Question for the Broad: New Redshirt Rules

Dennis_DeYoung said:

ntxduck said:

I think you break it into 3 tiers;

True Freshmen who aren't ready physically. These are your guys who in years past would immediately put the RS on upon stepping on campus. Play them in your 4 easiest games (assuming you get up big in each of them) just to give them some garbage time experience.

True Freshmen who may be ready, but due to the depth chart may not see much action. I would play these guys in 1-2 of the easy OOC games for some seasoning to see how they do, then hold on to their last 2-3 games for the later part of the season (when injuries start to add up). That way they can play a couple games in November when depth is needed, without burning their RS.

True Freshmen who are ready to contribute; Play them in every game, as you did in year's past.

You would only play true freshman who are ready to play if they’re in the two deeps.

Outside of that it wastes a year of eligibility. And newsflash to all dawgman subscribers, a minority of people who play as true freshmen go to the draft early.

One of the reasons why, in the past, frosh outside of the two deeps played a lot was because you didn’t want to waste a season.

Welp you won’t burn their eligibility unless they play in too many games. But I strongly agree that you don’t play guys who you know would redshirt under the old rules. You use it as a reward system for guys,that show out in practice consistently, in the laughers and give them some run. You have a full house of Pete recruits now and each player has a long term plan. If you’re using it to suddenly Sr guys, then you have a problem considering they are all Pete’s. But I don’t see that happening even with BBK. For teams with new coaches, it’s a Godsend however.