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[QUOTE="tkaes, post: 4390206, member: 7514"]
100%.  It seems that media play-by-play guys and analysts believe they are somehow more intelligent, precise, and a host of other adjectives if they use more unnecessary words.  Basketball coaches who couldn't keep winning and are now employed by ESPN and the like are some of the worst.  Expressions like "score the basketball" or "rebound the basketball"  drive me nuts.  Seth Greenberg and Carolyn Peck are among the worst.  Why can't they just say score and rebound?

Back to the original point about "true freshman".  There was a time in football, perhaps 10-15 years ago when almost all freshman were redshirted.  Back then it was appropriate to distinguish a true freshman from a redshirt.  Not any more as most recruits especially the top ones at major programs want and expect to play right away.  They want sign the LOI with a schedule that even hints at redshirting them.

Football is really the only sport where redshirting was a major thing.  Sure, redshirting does occur in all the other sports except maybe for women's basketball.  Absent injury, redshirting is [U]virtually[/U] non-existent in women's basketball.  There are a couple of women's NCAA basketball announcers who use the term true freshman aggravatingly 100% of the time when they shouldn't, IMHO.
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