Could redshirting be on the way out?
ESPN recently reported that NCAA President Myles Brand would not be opposed to having five years of eligibility for college football players and that it might be favorable if redshirting were eliminated.
The ESPN article said 80 percent of Division I athletes get redshirted, and it takes them about 4.7 years to graduate.
I favor the extra year of eligibility it if it means that more student athletes would graduate because of it. Football players should be students first and football players second, and too often the opposite happens. The overwhelming majority of college football players will not go on to a career in the NFL, so they should definitely concentrate on getting a degree to see them through the rest of their lives.
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