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TE Sam Hart (transfer to Colorado)

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And don't forget the 35-0 Colorado state championship wrestler Mr. Sam Hart

Akron Rick said:
Two sport athletes at this level are rare but they do exist. But wrestling is SO grueling and even if Day and Ryan could work out some sort of schedule for him I can't imagine him keeping his grades up and satisfying both coaches. So how does that work on scholarship $$? Does football give the full ride and wrestling just gets what time football says they can have, or do they split the scholly and time equally?
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Re: Does football give the full ride and wrestling just gets what time football says they can have....

YES, football is a "head count" sport, he'd be 100% on a football scholarship:

Only some sports offer full-ride scholarships. These are called head count sports, Leccesi says. In the NCAA, these include only football for the Football Bowl Subdivision, formerly known as Division I-A, and basketball for Division I.
For instance, an NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision team is allowed 85 scholarships per year for 85 athletes. These cannot be divided among more athletes, Leccesi says.
https://www.usnews.com/education/be...ge/articles/myths-about-athletic-scholarships
 
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Ohio State commitments all around the country are awaiting final decisions to be made about their upcoming football seasons. One of those players, tight end Sam Hart, got bad news on Tuesday night.

Colorado will push its football season to the spring. That means Hart had his own decision to make: Enroll early or play his final year of high school football. It didn’t take him long to make his choice.



“It’s just one of those things we can’t control,” Hart told Lettermen Row. “I was kind of prepared for this and thought about [skipping early enrollment]. But I think me graduating early is the best thing for me and my future.”

Now the question for Hart and others in a similar position changes. What can he do from now until January and his enrollment date? He’s hoping for some help in that respect from Ohio State, but he isn’t counting on much changing even with the bizarre state of college football.

“I wish they could do more for us,” Hart saiid. “But I’m going to talk to one of the coaches soon about what they can do with me. I know [Ohio State tight ends] Coach [Kevin] Wilson wanted to get me on Zoom calls during their position meetings and stuff.”

With only a semester of high school football remaining, Hart could have considered reclassifying to the Class of 2020 and enrolling with the Buckeyes now, but that was not really a piece of the puzzle for him.

“I’m just about finished with an English course to get all my credits,” he added. “But I didn’t think about reclassifying.”
 
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Hart probably thought Jeremy Ruckert would go pro following the 2020 season, opening the door for early playing time as a freshman. However, it certainly can’t hurt for him to learn behind a guy that he has been compared to in the past, and a tight end that Hart looks up to as someone he can emulate at the next level.

“That’s pretty special to me because when I get there, that’s who I’m gonna look up to,” Hart said to Eleven Warriors of the Ruckert comparisons. “He’s a great role model to look up to. He’s an upperclassman and he’s done a lot of great things with the program, and he’s got a bright future ahead of him. That’s kind of my goal right now.”

Ohio State isn’t exactly a place known for its tight end usage, but the Buckeyes were always at the front of Hart’s mind during the recruiting process.

“I kind of had them in my mind. I went on visits at the end of June and in July, and I went on some game day visits to Notre Dame and USC. Those were my other top-two choices,” Hart said. “But I kind of knew Ohio State was my favorite throughout that, and then that Penn State game it was like, ‘This is my home. I’m ready.’ A few weeks later, I called up Coach [Tony] Alford, Coach Wilson and Coach [Ryan] Day and committed, and I’ve been so happy with my decision.”
 
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