Alumni help?

Submitted by Ziff72 on

I had kind of a wacky idea pop in my head when I started to think about our CB depth before the freshmen get here and how it will effect the quality of spring practice with only walk-ons to work against half the time in the secondary. Is it illegal for alumni to work out during spring practice?? I know it is not a realistic idea, but many of the guys are coming back to work out with Barwis so they could possibly be around and they don't have much going on NFL wise during that time as it is right before the draft. How much help would it be for the WR's to work against L. Hall and C. Woodson in drills as opposed to Steve from Engineering??

Again, I know it is a pipe dream, but is it illegal?? You used to hear about this with Miami football and North Carolina basketball, but I'm not sure when this happened in terms of actual practice or it was players only in the off-season

Wolverine In Exile

January 26th, 2010 at 11:48 AM ^

I don't think there'd be a regulation against it... I don't remember seeing anything like that in the research I did on the NCAA bylaws regarding off season and countable hours, but I reserve the judgement to be wrong.

EDIT:: I think though that if they showed up during officially sanctioned practices, they'd be counted as under the coaching staff limits imposed by the NCAA.