Coaches Asking For Redshirts to Be Able to Play in Up To Four Games

[Moiraine]

1 hour ago, Red Five said:

I don’t see it as being a huge issue. If someone is good enough they will play. No one is going to be held back for certain games/situations imo.

 

You would need to keep tabs if there are a bunch of home blowouts when you are emptying the roster in Q4.  Road games won’t matter as much as you can only take so many players.

 

Could you imagine the blowback if NU is 3-5, then plays a freshman/men who blow up and the team wins out the last 4 games? People would be howling about how not getting these kids on the field sooner.

 

 

 

There are more true freshmen on the team than just the super talented ones who probably never would have redshirted in the first place. It is a big deal in my opinion to get reps for those other guys that normally would redshirt. 

 

Hypothetically if you have a 2nd string Jr and a true freshman who is tied with him, maybe in previous years you’d definitely redshirt him. But now with this rule, the freshman can be part of the rotation and keep legs fresh.

[Mavric]

Pretty interesting point brought up on the HOL podcast:

 

If you can get some of the marginal guys into a couple games for some live reps, you can show them on film what they need to work on to move up the depth chart or why they need to take a redshirt season to work on things.

[Mavric]

.... from the "be careful what you wish for" department.