• movielover
    533
    "NCAA changes redshirt and transfer rules for college football players. ... Schools will no longer be able to block players who want to transfer, and redshirt players can now appear in up to four games in a season without losing a year of eligibility."
  • movielover
    533
    SB Nation: 6 ways the NCAA’s new redshirts rule will make college football a little more fun

    The young guys can get on the field early in low-risk situations. Everyone wins.

    https://www.sbnation.com/college-football/2018/6/15/17464576/ncaa-redshirts-rule

    So maybe we see true freshmen earlier.
  • Riveraggie
    248
    Allowing redshirts to play will be a bigger factor in FCS than FBS due to their smaller rosters and number of scholarships. Law of diminishing returns would indicate that adding more depth will help a team with 60 scholarships more than one with 80
  • AggieFinn
    496
    Very cool change. Interesting to see how it's played across the board, but I imagine it was created to deal with contingency events when somebody goes down.
  • movielover
    533
    Definitely gives coaches more flexibility. Injuries, or a blowout ... give some young players PT. Interesting idea that it may reduce transfers (SB Nation). Like giving them 4 1/2 years.
  • Riveraggie
    248
    The unanticipated history at Davis seems to be that we have more of our talented players transferring to FBS schools than transfer down to us, The transfer rule might make that worse. We’ve had players on scholarship leave us to walk on at UCLA and Arizona State. Defensive lineman Jordan Hoyt just earned a full scholarship at ASU.
  • Riveraggie
    248
    I don’t think the redshirt rule is for flexibility although it provides that. The motivation for the two rules is probably to foster parity by allowing transfers from overstocked schools to less loaded rosters. The less loaded rosters will also get more games out of the players they have. Hopefully the big name schools will not attract tranfers in a Golden State Warriors manner. Will be good if players transfer to where they can get playing time and not good if they transfer to where they can be a backup on a big name school. Wouldn’t surprise me if they cut roster size down the road. They effectively made rosters bigger due to longer eligibility.
  • movielover
    533
    Wasn't a bunch of that the Gould years?

    Now we have Keelan, who today they said could have gone in the 3rd round in the NFL Draft, staying an extra year! Winning & good vibes.

    (Sac TV interview.)
  • Riveraggie
    248
    We lost a linebacker or defensive lineman to UCLA the year after the win over Stanford. I guess he felt he was as good as those guys and left. He played some at UCLA
  • movielover
    533
    The UCLA HC says Josh Kelly will get significant PT this year.
  • Riveraggie
    248
    Kelly and Hoyt, two players who had scholarships here plus guarantee playing time left to walk on at a Pac12 school. Plus the guy from 2006 whose name escapes me.
    Make it so they don’t have to sit out and we might lose more, Not a bad thing if there is a two way flow but there hasn’t been.
  • BlueGoldAg
    1.2k
    Ex-Aggie RB Joshua Kelley had 6 carries for 20 yards = 3.3 yards/attempt playing for UCLA against Cincinnati.

    Our freshman RB Ulonzo Gilliam had 23 carries for 132 yards = 5.7 yards/attempt plus 8 catches for an additional 53 yards = 185 yards total against San Jose State.

    Kelley might have had more fun playing for the Ags...
  • Riveraggie
    248
    crazy move. Had to go a year without scholarship, that has to be costly. Wish him well, now will some UCLA player please transfer here?
  • BlueGoldAg
    1.2k
    We'll take a UCLA transfer if they're good enough to play for us... :cool:
  • Riveraggie
    248
    yep, be open minded about it.
    When they lose to teams like Cincinnati you see the need for selectivity,
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