Front Office Football Central - College Football: 5 years Straight/No Redshirt* (*possible)

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=2890793

Quote:

OKLAHOMA CITY -- NCAA president Myles Brand said he isn't necessarily opposed to a recent proposal by the NCAA football issues committee that would extend player eligibility in the sport to five years.

Brand, speaking Friday at the Women's College World Series, even said the idea "might be favorable" if it included the elimination of the practice of redshirting.

Brand said that 80 percent of Division I football players are being redshirted and that it takes the average student about 4.7 years to graduate from college.

"I think if we do it right, to make sure student-athletes actually have educational activities throughout their five years, which approximates the actual practice, and we do away with medical redshirting [and] actual redshirting, I don't see anything wrong with that," Brand said.

Note: This is college Football only

I'm not sure about this rule, i mean god forbid someone annoying starts as a Fr and then i got to deal with him for 5 years

otherwise if 80% are being red-shirted (and wouldn't that help their transition to college more then non-red-shirt) then only about 20% would benefit from the rule (add any of the 80% that might otherwise play as Fr and significantly develop their footballing careers), and of the 20% only those that do not graduate and do not continue to play professional football, with-in a four year period, would be the only one's benefiting from the proposed rule

it's not a bad rule, but for the 1 in 10,000 chance that JJ Redick is reincarnated as a football player i'm luke warm against it