Red-Shirt/"off the continent" games

Great question and the NCAA site isn't specific in regards to that exact question. They do have this.

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Redshirt Definition
The term "redshirt" is used to describe a student-athlete who does not participate in competition in a sport for an entire academic year. If you do not compete in a sport the entire academic year, you have not used a season of competition. For example, if you are a qualifier, and you attend a four-year college your freshman year, and you practice but do not compete against outside competition, you would still have the next four years to play four seasons of competition.

Each student is allowed no more than four seasons of competition per sport. If you were not a qualifier, you may have fewer seasons of competition available to you. You should know that NCAA rules indicate that any competition, regardless of time, during a season counts as one of your seasons of competition in that sport. It does not matter how long you were involved in a particular competition (for example, one play in a football game, one point in a volleyball match); you will be charged with one season of competition.

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The way I read it, the intent is to allow a player who is redshirting to scrimmage with HIS team only. If it IS a grey area, I would bet that the coach wouldn't risk loosing a year of eligibility for a player in a meaningless contest.

hokie

Question--are they allowing him to travel with the team?

TRhit

Are redshirts allowed to travel with the team? If a team is allowed a 25 man travel team during conference play and they take 25 active players....are they allowed to take redshirts if they are not active players? I know they won't, I was just wondering.

This is a dumb question but if a player even pinch hits in one game they cannot be classified as a redshirt? Correct?

ofmom03

There are various types of redshirts

If he bats once and then gets hurt and is out for the season the school can file for a redshirt with the NCAA and in most cases get it

TRhit

I would be concerned about this phrase:

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but do not compete against outside competition,

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Playing in Hawaii against "outside competition" would seem to be a violation to me.

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Wouldn't outside competition refer to non-collegiate teams (like MLB rookie/minor teams, other countries (Puerto Rico, European, etc??)
Or would it be playing teams in another NCAA division like D1 playing DII..

Hokie - From what I understand, if a player plays in no NCAA sanctioned school competitions for one year than that year can also be considered a red-shirt year.. As far as red-shirts traveling, Chris tells me that a few of last seasons WVU redshirts did travel to games Last year but he doesnt know if they were tournaments, in conference or out of conference games.

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He doesn't travel to out of town games but will be going to Hawaii-the whole squad, including redshirts, will be going. My guess is he won't be playing in the Hawaii games, but I'll ask him to go and ask the coaches. I wondered how long he would be content with red-shirting, and got my answer this past weekend-"not very". Wouldn't want it any other way.....

Hokie,

You have a PM.

does the player have a say in whether or not to redshirt, or just the coach? is it a good choice for a young college freshman? i.e. turning 18 just before college starts?