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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

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

The UCLA HC says Josh Kelly will get significant PT this year.

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.

Kelley going start at UCLA. Painful to read

https://www.dailynews.com/2018/08/18/joshua-kelley-makes-an-impression-with-ucla-football/

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...

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?

We'll take a UCLA transfer if they're good enough to play for us... :cool:

yep, be open minded about it.
When they lose to teams like Cincinnati you see the need for selectivity,