Word: walk-on
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...former walk-on to catch the eye of some of the biggest names in one of the top conferences in Division I basketball is something. But for that same walk-on to have started out as a football recruit at Harvard borders upon unbelievable...
...Puchtel had initially wanted to be a Golden Gopher, since his father Scott had been a two-time football letterwinner at Minnesota, but he was reportedly informed that there would be no spots for him on the school’s basketball team and that he would have to walk-on to the football team...
...back and asking the football coach for another chance, but my pride wouldn’t let me do that,” Puchtel said. “Then I just started looking elsewhere, so I contacted [a connection at Minnesota], and he said that they had one open walk-on spot [on the basketball team] and that they’d love to have...
...from one conditioning regimen to another. And the time spent across the Charles—well, it adds up. And then there’s the issue of loyalty, as Rob Fried ’04 indicated to The Crimson during his senior year. A hockey recruit and lacrosse walk-on, Fried explained that an incoming athlete “has a certain level of indebtedness to those coaches who facilitated his matriculation.” And, Fried added, “some coaches do not feel comfortable with the two-sport commitment because of the risk of injury...
This spring, he will have a walk-on part in the Lowell House Opera...