Longtime football coach Todd Berry, who was most recently at Louisiana-Monroe, has spoken with enough college administrators and coaches to know that the new redshirt rule implemented last year has been a smashing success. If you were unaware, players can now redshirt after participating in up to four games in a season, a change the coaching community seriously supported for years. Before the rule’s adoption last June, everyone understood the positive impacts of such a dramatic change, for both player and coach: It gives freshmen key experience while not removing a complete year of eligibility, and for coaches, it relieves them from a late-season dilemma as depth thins: burn a kid’s redshirt to play him for only a few plays.
D'Eriq King's Unprecedented Decision Offers Unique Twist to Redshirt Rule
