steviep123 wrote: ↑3 years ago
Don't players not really red shirt until after a season is over? So if player A doesn't play all season (or less than 20% of games before X date or whatever the rule is), at what point does a school/player put in for the redshirt? Is it anytime, or do we have to know now?
Normal season guidelines:
The rule is that if you play a game, you an not eligible to redshirt. So anyone playing in basketball games right now, they are not redshirt candidates.
The percentage rule only comes into play with a medical hardship waiver -- player gets injured, if he hasn't played in 30% of team contests and did not appear in a game after the half-way point of the season, a team can apply for that hardship waiver, but that is the only time that rule applies.
So if a school intends for a player to redshirt, they announce that intention (at least to the player) before the season starts to set the expectations up-front. We often notice it when you see a blowout and your coach emptying the bench but Player X isn't playing while your walk-on is. It's often not too long after that the whispers come out that Player X is redshirting.
Now if a coach decides they don't want to redshirt the player anymore, they can reverse course at any time. The player is not locked into the redshirt, but the second he steps on the court, he now has lost his redshirt ability.
Now as was stated above, this year is a free redshirt year to all, so unless you are afraid that the player's minds are that fragile that they can't handle the truth, you tell them they are going to "redshirt" so they don't expect to play even 20 seconds.