College football recruiters can be so skittish about giving full scholarships to punters and long snappers that it’s almost as if they are parting with a percentage of their salaries.
It’s hit-or-miss in projecting how high-school players at those positions will perform on the next level when the pressure is on, and many are given only a chance to walk on. Punter J. Schroeder of St. Charles and long snapper Wyatt Pfeifer of Buckeye Valley have rewarded Western Michigan tenfold for showing faith in them.
In turn, both say they wouldn’t be returning home as established players had the people standing behind them in their formative years not shown the same faith.