@JucoDad posted:It's been my experience (pre-covid) that no kid wants to be redshirted at any level, it's the coaches choice (so nothing like parents holding their kids back) . Could be for a number of reasons, but what I've seen in juco It's mostly injury, sometimes maturity - why burn a year of a kids 4 years of eligibility if he's not going to play? @adbono would be best to answer this.
I have never been a fan of redshirting at a JuCo. To me it only makes sense in the event of an injury or unusual circumstances. Of course this was before Covid and the (in some cases) two extra years of JuCo eligibility. Because of that almost all rosters have expanded and many coaches have opted to put a redshirt on some of the additional players. I’m not a fan of this but situations are so different from program to program I could see how it might make sense on a rare occasion.
There are JuCo coaches who have realized that expanded rosters lead to expanded problems. And they are reverting back to pre-Covid roster sizes and not over recruiting. Those are the programs to seek out.
But the R designation on a JuCo roster (at this point in time) is an indication of additional years of eligibility granted. Not an indication that the player actually took a redshirt year in the conventional way.