{"id":4594,"date":"2015-02-03T17:55:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T17:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/rubio-long-snapping-blog\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2015-02-03T17:57:15","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T17:57:15","slug":"what-a-preferred-walk-on-needs-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/?p=4594","title":{"rendered":"What a Preferred Walk-On Needs to Ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You got a <a href=\"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/the-difference-between-a-walk-on-a-preferred-walk-on-and-a-full-scholarship\/\" target=\"_blank\">preferred walk-on<\/a> spot to a major university? That is great news BUT know what you are getting into&#8230;.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They (coaches\/school) will most likely try to bring in more than one preferred walk-on. They will do this for competition. <strong>ASK IF THEY ARE BRINGING SOMEONE ELSE IN<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>They will want you to get on campus soon. <strong>ASK WHAT IS THE EARLIEST YOU CAN BECOME A MEMBER OF THE TEAM<\/strong>. You will want to get there asap to get a jump on the rest of the athletes that will be competing with you for the scholarship.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>They will tell you that you can earn the scholarship. <strong>ASK EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO DO IN ORDER TO EARN THE SCHOLARSHIP<\/strong> (use the word <em>EXACTLY<\/em> so you can hold them to it)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>They will tell you that you can be put on scholarship immediately if you start. <strong>ASK EXACTLY WHEN YOU WILL BE PUT ON SCHOLARSHIP<\/strong>. Will it be after the first game you start, the next quarter\/semester, or the next year? (Yes, use the word <em>EXACTLY<\/em> again so you can hold them to it).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2536\" src=\"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/signature.jpg\" alt=\"signature\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3898\" src=\"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Rubio_Card_frontMAGNET-1024x585.jpg\" alt=\"Rubio_Card_frontMAGNET\" width=\"550\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Rubio_Card_frontMAGNET-1024x585.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Rubio_Card_frontMAGNET-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Rubio_Card_frontMAGNET.jpg 1051w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bawpvc-ajax-counter\" data-id=\"4594\">1610<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You got a preferred walk-on spot to a major university? That is great news BUT know what you are getting into&#8230;. They (coaches\/school) will most likely try to bring in more than one preferred walk-on. They will do this for competition. ASK IF THEY ARE BRINGING SOMEONE ELSE IN They will want you to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,82,90,35,28,2,5,65,3],"tags":[1152,6,91,7,705,23,568],"class_list":["post-4594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-athletics","category-coaches","category-college","category-deep-snapper","category-long-snapper","category-motivation","category-ncaa","category-recruiting","tag-athletic-scholarship","tag-chrisubio","tag-coaches-2","tag-collegeecruiting","tag-preferred-walk-on","tag-rubio-long-snapping","tag-scholarship","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4598,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions\/4598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rubiosblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}