If the recent trend of #ScholarshipAlerts has taught us anything, it's that the only thing stopping you from being super-creative or personal is your imagination. That brings us to today's double dose #ScholarshipAlert featuring Southern Illinois and Hawaii.
First up is Southern Illinois, where, while in a team meeting, head coach Nick Hill first called out the one remaining guy scholarship player one of the upper classes (where they started with about 20 guys), and then called the five walk-ons in that class out to the front of the room to publicly praise their leadership, commitment and buy-in.
Then coach Hill calls up walk-on offensive lineman Bryce Wagner, who has worked his tail off and dropped nearly 60 pounds and entered fall camp practicing with the one's battling for a starting spot.
After pointing out some observations about Wagner's work impressive ethic to the team, coach Hill calls out another walk-on to award Wagner with a scholarship.
Check out the emotional moment in the clip.
https://youtu.be/NxxGqcl-yNc
Meanwhile, down in Hawaii, head coach Nick Rolovich continued his streak of creativeness by bringing in Korean pop group Fantasie to help award defensive lineman Zeno Choi with a scholarship.
Fantasie handed Choi a gift bag with an envelop inside, and before that envelope could even be opened, the players sniffed out what was going on and couldn't help but mob their teammate in celebration.
Check out Hawaii's #ScholarshipAlert below.
https://youtu.be/tc9mYdm9Yls