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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 3149558, member: 1526"] Historically the NCAA seems to treat these cases on an individual basis, without always applying the same rules for everybody. One really interesting decision was made regarding QB Case Keenum at Houston. He had a one year non-medical redshirt season, then played four seasons. As a redshirt senior, he was injured early in the season, maybe second game. If you're injured early enough without having played something like 30 percent of the games, you can apply for the waiver. He was granted a sixth year of eligibility, which is very hard to get when one of your seasons was a non-medical redshirt. Although Houston was in C-USA at the time, he had been a fairly high profile QB nationally, and had set a lot of records. That plus he was a poster boy for the quintessential college student-athlete, and a person of faith. That all seemed to play into the NCAA's decision to grant him the sixth year of eligibility. The point is the NCAA seems to decide these cases on a very individual basis. There's no way to know what influences their decisions for sure because they seem to look at a lot of factors. In Keenum's case, they seemed to value his personna and high profile as a college student-athlete. Whether it was particularly fair or not to grant him the exception is another matter when you compare his case to others that weren't granted that same privilege. [/QUOTE]