[lynchburgwildcats]

Jarrod "Bieber" Polson on the team he probably grew up dreaming to play on, and he won the national championship. Only way it gets better is if he was one of the guys getting playing time.

[Purple Haize]

I dont give him any credit for the national championship.

Let me be the next to pile on your ignorance

[FlamesFan7]

I am a former walk-on at Liberty and to say that these players have no impact on the team is absolutely absurd. I'm not saying this to boost my own ego about playing on a college team, but it needs to be said. It shows ones lack of knowledge regarding college athletics. Walk-on's go through every drill, every workout, every sprint, every practice--all for the love of the game. They receive no money and generally get no reward. Alot of times the walk-ons go off in practice and drive the head coach crazy at how bad the starters are playing. You don't think that matters? You don't think having a scout team full of walk-ons to simulate VMI's uptempo offense matters?

You obviously didn't watch the post-game show where it showed Calipari talking to his team in the locker room after the game. He looked at Jarrod and the walk-on sitting beside him and said something to effect of "If you two guys don't come together and compete everyday, we don't win this." I'm glad to see that most of this board feels the same way.

[JK37]

Walk-on's go through every drill, every workout, every sprint, every practice--all for the love of the game.

^^^This isn't necessarily true. I agree with the overwhelming majority here regarding walk-on's. But such a blanket statement simply isn't true. I've witnessed the inner-workings of a number of men's and women's basketball programs from various levels. In my first-hand experience, just as many programs' walk-ons sit for gross amounts of practice and off-court workouts as ones who are as equally involved as scholarship S-A's.

Can anyone here say for CERTAIN into which category Polson falls?

[Bigsouthking]

Only on Flamefans is there talk of a walk-on on another team that never atttended LU ---

Dumb debate, move forward and lock this thread.

Guess what Jarrod Polson is not thinking about LU and does not care about LU.

[Cider Jim]

Where is former walk-on SCAR who normally takes partial credit for Bailey Alston's success?

[olldflame]

Where is former walk-on SCAR who normally takes partial credit for Bailey Alston's success?

SCAR was a walkon, but he got playing time even before he earned his scholarship. Despite getting the schollie, Polson played even less as a Soph than he did as a Freshman.

Noone doubts the work that these guys put in. But I'm reading a lot about sacrifice here and not much about reward. . The exception was the point that was well made about him being able to flash his national championship ring when he goes to job interviews in his home state and the fact that he will have personal relationships with a bunch of multimillionairs. It's definately a tradeoff, and he may never know what could have happened if he had gone somewhere else. My impression is that quite frankly this is too good a ball player to spend 4 years busting his butt and not have an opportunity to play. Kindof a waste IMHO, and that has nothing to do with LU, or whether he could have made us better.

[bballfan84]

I am a former walk-on at Liberty and to say that these players have no impact on the team is absolutely absurd. I'm not saying this to boost my own ego about playing on a college team, but it needs to be said. It shows ones lack of knowledge regarding college athletics. Walk-on's go through every drill, every workout, every sprint, every practice--all for the love of the game. They receive no money and generally get no reward. Alot of times the walk-ons go off in practice and drive the head coach crazy at how bad the starters are playing. You don't think that matters? You don't think having a scout team full of walk-ons to simulate VMI's uptempo offense matters?

You obviously didn't watch the post-game show where it showed Calipari talking to his team in the locker room after the game. He looked at Jarrod and the walk-on sitting beside him and said something to effect of "If you two guys don't come together and compete everyday, we don't win this." I'm glad to see that most of this board feels the same way.

I am a former walk on of a D1 program..there is nothing I have experienced that was harder than college athletics.

[bballfan84]

Walk-on's go through every drill, every workout, every sprint, every practice--all for the love of the game.

^^^This isn't necessarily true. I agree with the overwhelming majority here regarding walk-on's. But such a blanket statement simply isn't true. I've witnessed the inner-workings of a number of men's and women's basketball programs from various levels. In my first-hand experience, just as many programs' walk-ons sit for gross amounts of practice and off-court workouts as ones who are as equally involved as scholarship S-A's.

Can anyone here say for CERTAIN into which category Polson falls?

I was involved in absolutely everything when I was a player..in my experience a walk on player does everything that the team goes through and I am not just referring to my own personal experience

[lynchburgwildcats]

Walk-on's go through every drill, every workout, every sprint, every practice--all for the love of the game.

^^^This isn't necessarily true. I agree with the overwhelming majority here regarding walk-on's. But such a blanket statement simply isn't true. I've witnessed the inner-workings of a number of men's and women's basketball programs from various levels. In my first-hand experience, just as many programs' walk-ons sit for gross amounts of practice and off-court workouts as ones who are as equally involved as scholarship S-A's.

Can anyone here say for CERTAIN into which category Polson falls?

Polson most definitely contributes in practice, if for nothing else because he has too. They only had 12 healthy players and only 11 of them were allowed to travel (one is a transfer who isn't eligible this year and thus isn't allowed to travel).

[Purple Haize]

Also, think of this. How tough is it to go to practice everyday and then on game day after all the pregame hype and build up realize you have absolutely no shot of playing. Then get up the next day and do it all over again. Intrinsic motivation.

[olldflame]

Jarred had 10 points and 3 assists in 22 minutes against Maryland last night. I guess dreams sometimes do come true.

[lynchburgwildcats]

Jarred had 10 points and 3 assists in 22 minutes against Maryland last night. I guess dreams sometimes do come true.

Considering his role, he played fantastic in place of Ryan Harrow who was attempting to play through something like the flu.