Redshirt question

[statefan]

Isn't the date fast approaching by which medical redshirts must be declared? Is there any speculation that Lady Dane freshman, Lyndsay Clark, who has not been in uniform yet will be redshirted? Just curious.

[Patch]

I believe the date is Dec. 28th for the men that may due to # of games? So I would imagine it would be about the same for the gals. They could have applied for a redshirt already and just not publicized it yet.

[DaneFan2k3]

I think it's percentage of the games your team plays, which would make the date flexible depending on the team (i.e. preseason tournaments if you advanced you'd have less time to declare).

[Dane96]

D2k and Patch are both correct. It is Dec. 28th or a pct of your teams games...whichever comes first.

[DaneFan2k3]

There is no hard and fast date to apply for a redshirt, though.

 

For instance, if you went down early in the year, didn't apply for the 'shirt, but were eligible (thinking you could come back later in the year), it ends up that you can't come back medically later (when you thought you could), then you can still apply toward the end of the year.

 

Here is the language:

 

Medical Hardship: A student-athlete may begranted an additional year of competition bythe conference for reason of "hardship."Hardship is defined as incapacity resultingfrom an injury or illness that has occurredunder all of the following conditions:

 

1. The incapacitating injury or illness occursin one of the four seasons of intercollegiate competition at any two-year or four-year collegiate institutions;

 

and

 

2. The injury or illness occurs prior to thecompletion of the first half of the playingseason that concludes with the NCAAchampionship in that sport;

 

and

 

3. The injury or illness occurs when thestudent-athlete has not participated in more than two contests or dates ofcompetition or 20 percent (whichever isgreater) of the institution's completedcontests or dates of competition.

 

So only the injury has to occur before the halfway point of the season; the application can come at any time, allowing the player to attempt to rehabilitate before applying.

Edited December 21, 2003 by DaneFan2k3

[Patch]

The Injury must come...

 

(#2) before the season mid point and...

 

(#3) the athlete has not appeared in 20% of the scheduled contests.

 

That's how you figure the date for each school.

[DaneFan2k3]

Right. But it's not a hard-and-fast date for each school. Also, there is no application deadline. I think that was the question, when would he have to declare.

 

Hughes isn't technically injured, so a medical redshirt is probably out of the question anyhow. But even if he was, he would meet both criteria and could wait all year to apply (til the end of the season anyhow).