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1) What is a preferred walk-on? What does the preference get them? – Centex Hokie
Chris Coleman: Just about every walk-on on the team is a preferred walk-on. The other term for them is “invited walk-on.” Guys like John Engelberger and Sam Rogers don’t just show up and try out for the team. They don’t enroll at Virginia Tech as regular students. They enroll as football players, but as football players without scholarships. I think a lot of people have always though of walk-ons as players taken out of the student body, when the vast majority of them are anything but.
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