(08-14-2019 08:35 PM)Seahawkhoops Wrote: (08-14-2019 06:57 PM)CG_Hawk06 Wrote: Just saw the UNCW Alumni Association posted a video on Facebook an hour ago in which Coach McGrath surprised sophomore walk-on Brent Jenkins with a scholarship.
Anyone with more info on this?
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There goes the open scolly we were hoping would go to a big.
But, i do love to see stories like this regardless of the team. Good to see his hard work pay off for him.
It is, indeed, a cool story. But several questions come to mind .
Since Jenkins is a sophomore, did Coach just effectively tie that scholarship up for 3 years? Or will Jenkins be a scholarship player for this year only?
If if is understood to be a one-year scholarship, was the highest and best use of the last scholarship to reward a hard-working walk on vs. bringing on board the best-available grad transfer big? There are still grad transfer bigs in the transfer portal that are at
least walk-on quality in there abilities, and they are - well -
big.)
I like the walk-on-makes-good story, but if I couldn't find a big that I wanted to tie a scholarship up with for multiple years I would have gotten the best grad transfer big body available for this year.
I will bet a dollar that before this season is over there will be an "in case of emergency, break glass situation" - due to injury or fouls - where we would have said 'thank goodness we have random best available big body to some off the bench to give us the size we need to try to fill the hole'. I will further bet a dollar that when that situation arises this season no one will be saying , "thank goodness Brent Jenkins is on scholarship".