Posted by bpielcmc on 1/6/2023 12:23:00 PM (view original):
My guess would be for adjusting to your recruiting period 1. Say you redshirted a serviceable Juco JR, but won all your rolls and would rather have him as a SR next season.
pretty close to my situation now. I have a Sr on my Kansas team. He was a juco last season. And he’s extremely mediocre haha. He’s not terrible but not great. I’ve got lots of minutes promised to lots of freshman. So he wasn’t going to play anyways. I have multiple players on the Big Board (likely the most important part to this equation).
So when recruiting starts, I don’t have a lot of cash with only two openings. If I lose my first roll for a stud, I’ll keep him redshirted and I’ll have him next season. (12 players now, losing my main roll would probably keep me at 11 players at best if I were to win a second roll - which would be my entire budget, and then say I lost two or three EEs, that could drop me all the way down to like 8 players going into next season).
If I win my first roll, I’d probably undo the redshirt. I’d want that second opening to try my luck with another roll for a better player. And then I’d just take the redshirt off and let the player finish the season. As an added bonus, this particular player accepted the redshirt with no WE drop. So having the redshirt on him holds his WE steady. If I used the same mindset with the plan, but was forced to slow play the redshirt, he’d be down to 1 WE by the end of the season regardless. So I got a lucky break this time.