What's the skinny ?
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bacdorslider posted:What's the skinny ?
If a player has a red shirt freshman season he would be allowed another for medical, without asking permission from the NCAA.
The changes I think is the first redshirt has to be as a freshman.
Not sure if that's 100% correct, but it sounds reasonable.
bacdorslider posted:
I do believe all red shirts are included in the 35 man roster.
I know they made rs changes in football but was anything else done in other sports?
No recent changes to any sport other than football. And the old underlying rule still applies to all sports--you have eligibility to play college sports for the first 5 years, defined as 10 semesters or 15 quarters for those of us with RS who happen to be on a quarter system. So a football player may not burn their RS year now if they happened to play a few games, but they still have a max period of 5 years to be eligible. So that new flexibility could only impact one season anyway.
And yes, RS players do count among the 35 roster limit. It makes sense to keep coaches from pushing players into a RS situation to add someone else to the roster.
Backstop22 posted:No recent changes to any sport other than football. And the old underlying rule still applies to all sports--you have eligibility to play college sports for the first 5 years, defined as 10 semesters or 15 quarters for those of us with RS who happen to be on a quarter system. So a football player may not burn their RS year now if they happened to play a few games, but they still have a max period of 5 years to be eligible. So that new flexibility could only impact one season anyway.
And yes, RS players do count among the 35 roster limit. It makes sense to keep coaches from pushing players into a RS situation to add someone else to the roster.
I do believe that FB players now are allowed up to (4) games and then declare a redshift the following year.
That is maybe where I got confused, but be aware that a player can be granted a medical waiver as well.
Need Rick for a clarification.
I'm pretty sure that in terms of eligibility, it does not matter the reason for the Redshirt--medical or not. No matter if a kid gets hurt or a coach decides a player should take a RS year for development (typically the first year), a student athlete is only eligible to play sports during a 5 year (10 semesters or 15 quarters) from when they become a student.
That did not change with the Football rule change--just the fact that a player could play in 4 games and get hurt and now be able to call that a RS year. He still loses his eligibility to play college football when the 5-year window closes.