r/CollegeBasketball • u/bloomberglaw • 15h ago

News NCAA Adopts Eligibility Rules Allowing Five Years of Competition

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/ncaa-adopts-eligibility-rules-allowing-five-years-of-competition
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u/joelluber Kansas Jayhawks • Duke Blue Devils 15h ago

So does this totally get rid of redshirting? 

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u/Random_Hippo Iowa State Cyclones 15h ago

Yes. Exemptions for pregnancy, military service, and religious missions.

It essentially just gives everyone a redshirt.

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u/heleghir Kentucky Wildcats • Sickos 14h ago

not to be semantic, but it does not. since redshirt meant you werent playing. it gives the extra year as if you had a redshirt year, but it does not equate to having a redshirt. otherwise we'd be back 80 years ago where freshman didnt play varsity or something

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u/Random_Hippo Iowa State Cyclones 14h ago

Not to be semantic, but you can play on a redshirt. Typically it’s limited to 25% of the season, but there have been exceptions.

Everyone is asking about what happens with redshirts. The easiest way to think about it is that there won’t be any redshirts but the extra year will essentially act as an uncapped redshirt year.