In his first team meeting with his players, Head Coach Ryan Walters announced that before they got started with the meeting Devin Mockobee would be immediately placed on scholarship for the remainder of his career with the Boilermakers. After walking in, Walters announced that he would be ‘pulling rank’ and placing Mockobee on scholarship and said “I played against you guys and when I found out he was a walk-on I was like ‘what the hell going on over there?’ So first order of business I’m going to pull rank right now and you are on scholarship.”
Clearly a popular choice to be given a scholarship, many fans wondered why Mockobee went the entire season without being placed on scholarship.