Wrestling/Football commit from PA. Unranked running back on 247 but I'd say athlete is also a proper designation.
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— Gaige Garcia (@gaigegarcia23) June 24, 2019
Preferred walk on?
https://247sports.com/player/gaige-garcia-46042243/
No, he can't play football on a wrestling scholarship.
Wrestling doesn't give full rides bud. It's like baseball. Mostly academic I'm guessing.
He can't play football using a partial or a full athletic scholarship in another sport. If he plays two sports, he has to walk on in both or use a football scholarship.
This is correct. When an athlete plays FB or Basketball (have to specify that "B" these days) and another sport, any scholarship is counted against the FB or BB limits. I'm not sure how it's calculated if the 2 sports are FB and BB.
It's FB 1st, BB is 2nd. There's a hierarchy going all the way down the line taking away the option for schools.
Theoretically, a basketball school like UConn could save a scholarship by having one of their players walk on for football. If that started happening the rule would probably change.
Yeah bud, he's explaining before everyone starts asking, that if he plays football he uses a football scholarship, UM can't stash him on a wrestling partial.
Can you elaborate? I've never looked into the rules of multi-sport athletes. Is that an NCAA rule? A wrestling rule? What about all of the guys who want to play football and basketball? Are they not allowed to be on scholarship and do that?
Multi-sport athletes on scholarship have their scholarship count towards the higher revenue sport.
Unless he qualifies academically for scholarship money, and considering his offers, he's probably a damn good student.
Good stuff.
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Read elsewhere that Brandon Brown explained that he's going to be on a wrestling scholarship and a PWO for football. If he enters a game his scholarship converts to a football scholarship.
That's weird, Then really, what's the point?
Wrestling gets a good wrestler and if he's good enough to play the FB gets a good player. If he's not good enough to play FB gets a practice guy out of it at least. Seems like a good idea to me.
Yeah, but if you know wrestling, that's a grueling ass sport, that takes up as much time as football in college. Congrats anyway, and Go Blue!
Wrestling is a year around sport at the elite ncaa level. I’m not saying it can’t be done but if you want to be your best in wresting I struggle to see how you could do both.
I think the point is to get a quality education .....O wait is that OT?
He can do that wrestling, without being a tackling dummy.
I think the point is to get a quality education .....O wait is that OT?
No, this is NOT the University of North Carolina board.
Soo I’m reading this as in he’ll never see the field. Correct?
Correct. Unless he turns out to be better than his fellow running backs, in which case he would be about the 7-billionth example of a walk-on succeeding in college football. So basically, he's in the same boat as everybody else who's ever been part of a football team.
More correctly, when he plays it'll because he's such a beast that can't Gaige him in :)
I know less than nothing about wrestling, but to the layperson it looks like he's pretty friggin' good.
http://www.pa-wrestling.com/hs/teams/scolumbia/athlete_stats.htm?id=128541
He is extremely good. Is ranked by Flo as the #22 prospect in the Nation. #4 in his weight class. He'd go 197 to start off with.
If he plays football, then I'd think he'd have to put on weight and move up to a light heavyweight.
Jesus fuck. #1 in Pa and 47-0 as junior is insane. Great pickup for the wrestling team even if he never plays a down of football.