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Go read the rules on academic redshirts. Academic redshirts are kids who don't meet the NCAA required GPA upon graduation of high school. Every kid we redshirt this year will be a medical redshirt.Question on Njoku: Is is possible to use a medical redshirt if you are injured in practice during a season you are already redshirting? If he's looking at a 12 month recovery, he'll likely miss next season too, or at least not be a significant contributor to next season. Wonder if he can medical redshirt this season, redshirt next season and retain 4 years of eligibility.
No. All redshirts are medical redshirts. You can't just redshirt a player because he isn't ready to contribute or you don't need him. There has to be an "injury" that prevents the player from playing a certain percentage of games.
BS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshirt_(college_sports)
"Student athletes become redshirts for many reasons. One reason is that the athlete may not be ready to balance the demands of academic requirements with athletic requirements. Redshirting provides the opportunity, with tutoring, to take some classes and get accustomed to the academic demands. They also may redshirt to gain a year of practice with the team prior to participating in competition. In college football, a student athlete may redshirt to increase size and strength toward the completion of overall physical maturity, desirable assets for many positions. As the college years coincide with the final phases of physical maturity, using a year of eligibility in the last college year is generally more beneficial to the team and to the student athlete's potential professional prospects than it is to use the same year of eligibility in the first college year. Players, especially in football, may redshirt to learn the team's play book, since college teams typically run a greater number of, and more complex, plays than most high school teams.
Athletes may be asked to redshirt if they would have little or no opportunity to play as an academic freshman. This is a common occurrence in many sports where there is already an established starter, or too much depth at the position the freshman in question plans to play or that the coach would want to use the player as a starter later in his career so that he can play for four years instead of three.
A special case involves the eligibility of a player who loses the majority of a season to injury. Popularly known as a medical redshirt, a hardship waiver may be granted to athletes who appear in fewer than 30% of team competitions (none after the midpoint of the season) then suffers a season-ending injury. Players granted such a waiver are treated for the purposes of eligibility as though they did not compete in that season.
On rare occasions, players may be allowed to play in their sixth year of college—if they suffered a serious injury that kept them from playing for more than one season..."
Never double down on idiocy.
