Back to the BYU Cougars Newsfeed

Dick Harmon: High academic standards make recruiting walk-ons to BYU a real challenge

Spenser Heaps, Deseret News

Players and coaches huddle at the end of the BYU football spring practice and scrimmage at LaVell Edwards Stadium in Provo on Saturday, March 25, 2017.

There was a time when if we had interest in a football player that had decent grades, we could just get him into school. That isn't the case anymore. We have no magic wand.

PROVO — Brains and shoulder pads.

If you are a walk-on football player at BYU, you’d better be able to do more than walk in the classroom or you won’t ever walk into the locker room or onto the field.