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One thing not addressed regarding red-shirting is this... a major (and arguably the most important) question to ask regarding whether a student/athlete should be red-shirted or not is this... "does this student/athlete have a better probability of graduating if he redshirts?"

 

The whole concept of red-shirting is to facilitate the student/athlete in graduating. If a student/athlete comes into college with 10,15, 20... 25 credits already earned from AP classes and/or early college equivalent courses in High School and has an ACT of 25 or higher --- or other such indicators that suggest that graduating in 4 years is a high probability... then red-shirting will not be needed on academic grounds --- and then roster management questions can govern whether to use a red-shirt or not. But... if a student/athlete is comes in with few (or no) prior earned credits and is a marginal student (as many, perhaps most are) then red-shirting should be the only course of action --- on academic grounds --- independent of roster management criteria.

 

This is how it should be done. Maximize the probability of graduation. 95%+ of these guys will never see the NFL --- and those few who do... they see it for a few years at best. Use the red-shirt system on academic grounds first and then use the red-shirt system (or not use it) on roster management grounds only if the student/athlete is already in good shape academically.

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One thing not addressed regarding red-shirting is this... a major (and arguably the most important) question to ask regarding whether a student/athlete should be red-shirted or not is this... "does this student/athlete have a better probability of graduating if he redshirts?"

 

The whole concept of red-shirting is to facilitate the student/athlete in graduating. If a student/athlete comes into college with 10,15, 20... 25 credits already earned from AP classes and/or early college equivalent courses in High School and has an ACT of 25 or higher --- or other such indicators that suggest that graduating in 4 years is a high probability... then red-shirting will not be needed on academic grounds --- and then roster management questions can govern whether to use a red-shirt or not. But... if a student/athlete is comes in with few (or no) prior earned credits and is a marginal student (as many, perhaps most are) then red-shirting should be the only course of action --- on academic grounds --- independent of roster management criteria.

 

This is how it should be done. Maximize the probability of graduation. 95%+ of these guys will never see the NFL --- and those few who do... they see it for a few years at best. Use the red-shirt system on academic grounds first and then use the red-shirt system (or not use it) on roster management grounds only if the student/athlete is already in good shape academically.

 

the reason this topic is not addressed in red shirting a guy is because that is not how red shirting is used. its used for a player that is not ready physically to perform at the highest level.

 

lets say you are a coach. you have an incoming freshman who has no credits to his name,(which is most high school kids going into their first year of college) who had lets say a 2.7 gpa, only got an 18 on his ACT, but has the football ability of an ahman green type his freshman year. are you going to make him redshirt so he can be on a pace to graduate or are you going to throw him out of the field to win you some games? these days you can get fired for winning only 9 games ya know? (too soon?)

 

there will never be a coach to redshirt his players for graduation purposes. it just will never happen with the win now and collect the almighty dollar mentality college sports is surrounded with.

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