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My son is a soph at a D1, he did not redshirt last year. Can he take a regular redshirt year, this year.

Thanks

I saw it happen at my son's school a few years back. The rule is they have five years to complete four years fo eligibility. Here is the story....

Freshman catcher got limited AB's and playing time but was not spectacular. The school recruited some junior transfers and juco catchers the following year and this young man felt he did not want to blow a year of eligibility potentially playing behind these players so he asked and was granted a redshirt as a sophmore. The following year as a redshirt sophmore he hit over .300 and caught the back-end of all double headers along with DH duties. Last year he was conference player of the year, All-American, National finalist for the Johnny Bench award, and a fifth round draft choice of the Mets. And now you know the rest of the story....

Thanks Cleve, we can only hope that's how my son's career goes.

We were hoping to redshirt last year, but things happened and he played some.

Virtually the whole team returns intact this year. Therefore, I don't see a lot of change in playing time from last year, depending on circumstances. There will be a large turnover after this year.

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Correct me if I am wrong...but with the new rules to smaller rosters and a squashed schedule the whole DI redshirt scenerio has changed....

...unlike before when teams could hide/hold redshirts at the end of the roster and so not have them effect your extended rotation...."real" redshirts, those that are practicing with the team, are now counted on the 35 man roster...Meaning that those redshirt players may now now need to produce on teams that use their full rosters.

...On the other hand I have been regularly scoulded that teams only need 30 players...so in that scenerio 5 could redshirt...

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