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'04 MA K John Barker (Syracuse)

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"I'll go out there this summer and work out with the team. Under NCAA rules, I can practice with the team until the start of the season, and then I can't practice until I enroll." He plans to register as a student starting in January, giving up a fifth year of eligibility and an athletic scholarship.
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That doesn't make any sense to me, but then again it is 5am
 
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great find- I wonder how this would affect Pettrey?

Pettrey was supposed to gray shirt and start in Jan '05 but this article indicates that John Barker would be doing the same thing. I can't believe tOSU would use two schollies in the same year on a kicker.

Thanks for the info.
 
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Under NCAA rules, I can practice with the team until the start of the season, and then I can't practice until I enroll.
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That part makes sense because it is the same thing Boeckman did.

giving up a fifth year of eligibility and an athletic scholarship.
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I don't understand why he would be giving up a fifth year, but this does seem to imply he wasn't promised a schollie. I would be very surprised if he was told he could do anything more than 'earn' a schollie.
 
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I think I'd rather take a chance on another kicker rather than banking on Pettrey to get the job done from day one. Too risky to bet on one freshman starting. That's what has me worried about our punting game.

I'll tell Coach Todd he may have another pitcher to work with.
 
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What an impressive story and nice to hear a recruit from another state talk about Ohio State University that way. I was surprised to hear the Tim Fox and Coach Tressel are good friends. That is surprising to me. I wonder how many ex-Ohio state players are doing good things like that for thier alma-mater. Way to go Tim. I hope he turns out to be a good find.
 
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I think it's a good idea to have 3 scholorship K/P around. Right now we have Huston, Trapasso, and Nuge, and after they're gone we'd have Trapasso, Pettrey, and Barker(if indeed he's getting a scholie). Depth at that position is good. Can you imagine if we didn't bring in Nuge because we already had Huston(no knock on Josh).
 
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