MSU Red Cedar Message Board

Walk ons would murder any IM team. This is a dumb ass question, especially at a B1G school.

Like someone said above, the walk-on's are not the best basketball players at a school. You automatically lose the players that need to work to pay for school, those with a middling gpa, those that don't want to make the time commitment and anyone that is playing a different sport at MSU. I guarantee that between those 4 categories you could find a better team of players.

I had no idea that walk-ons need a 4.0 or else they are done. Team GPA should only count for scholly players. 3.5 minimum would be more fair for walk- ons.

Take our five walk-ons vs. the best 5 student basketball players on campus(exclude football players), and I would choose the student players over the walk-ons 2 times out of 3. Another hypothetical...best of 3 games...throw Byrd with 4 walk-ons...could they win 2 out of 3 up to 12 full court. Gauna would be a ringer though at 6-10.

If you exclude the Football Players I think that it would be a much better game, not sure about 2 out of 3 but I agree that they would win at least half of the time.

Huh, lots of teams have 6-7 gumps who never get off the bench.

Sounds like they would be unbeatable.

At a school the size of MSU? Fuck no. Give me IM all stars all day long. There were some crazy talented kids even in my high school who didn't play high school ball. People need to realize that the structure and commitment of organized school sports isn't for everyone.

Wrong. Most walk ons stay walk ons in a basketball program like MSU's, very few are preffered walk ons who are offered a scholarship later on in their careers

I just have to say, this thread represents everything that is good about the RCMB.

It nearly brought a tear to my eye.

If the IM all stars get two months of coaching by Tom Izzo, they win going away. Too much athleticism.

There are also a lot of kids in the IMs who could be playing at some small school but came to state instead because they could afford to attend college without a scholarship and would rather attend a school with good academics, good parties and good looking woman over a school with lesser academics, bad parties, and ugly woman.

IM all stars, not even close.

#1 The walk ons are all kids with very high grades and team players. They need to pass the ball in practice and thats about it.

#2 I have seen a MSU walk on team just play a random group of good players at the gym and get demolished. You wouldn't even be able to tell they were "MSU basketball players". There are always a few good players but there are some VERY good IM basketball players out there. Many just don't want to play college. I have seen IM players play a team with Korie, Kalin, Nix, and Summers a few years ago. Obviously the MSU team won but it wasn't as much of a blowout as you would think.

I played against Ualbany and Siena walk ons this past summer Our team won hands down but mostly because there are tons of talented inner city kids who just dont give two shits to be coached and have zero commitment. And1 ballers with little.fundamentals but tons of flash.