Seble, I'd like to expand on your comment above. I am fairly new at this game with 10 years of real life experience so I am still trying to differentiate betweem the differences of this game and real life, so I can become a better player. I realize there have to be some differences. For example, scholoarships at the DIII level is the Only way this game can work and I absolutely love that. But obviously I would like as many things as possible to be as close as possible to real life. Along that line I have a few observations.
The first is an agreement with your statement above. Except for a very rare occassion in real life a player will never accept a redshirt during recruiting. They are normally not going to accept unless it is an opportunity to play at a higher level than they could otherwise. An example is a 3* player like the third Plumlee brother, playing at a 5* program like Duke.
However, after coming to school, seeing and playing against our roster and talent, sitting down and discussing how it benefitted the individual player and them thinking about it I was 5 for 5 in players excepting a redshirt year.
The chance of a player taking a redshirt were as follows: 1) Most likely - Frosh to Soph year, 2) Next likely - Entering frosh year. 3) Soph to Junior yr. 4) Least likely - Junior to Senior year. Usually only a low WE (Slow developer) with potential to improve.
When thinking about Redshirting, it brought up some areas in recruiting that I thought about, but instead of muddling up this thread I thought it miight be possible for me to start another thread entitled, "Recruiting thoughts for Seble." I woud appreciate it of Seble would take a look at it and provide some thoughts and insights that perhaps the coaches could comment on. Thanks.