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09-25-2012, 11:47 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-25-2012, 04:14 PM by
terry.)
All of the freshmen who have appeared in one or more of our games this year all have used a season of eligibility, unless they become eligible for a medical redshirt.
The medical redshirt rule has several requirements:
(1) The player must have suffered a season-ending injury, which must be proved by medical documentation.
(2) The player must have appeared in no more than 30% of his team's games. For football, 30% works out to 4 games (30% of 12 = 3.6; the rule says all fractions are rounded up, so 3.6 is rounded up to 4).
(3) The season-ending injury must have occurred in the first half of the season (for football, that means before the kickoff of the 7th game).
For example, a player would be eligible for a medical redshirt if he were to appear in games 1, 2, 4, and 6, then were to suffer a season-ending injury in practice before game 7.
So far as I'm aware, none of the true freshmen who have played have suffered a season-ending injury. So I'm not aware of any freshmen who might be eligible for a medical redshirt. (Blake Lueders should be able to get a medical redshirt, if his injury keeps him out of action all year long.)