to force a greyshirt or two and one LSU recruit is the poster child for the ills of oversigning.
Now does Muschamp really want to grayshirt? Especially if every major Division-1 school within earshot is doing it anyhow? Who knows. But he is trumped by his President who is a vocal opponent to the practice.
UF President J. Bernard Machen penned a piece for Sports Illustrated back in February on the practice.
He wrote in part:"Imagine the feeling if the student finds out, literally a few months before enrolling, that the institution is backing out of the contract. It is too late in the summer to go back to one's second choice. The student is told he will have to wait until next year. Sorry, but no acceptance, no scholarship. That's it."
"In Division-I college football this practice is known as "grayshirting" and, unfortunately, there are universities that sanction this activity."
"No university would allow this for the general student body. Imagine the uproar it would cause! What needs to happen in intercollegiate athletics is that universities must accept the moral responsibility to stop and prevent "grayshirting" and its associated actions. The football programs must be accountable and should honor institutional commitments to students. It is, after all, a moral contract."
-Muschamp spoke in Lakeland, FL Wednesday night to a group of boosters and he basically chalked up John Brantley's struggles to the O-line.
"I was standing behind him," he said according to the Lakeland Ledger.
"With that front, there wasn’t a whole lot of blocking going on. I called a couple of them look-out blocks. When that ball was snapped they turned around and say, ‘look out’ because it was coming quick. The quarterback position is kind of like the old head coach — you get way too much credit when things go right and way too much credit when things go wrong."
-Florida ranks No. 1 in the SEC terms of donations to the athletic department among all schools, according to the businessofcollegesports.com
Florida came in at $39.5 million in donations for the 2009-10 academic year, which made up 34-percent of the athletic department revenue. Second was LSU, which had $38 million in donations, which was also 34-percent of the school's athletic revenue. Alabama was third with $33 million in donations.
His schedule is as follows:
10:20 a.m SportsCenter (LIVE, ESPN)
11:05 a.m. First Take (LIVE, ESPN2)
11:45 a.m. The Herd (LIVE, ESPN Radio)
1:00 p.m. ESPN U College Football podcast with Ivan Maisel
3:30 p.m. College Football Live - ESPN 2 (tape at 2 p.m.)
4:00 p.m. SportsNation (ESPN 2) (taped)
4:10 p.m. SportsCenter (LIVE)
Will air between 1-4 p.m. Scott Van Pet Radio Show (taped)
It wlll be interesting to hear what the coach has to say on the national airwaves, where the standard, "such and such player had a good spring, they worked hard, etc" won't be relevant as much to a national audience...
Wednesday the SEC held its annual Spring Coaches Teleconference.
Coach Muschamp didn't say anything we haven't heard thus far, other than his opinion on the controversial practice of "grayshirting" student-athletes-something that happens in the SEC regularly.
"I think there is some gray area involved with all of it," the coach said Wednesday.
"Now, you're able to sign players back (previous year) as long as you're under your 85 (scholarship) total. So does that count against the 28 you signed in February? Right now it doesn't."
"Again, at Florida, we don't grayshirt. That's not something that we do; it's not a policy of ours. We don't place students; that's not a policy of ours. That's not something that I'm going to cross that bridge on right now because it's not something that we do or is part of what we're going to do."
Gray-shirting refers to incoming athletes was have signed with the school who are then asked to enroll in classes part-time for the fall semester and are not on scholarship and therefore maintain their 4-season eligibility. Once they enroll in class full-time, their five-year, four-season, eligibility begins. They can then enroll in class full-time and begin their NCAA clock after the season has ended.
Meanwhile teams are sparred a roster spot and a scholarship for that season. It has less to do with maintaining a players eligibility and more to do with oversigning and scholarship limits.
In some cases grayshirting is used so that players can overcome injuries or hit the weight room.
The coaches can kick the tires on a recruit in a college environment and spring practice and then if they don't stack up against other recruits or fit current needs, then they can ask the kid to pay his way through school until a spot opens up. The player is not with the team in any capacity, no practice etc, he's a regular student.
Florida State for example signed more recruits in its 2012 class than there are scholarships available coach Jimbo Fisher said the school would try to avoid "greyshirting" players but that some would head to junior college.
Nick Saban has taken heavy criticism for over-signing, especially from the Wall Street Journal.
Les Miles has been known to force a greyshirt or two and one LSU recruit is the poster child for the ills of oversigning.
Now does Muschamp really want to grayshirt? Especially if every major Division-1 school within earshot is doing it anyhow? Who knows. But he is trumped by his President who is a vocal opponent to the practice.
UF President J. Bernard Machen penned a piece for Sports Illustrated back in February on the practice.
He wrote in part:"Imagine the feeling if the student finds out, literally a few months before enrolling, that the institution is backing out of the contract. It is too late in the summer to go back to one's second choice. The student is told he will have to wait until next year. Sorry, but no acceptance, no scholarship. That's it."
"In Division-I college football this practice is known as "grayshirting" and, unfortunately, there are universities that sanction this activity."
"No university would allow this for the general student body. Imagine the uproar it would cause! What needs to happen in intercollegiate athletics is that universities must accept the moral responsibility to stop and prevent "grayshirting" and its associated actions. The football programs must be accountable and should honor institutional commitments to students. It is, after all, a moral contract."
-Muschamp spoke in Lakeland, FL Wednesday night to a group of boosters and he basically chalked up John Brantley's struggles to the O-line.
"I was standing behind him," he said according to the Lakeland Ledger.
"With that front, there wasn’t a whole lot of blocking going on. I called a couple of them look-out blocks. When that ball was snapped they turned around and say, ‘look out’ because it was coming quick. The quarterback position is kind of like the old head coach — you get way too much credit when things go right and way too much credit when things go wrong."
-Florida ranks No. 1 in the SEC terms of donations to the athletic department among all schools, according to the businessofcollegesports.com
Florida came in at $39.5 million in donations for the 2009-10 academic year, which made up 34-percent of the athletic department revenue. Second was LSU, which had $38 million in donations, which was also 34-percent of the school's athletic revenue. Alabama was third with $33 million in donations.
