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Message: [QUOTE="ConwayGmck, post: 4509541, member: 10442"] If I understand this - and I am referring more to CFB since they make use of red-shirts all the time, and CBB rarely does - but each student-athlete gets 5 years to play 4. The 5th year is for a typical red-shirt, which may also be called an academic red-shirt. These are used for the student-athlete to either take a year off of playing to get more established with their academic work, or also to develop themselves physically and mature physically for collegiate level sports. It usually has little to do with injury/illness. With medical red-shirts, they do not apply for those until the end of their regular 4-year playing eligibility expires, and are at that time given an extra year of playing eligibility, because it is determined that such an injury/illness essentially stole them of a year of playing eligibility. With CFB, I've known of many instances where a CFB player and his team applied for a medical waiver from the NCAA for an extra year of playing eligibility, that's reported at the end of their regular playing career. There is no official thing as a "medical red-shirt" - it's just a red-shirt due to medical reasons that the player's team gives him/her. The time for the NCAA to become involved is at the end of the student-athlete's regular playing eligibility, where they review the circumstances and make a decision. In the case of the former, more typical red-shirt, programs will call student-athletes "red-shirt freshman, red-shirt sophomore, etc." because AT THAT TIME it's official and understood that they have red-shirted. They usually do NOT do that for medical red-shirts, because even though the circumstances look like a cinch-pipe lock to get an extra red-shirt year, it's still not official from the NCAA. So in the case of a student-athlete transferring from the school where she suffered the injury/illness, to another school where she's now a student-athlete at, it's a bit confusing. Also, with the covid pandemic work-arounds where players have gotten immediate eligibility to play, etc. muddies the water even more. But again, Reese's experience while at MD doesn't look like it fits in with the NCAA requirements for such a medical red-shirt, and would most likely be rejected by the NCAA if any school applied for it for Angel. She played an entire half of a season her freshman year, and was available for MD towards the end of that season when they were contending for conference and national championships, and to give her an extra full year of eligibility for that would seem unfair.... [/QUOTE]

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