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Parent Advice. Team Spotlight. However, if their current quarterback is a junior, they know that the recruited quarterback may not play for 2 years. Instead of wasting a year of his eligibility, coaches will redshirt the freshman and not lose any playing time.
They also benefit from being on the team, as they will practice and do everything a football player does, except play in games. This means that they redshirted their first year or at some point in their college career. For example, if a player goes to a college, and they redshirt their first year. Their second year at the college will be their redshirt freshman year. Their next year will be their redshirt sophomore year and so on.
Players will not be able to lose their redshirt tag, as it will follow them throughout college. In sports like football, schemes and systems can get very complicated. Coaches will often redshirt players to make sure that the system is taught properly to the player.
Often teams will elect not to redshirt a player and have them compete for a position. Another type of redshirt is the medical redshirt. The medical redshirt was put in place to help out athletes who got hurt during the season. If a player has a catastrophic injury such as an ACL tear, they may be eligible for a medical redshirt.
A player who is granted such a waiver is treated for the purposes of his or her eligibility as though he or she had not competed in that season. On rare occasions, a player may be allowed to play in his or her sixth year of college if he or she suffered a serious injury which kept him or her from playing for more than one season.
Former Oklahoma Sooners quarterback Jason White is perhaps the best known example of this, as he had redshirted his freshman year, then subsequently tore the ACL in both knees, causing him to miss nearly two years of eligible playing time. A more recent example is former Houston Cougars quarterback Case Keenum , now a member of the Houston Texans practice squad.
His story is similar to that of White; Keenum redshirted his freshman year of , and then tore an ACL three games into the season, which would have otherwise been his final year of eligibility. The term redshirt freshman indicates an academic sophomore second-year student who is in his first season of athletic eligibility. A redshirt freshman is distinguished from a true freshman first-year student as one who has practiced with the team for the prior season.
The term redshirt sophomore is also commonly used to indicate an academic junior third-year student who is in the second season of athletic eligibility. After the sophomore year, the term redshirt is rarely used, in favor of fourth-year junior and fifth-year senior. Athletes may also utilize a "grayshirt" year in which they attend school, but cannot enroll as a full-time student, and do not receive a scholarship for that year.
This means that they are an unofficial member of the team and do not participate in practices, games, or receive financial assistance from their athletic department. Typically, grayshirts are players who are injured right before college and require an entire year to recuperate. Rather than waste his or her redshirt, the player can attend school as a part-time regular student and then join the team later. This is also utilized by players with religious or military obligations that keep them out of school for a full academic year.
While the redshirt status may be conferred by a coach at the beginning of the year, it is not confirmed until the end of the season, and more specifically, it does not rule a player ineligible in advance to participate in the season.
If a player shows great talent, or there are injuries on the team, the coach may remove the redshirt status and allow the player to participate in competition for the remainder of the year.
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