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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 4815573, member: 9844"] I wonder if the team has potentially difficult decisions coming up related to Caroline and Ayanna. It is still early, but there is some chance that either player may miss most of the season, but be able to return late in the season and help some but still not be all the way back. So if they could return with a few games left, should they? Right now if they don't return they can extend their eligibility with a redshirt year. I don't remember for sure the cutoff, someone can help me with that, but I thought it was somewhere around 6 games. In both cases there could be long term concerns. Both could recover and be fine somewhere down the road, or their issues could be close to career ending. I say that with Ayanna just because whatever they did do doesn't seem to be working, and I believe Geno once made a comparison to Morgan Tuck's knee issues. With near and long term uncertainty that complicates the situation even more. If I thought Caroline and Ayanna had a good chance to return to what we hoped and expected for them, I might value redshirting and having them available for a full productive year vs. providing a little help for a few games at less than full strength this year. On the other hand those few games at the end might be the most important games of the season, so it could be a tough decision. I hope for the best for Caroline and Ayanna and this hypothetical scenario certainly may not develop, but if it did I think it would be a tough decision to make. [/QUOTE]

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