Medical Redshirts?

Hoffie7

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What's protocol on eligibility of medical redshirts for those injured if they don't play another down this year?
I assume Byerly can't claim a medical redshirt bc he was a transfer.
 

GruffyMcGuiness

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Byerly is supposed to return this year, right? He wouldn't be eligible anyway. If he doesn't, he got hurt in the second game so he would likely be able to get a MRS
 

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What's protocol on eligibility of medical redshirts for those injured if they don't play another down this year?
I assume Byerly can't claim a medical redshirt bc he was a transfer.
Not technically a redshirt; actually falls under hardship waivers.

There was a long discussion of this, interestingly enough in a thread about Byerly, just recently.

See this post by gtzulu from the NCAA bylaws section on hardship waivers: http://www.stingtalk.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1678797&postcount=199. I also thought some input from hiveredtech was useful for my understanding.

A student-athlete may be granted an additional year of competition by the conference or the Committee on Student-Athlete Reinstatement for reasons of "hardship." Hardship is defined as an incapacity resulting from an injury or illness that has occurred under all of the following conditions: (Revised: 1/10/92 effective 8/1/92, 1/14/97, 8/1/97, 4/26/01 effective 8/1/01, 11/1/01, 4/3/02, 8/8/02, 3/10/04, 5/11/05, 9/18/07, 11/1/07 effective 8/1/08, 4/24/08, 7/31/14)
(a) The incapacitating injury or illness occurs in one of the four seasons of intercollegiate competition at any two-year or four-year collegiate institutions or occurs after the first day of classes in the student-athlete's senior year in high school;
(b) The injury or illness occurs prior to the first competition of the second half of the playing season that concludes with the NCAA championship in that sport (see Bylaw 12.8.4.3.4) and results in incapacity to compete for the remainder of that playing season;
(c) In team sports, the injury or illness occurs when the student-athlete has not participated in more than three contests or dates of competition (whichever is applicable to that sport) or 30 percent (whichever number is greater) of the institution's scheduled or completed contests or dates of competition in his or her sport. Only scheduled or completed competition against outside participants during the playing season that concludes with the NCAA championship, or, if so designated, during the official NCAA championship playing season in that sport (e.g., spring baseball, fall soccer), shall be countable under this limitation in calculating both the number of contests or dates of competition in which the student-athlete has participated and the number of scheduled or completed contests or dates of competition during that season in the sport. Dates of competition that are exempted (e.g., alumni contests, foreign team in the United States) from the maximum permissible number of contests or dates of competition shall count toward the number of contests or dates in which the student-athlete has participated and the number of scheduled or completed contests or dates of competition in the season, except for scrimmages and exhibition contests that are specifically identified as such in the sport's Bylaw 17 playing and practice season regulations. Scrimmages and exhibition contests that are not exempted from the maximum permissible number of contests or dates of competition may be excluded from the calculation only if they are identified as such in the sport's Bylaw 17 playing and practice season regulations; and
(d) In individual sports, the injury or illness occurs when the student-athlete has not participated in more than three dates of competition or 30 percent (whichever number is greater) of the maximum permissible number of dates of competition as set forth in Bylaw 17 plus one date for a conference championship (e.g., gymnastics: 13+1=14, wrestling: 16+1=17), regardless of whether the team participates in the conference championship, provided the institution is a member of a conference and the conference holds a championship event in the applicable sport. Dates of competition that are exempted per Bylaw 17 (e.g., alumni contests, foreign team in the United States) from the maximum permissible number of dates of competition do not count toward the number of dates in which the student-athlete has participated.
 

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I think Byerly is still eligible and hearsay says he's considering it. It seems unlikely he's returning this year.
 

gctechfan

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I was told by someone close to him that he is not going to return this year. And don't know if he'll want to stick around for another year.
 

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Medical hardship is different than a redshirt. Anyone who has lost a season to injury and played less than 30% of said season is eligible for a medical hardship, as I understand it.
 

bravejason

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I was told by someone close to him that he is not going to return this year. And don't know if he'll want to stick around for another year.
On the radio show yesterday CPJ indicated that Byerly was leaning towards not returning this year.
 

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Having Byerly back next year would be tremendous. We need to use him as a short yardage QB, and he's a pretty solid option as a backup to keep JT fresh or if something bad happens. The idea of relying on a freshman (RS or no) to run our offense is pretty scary.
 

Lee34102

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Having Byerly back next year would be tremendous. We need to use him as a short yardage QB, and he's a pretty solid option as a backup to keep JT fresh or if something bad happens. The idea of relying on a freshman (RS or no) to run our offense is pretty scary.
True That ... :biggthumpup:
 

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Having Byerly back next year would be tremendous. We need to use him as a short yardage QB, and he's a pretty solid option as a backup to keep JT fresh or if something bad happens. The idea of relying on a freshman (RS or no) to run our offense is pretty scary.
Having an extra scholarship would also be nice. What do we need more: a goal-line QB or a defensive lineman?

We have Christian Campbell, Taquon Marshall, Matthew Jordan as QBs next year.
 

gt2690b

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Having an extra scholarship would also be nice. What do we need more: a goal-line QB or a defensive lineman?

We have Christian Campbell, Taquon Marshall, Matthew Jordan as QBs next year.
Speaking of dl... What happened to whitehead
 
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