Medical Redshirt Requirements

[MililaniBuckeye]

There always seems to be confusion as to when a medical redshirt can be taken.

1. Can only be applied for after all other eligibility has been used.
2. In the season for which the medical redshirt is requested, the player:
(a) Must have played in 30% or less of games (rounded up)
(b) Must not have played in the second half of the season

Using our current 12-game season for example,
For requirement 2(a), 30% of 12 games is 3.6 games, which gets rounded up to four. So the player can participate in up to four games.
For requirement 2(b), the second half of the 12-game season starts at the seventh game, so he cannot participate in any games after the sixth game.

Say Johnny Utah takes a normal redshirt his freshman year, gets hurt in the sixth game of his redshirt-freshman year and that game was the fourth game in which he played and it was a 12-game season, and then plays in each game of his redshirt-sophomore, redshirt-junior, and fifth-year senior seasons. He has thus used up all his normal eligibility (five to play four). After his fifth-year senior season, he can request a medical reshirt based on injury he received during his redshirt-freshman year because in that year he played in only four games (meeting requirement 2(a)) and those four games were in the first half of the season (meeting requirement 2(b)).

 

[ScriptOhio]

Johnny Utah is THE MAN. I sure hope he gets the medical redshirt approved for next season.

 

[Abenaki]

Thanks! Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that those are the requirements to APPLY for a medical redshirt? Meaning, they can still be denied if they meet those stipulations?

 

[TheStoicPaisano]

This is from a CFT post on Jamoris Slaughter being denied a sixth year. According to the article, the original redshirt year has to be as a result of injury, as well as a second year. Thus, if (for example) Elfein missed one of his four future years, OSU would have to show that his 2012 redshirt was ALSO due to injury in order to get a sixth year.

This seems to be illogical, and puts all redshirted players at a disadvantage.

Jamoris Slaughter officially denied sixth year with Irish

 

[MililaniBuckeye]

This is from a CFT post on Jamoris Slaughter being denied a sixth year. According to the article, the original redshirt year has to be as a result of injury, as well as a second year. Thus, if (for example) Elfein missed one of his four future years, OSU would have to show that his 2012 redshirt was ALSO due to injury in order to get a sixth year.

This seems to be illogical, and puts all redshirted players at a disadvantage.

Jamoris Slaughter officially denied sixth year with Irish

The article has it wrong...there are other instances where the injury didn't occur in the original redshirt year.

 

[Oh8ch]

The article has it wrong...there are other instances where the injury didn't occur in the original redshirt year.

Agree. I have seen instances that worked either way - as seems proper IMO.

 

[TheStoicPaisano]

Thanks, guys.

I figured that was the case, but wasn't sure if there were recent rules passed.

Unlike the redshirt rule about playing in <30% of your games (where the letter of the law [get season back once eligibility is up] differs from reality [year is usually given back in that off-season]), I'd never seen anything approximating the ruling on Slaughter.

 

[ScarletCorvette]

I agree with your definition, and want to add my two cents. The other side of the story.

If a school wants to grant a medical redshirt -- not for the purpose of extending eligibility after injury prevented someone from playing most of a season, but for the purpose of proclaiming a player no longer healthy enough to play -- it appears the school can do that without any detailed guidelines.

So, a player who is given a medical redshirt for say, bad knees or too many concussions, is offered the chance to stay enrolled and have his education paid for, BUT he is no longer part of the team and the scholarship no longer counts against the institutions allotment.

However, if that player is released from his scholarship for medical reasons and finds another school who wishes to take a chance, he is allowed to do so.