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Reply to "Surgery before Jr. year in D1 college, scholarship and school work"

I believe there are 2  types of red shirt status: Medical  and hardship . Clearly, he will be a medical red shirt if he has surgery and is post surgery / rehab as a Junior . So, yes he gets another year of eligibility. But he can not play at all next year. Not one pitch or one AB.

Opinions will vary on the impact the injury will have on his scholarship. Essentially , an NCAA scholarship is renewable annually regardless of an injury or not. So, for example , if the player was healthy and played but in the coaches view didn't contribute enough or show enough potential to improve he indeed could lose his scholarship for the upcoming year. So that component already exists and needs to be considered .

With guys that are hurt and go through surgery most programs will honor the upcoming season. Or try to construct a financial package that includes other sources of money , Needs based or merit based aid packages to keep the player on campus and on the roster. As a rule MOST programs stick by guys that get hurt but there are clearly exceptions and hopefully we will see some other opinions here that can help you.

 

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