I don’t know, the Enterprise makes it sound like they need to be at 4 games or less (unless the appeal is won) regardless of the number of playoff games in which we participate.
Are you suggesting we want a non-seed to have a chance at playing 5 playoff games instead of a seed which limits us to 4? Teams that aren’t seeded rarely get even 3 games in the postseason. If we get a top 4 seed, which probably only happens if Montana loses either to Sac or MSU, the first 2 playoff games would be at UCDHS making 3 total additional contests not that unrealistic to expect.
According to the rule Medical respdshirts have to play in a maximum of 30% or less of contests rounded up to an integer.
Lets assume they have two playoff games
12 regular season games counting mercer:
14 *.30 = 4.2 rounding up = 5 games.
I think its too early to talk playoffs. Need 7 wins and we saw how explosive Northern Colorado is. If you want to talk playoffs after this game, that gets them to 6 needing at least 1 more but reasonable. A loss this week makes it much tougher.
AI from a google search
The NCAA rounds up any fractional portion of a contest when calculating the 30% rule for a medical redshirt. For example, if an athlete competed in 30% of a 31-game season, that would be 9.3 games, which rounds up to 10 games. Therefore, the athlete would not be eligible for a medical redshirt if they participated in more than 10 games.
The relevant NCAA form form 4 uses this same example but its in PDF and word documents i cant download on my old IPAD.