One of the tricks of the trade for Division 1 football coaches is to give an "athlete" a track scholarship when they have reached their limit of 25 scholarship in one recruiting year. This way the young man can get a scholarship, run track and still play football.
This was not the case with Joe Reynolds from Rochester Adams in Michigan. U of M's track coach Fred LaPlante took Joe's high school football video over to Rich Rod's office and Rich gave Joe a preferred walk on spot on the 2009 squad.
"He liked what he saw," said Reynolds, who is at U-M on the track scholarship and will run in the winter and spring. "He said I ran great routes and attacked the ball well."
Joe played DB and WR in high school and accounted for 700 yards receiving and 7 touchdowns as a senior. My guess is Joe should focus on the DB position if he wants to have a clearer path to playing time. Either way, I hope it works out for the soon to be Freshman, because we always can use more speed at the Big House.
Joe plans to enroll at U of M for summer classes so he can start participating in the "player" 7-7 practices.
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