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When the new NCAA football rule regarding redshirts went into effect this season — with players able to participate in up to four games without using a year of eligibility — coaches suddenly became jugglers. They had to figure out which players, usually true freshmen, to use for four games or fewer and which ones they’d need for more, if not the full season.
As the Gophers (4-5 overall, 1-5 Big Ten) begin the final one-fourth of the season with Saturday’s home game against Purdue (5-4, 4-2), coach P.J. Fleck is honing those juggling skills with a pair of true freshmen, Jamaal Teague and Brevyn Spann-Ford.
Teague, a 6-3, 305-pound defensive tackle from Chicago, has played in four games, mainly because of need. He received nonconference experience against New Mexico State and Miami (Ohio), sat for the first four Big Ten games before playing the past two because of starter O.J. Smith’s head injury. Teague is listed as a co-starter with junior Royal Silver on the depth chart released Tuesday.
“I’m probably going to have to break the [redshirt] year. That’s the reality of it,” Fleck said of Teague, who has four tackles, including two for loss and one sack. “He’s not ready to play, but he’s going to play. … He does a lot of things that we don’t have right now.”
Fleck said he met with Teague on Tuesday morning to discuss the situation.
“First, I ask, ‘Is it OK if I do this?’ ” Fleck said. “He’s like, ‘Anything I can do for the team, Coach.’ ”
Teague would become the 11th Gophers true freshman this year to play in five games or more.
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-...s-redshirt-plans-don-t-always-last/499895981/
Go Gophers!!
When the new NCAA football rule regarding redshirts went into effect this season — with players able to participate in up to four games without using a year of eligibility — coaches suddenly became jugglers. They had to figure out which players, usually true freshmen, to use for four games or fewer and which ones they’d need for more, if not the full season.
As the Gophers (4-5 overall, 1-5 Big Ten) begin the final one-fourth of the season with Saturday’s home game against Purdue (5-4, 4-2), coach P.J. Fleck is honing those juggling skills with a pair of true freshmen, Jamaal Teague and Brevyn Spann-Ford.
Teague, a 6-3, 305-pound defensive tackle from Chicago, has played in four games, mainly because of need. He received nonconference experience against New Mexico State and Miami (Ohio), sat for the first four Big Ten games before playing the past two because of starter O.J. Smith’s head injury. Teague is listed as a co-starter with junior Royal Silver on the depth chart released Tuesday.
“I’m probably going to have to break the [redshirt] year. That’s the reality of it,” Fleck said of Teague, who has four tackles, including two for loss and one sack. “He’s not ready to play, but he’s going to play. … He does a lot of things that we don’t have right now.”
Fleck said he met with Teague on Tuesday morning to discuss the situation.
“First, I ask, ‘Is it OK if I do this?’ ” Fleck said. “He’s like, ‘Anything I can do for the team, Coach.’ ”
Teague would become the 11th Gophers true freshman this year to play in five games or more.
http://www.startribune.com/gophers-...s-redshirt-plans-don-t-always-last/499895981/
Go Gophers!!