fufanatic wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 11:42 am
The Jackal wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 7:44 am
paladinduece wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 11:58 am
Going to be interesting how the 4 game redshirt rule will play into things. I like the rule. Can keep your redshirt but get a chance to get a fair number of real game snaps.....and nothing helps a kid mature like game experience.
I think it might also help other situations as well.
If my memory is correct, last year Wofford was banged up at running back heading into their playoff contest with NDSU. They had a kid (Lovelace, I think) who had not played a single snap all season that they had to pull a redshirt off to play in just that game. That is, he spent the entire season on the bench intending to redshirt, but lost the redshirt in the third week of the postseason to play in a single game due to injuries on the depth chart.
Do the four games have to be at the beginning of the season? While I'm OK with it, it seems kinda bizarre that you could toss a player into four random games - including the playoffs - and still keep the redshirt.
So, there are probably some parameters that will dictate how the rule is applied. My understanding is that the point of the rule is to avoid the result that faced Wofford last year - play a guy for a short bit in the last game of the season and he loses an entire season of eligibility.
Realistically, teams aren't going to play guys they intend on redshirting unless in (1) dire situations or (2) blowouts. So it probably isn't going to have that big of an effect. In a three point 4th quarter game you aren't going to throw a freshman out there just to get a look at him.
Last season, I think, Blazejowski went out with an injury against UTC. Harris Roberts took the snaps at backup. If Roberts had gone down (even for a play), I'm not sure what Furman would have done. It would have been a luxury to be able to play JeMar Lincoln in a spot reserve role without burning his redshirt.