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Big Ten football coaches had universal praise for a new NCAA eligibility rule during the conference’s media days last week in Chicago. Gophers coach P.J. Fleck already has plans to use the relaxed rules on redshirt seasons.
“With as young a football team as we are, this is like a blessing that was just thrown to the University of Minnesota, ‘Here, we’re going to help you out this year,’ ” Fleck said Monday from the Chicago Marriott Downtown hotel.
“Brilliant. Love it. Greatest rule the NCAA has every put in in the last 20 years,” Fleck said.
Previously, players would burn a redshirt year by playing in one game, although the NCAA often granted dispensation for season-ending injuries known as a “medical redshirt.”
Minnesota has a total of nine seniors on offense and defense, with two more expected to play on special teams. This doesn’t count running back Shannon Brooks, who in March was ruled out for the season with a leg injury. But as Fleck teased in Chicago, the senior could return under this new rule sometime this fall and still be able to use his final year of eligibility in 2019.
How college football coaches implement the new rule will be an interesting storyline throughout the 2018 season. It could be a nonconference tryout; it could be the late addition of promising player down the stretch. In either case, there is no penalty.
“We are going to have to use it very creatively,” Fleck said. “I don’t know how yet. We have had multiple meetings on how we are going to do it. You just can’t really design exactly how you are going to do it until you start the season, with what type of issues, problems come up.”
https://www.twincities.com/2018/07/...ees-four-game-eligibility-rule-as-a-blessing/
Go Gophers!!
Big Ten football coaches had universal praise for a new NCAA eligibility rule during the conference’s media days last week in Chicago. Gophers coach P.J. Fleck already has plans to use the relaxed rules on redshirt seasons.
“With as young a football team as we are, this is like a blessing that was just thrown to the University of Minnesota, ‘Here, we’re going to help you out this year,’ ” Fleck said Monday from the Chicago Marriott Downtown hotel.
“Brilliant. Love it. Greatest rule the NCAA has every put in in the last 20 years,” Fleck said.
Previously, players would burn a redshirt year by playing in one game, although the NCAA often granted dispensation for season-ending injuries known as a “medical redshirt.”
Minnesota has a total of nine seniors on offense and defense, with two more expected to play on special teams. This doesn’t count running back Shannon Brooks, who in March was ruled out for the season with a leg injury. But as Fleck teased in Chicago, the senior could return under this new rule sometime this fall and still be able to use his final year of eligibility in 2019.
How college football coaches implement the new rule will be an interesting storyline throughout the 2018 season. It could be a nonconference tryout; it could be the late addition of promising player down the stretch. In either case, there is no penalty.
“We are going to have to use it very creatively,” Fleck said. “I don’t know how yet. We have had multiple meetings on how we are going to do it. You just can’t really design exactly how you are going to do it until you start the season, with what type of issues, problems come up.”
https://www.twincities.com/2018/07/...ees-four-game-eligibility-rule-as-a-blessing/
Go Gophers!!