In 2.0 redshirting a sophomore after starting him as a freshman was a strategy I used often but have yet to try it in 3.0. Has anyone had success in redshirting sophs in 3.0? I wound up with a position imbalance on my SF St team where I have 3 freshman bigs (and only 4 total). I can redshirt a freshman this year (leaving me with just 3 bigs in press in a rebuild of a season) or redshirt another player and hope to R/S a big next season (when he'd be a sophomore) to balance things out.

I’ve done it a few times actually.

https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/PlayerProfile/Stats.aspx?tid=13222&pid=4511873

He was on 20 minutes and a starting spot during his first season. No WE hit on the redshirt, but obviously in most cases you never know how the player will react.

Thanks, beachhouse. This is encouraging given he was the #92SF and you recruited him at D2.

Sometimes it works and sometimes not in my experience. Too unreliable to plan around.

I haven’t had any soph accept the redshirt to be honest. 3.0...

I do it a pretty good amount I feel like.

Posted by zorzii on 6/7/2020 3:13:00 PM (view original):
I haven’t had any soph accept the redshirt to be honest. 3.0...

I've had the same experience.

I've ONLY redshirted Sophs. I don't redshirt often. Because with press I like to run 12 deep. And I offer promises to 99% of players I sign. Literally. So I never have the opportunity to redshirt freshman.

But when i play M2M, I redshirt a player the following season. But as someone else stated, it's not a certainty they will accept it. The way it works for me is if I have a 3man class, chances are at least ONE of them will.

Posted by topdogggbm on 6/7/2020 8:29:00 PM (view original):
I've ONLY redshirted Sophs. I don't redshirt often. Because with press I like to run 12 deep. And I offer promises to 99% of players I sign. Literally. So I never have the opportunity to redshirt freshman.

But when i play M2M, I redshirt a player the following season. But as someone else stated, it's not a certainty they will accept it. The way it works for me is if I have a 3man class, chances are at least ONE of them will.

I'm with you in that I highly prefer to run 12 deep with press. But I wound up bringing in 6 freshman this off-season and 3 of them were bigs. I'd like to redshirt someone in hopes of breaking up the 6-man class a bit and, hopefully, breaking up the 3-bigs the same year. I have 2 bigs that may take it as sophs...fingers crossed I get lucky.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I remember trying to red shirt sophs really early in 3.0 and was something like 0-3 (I know, small sample size), haven't tried it since, and was just wondering if anything had changed.

Posted by darnoc29099 on 6/7/2020 9:46:00 PM (view original):

Posted by topdogggbm on 6/7/2020 8:29:00 PM (view original):
I've ONLY redshirted Sophs. I don't redshirt often. Because with press I like to run 12 deep. And I offer promises to 99% of players I sign. Literally. So I never have the opportunity to redshirt freshman.

But when i play M2M, I redshirt a player the following season. But as someone else stated, it's not a certainty they will accept it. The way it works for me is if I have a 3man class, chances are at least ONE of them will.

I'm with you in that I highly prefer to run 12 deep with press. But I wound up bringing in 6 freshman this off-season and 3 of them were bigs. I'd like to redshirt someone in hopes of breaking up the 6-man class a bit and, hopefully, breaking up the 3-bigs the same year. I have 2 bigs that may take it as sophs...fingers crossed I get lucky.

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I remember trying to red shirt sophs really early in 3.0 and was something like 0-3 (I know, small sample size), haven't tried it since, and was just wondering if anything had changed.

My man. I could've wrote that word for word. I take all the same steps. I HATE 3 bigs in a class. Only thing that I could say is different..... is I'd never have a 6 man class. I don't like that either. But I see you're trying to break that up. We should talk more often

Posted by marl_karx on 6/7/2020 1:08:00 PM (view original):
Sometimes it works and sometimes not in my experience. Too unreliable to plan around.

This is my experience. I get it to work sometimes but less than half the time.

i have a guy now on my Chico team right now who is a rs soon. I can’t post the link for you from my phone.

Here is a (terrible for a Big 6!) Soph on my Crum team that I redshirted after reading this. Just to try it. And it's followed up by 3 Soph redshirt examples that I just quickly searched. I have a lot more tho

https://imgur.com/a/X8Nc6fO

i totally agree, 3 big classes are an abomination onto (the HD) god (s). i doubt i'd take a drop to 1 WE to break up the 3 big class, but i would wreck a whole season to break it up, and i'd also take a drop to half WE to break it up.

Re-visiting this....I attempted to redshirt one of my 3 freshman bigs last season and he was not having it (large WE drop). I put the redshirt on him as a sophomore to see what the reaction would be and he was ok with it. Can't say I've seen this before-a FR rejecting a R/S but being ok with it as a sophomore.

It's possible, At Texas in Wooden, I successfully redshirted a junior who was on the big board at the time. We are about 15 games in and he's fallen off the big board, but thankfully accepted the redshirt without any issues.