5 years of eligibility as the standard?

[exhawg]

Well, I was making a couple of assumptions. 1) the redshirt system would still be in place, thus creating a 6-year plan for a lot players.

I've never heard anything about a standard 6th year. Everything that I've heard was 5 years to play 5 which isn't going to do much to your current numbers.
I played in the MAC and we only had 3-4 guys in my class that could have come back for a 5th year of playing. We had a much larger number of guys that would have seen some PT their freshman year if it wouldn't have been for burning their redshirt.

 

[AJHawkfan]

I was trying to imply that as well... By irrelevant, I meant irrelevant as to whether its 5 more or 21 more in that its going to have impact based on the factors you just described thus increasing the cost of smaller (or less affluent or whatever) schools to compete in I-A... I see where it was unclear, sorry.

No problem. Glad we agree then.

I've never heard anything about a standard 6th year. Everything that I've heard was 5 years to play 5 which isn't going to do much to your current numbers.
I played in the MAC and we only had 3-4 guys in my class that could have come back for a 5th year of playing. We had a much larger number of guys that would have seen some PT their freshman year if it wouldn't have been for burning their redshirt.

I would agree with you there; that eliminating the redshirt year would not change much in terms of numbers. Sounds like we're looking at it from 2 different angles; but we're pretty much under the same interpretation though.