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Originally Posted by agzg
What about walk-ons with academic scholarships?
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There are pretty strict rules about this - essentially, walk-ons can only earn academic scholarships when the school can prove that the scholarship was given based purely on merit (unrelated to athletics), and that the award was no more (or, I guess, less) than what other comparable students received.
Obviously the academic scholarship is tied to academic standing, and not football.
So-called "outside scholarships" (33's "Good-hearted citizen" in this instance - basically anything given by entities other than the school) are VERY strongly policed - they are the easiest source of impermissible benefits, obviously.
As far as "poaching" players/lying to players - there's apparently something of a "gentleman's agreement*" among B10 coaches (and some that know O'Brien from the wayback) not to contact athletes directly, but that any athlete that expresses interest in a specific program can be accepted. So basically, no recruiting within the conference - obviously outside groups ("Smoke weed/ talk shit like Lane Kiffin" --Lil Weezy) aren't beholden, and if you didn't see USC's press conference love letter to Silas Redd you should check it out. However, it's essentially the same as 'regular' recruiting, except the player has gone through however many years of workouts and can make an even better determination of how the depth chart etc. look.
*May not apply to Urban Meyer