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What is dis Gahbage (I love seahorses)?

They were all human-recruited.

Looks like Brandon Leigh was a juco or transfer who was then redshirted. Feature or bug? I'm guessing bug.

He was a 3-year JUCO who was recruited as a sophomore while the other 6 guys were freshmen.  He was then redshirted into the big class.  This is the one way you can create a human-coached class bigger than 6 guys.  You can actually RS a soph with a 6-man freshman class, RS a junior the next year, and a senior the following season and hypothetically generate a 9-man class.  Not sure why you'd want to do that, but it's possible.

This guy loses a scholarships worth of money when they graduate...not a great idea.

Posted by dahsdebater on 9/5/2012 8:26:00 PM (view original):
He was a 3-year JUCO who was recruited as a sophomore while the other 6 guys were freshmen.  He was then redshirted into the big class.  This is the one way you can create a human-coached class bigger than 6 guys.  You can actually RS a soph with a 6-man freshman class, RS a junior the next year, and a senior the following season and hypothetically generate a 9-man class.  Not sure why you'd want to do that, but it's possible.

So, feature? I thought there were supposed to be zero ways.

This has always been possible, just very rarely done.  In fact, when the six class limit was first announced, a coach almost immediately posted how to get around those constraints.  This is old news.

Didn't know. Thanks.

Posted by llamanunts on 9/5/2012 9:16:00 PM (view original):

Posted by dahsdebater on 9/5/2012 8:26:00 PM (view original):
He was a 3-year JUCO who was recruited as a sophomore while the other 6 guys were freshmen.  He was then redshirted into the big class.  This is the one way you can create a human-coached class bigger than 6 guys.  You can actually RS a soph with a 6-man freshman class, RS a junior the next year, and a senior the following season and hypothetically generate a 9-man class.  Not sure why you'd want to do that, but it's possible.

So, feature? I thought there were supposed to be zero ways.

Keep in mind that, especially now, successfully redshirting a non freshman is likely pretty hard. Anyone have experience trying since the redshirt adjustments were made?

I've actually found that redshirting a non freshman is actually much easier now than it was in the past, sophomores especially.

How is it hard?  Redshirting sophs is easy, as emy already said (my guess is it's now effective upwards of 40% of the time if they aren't great sophs), and by junior and senior years the guys may be good enough you don't care if their WE bottoms out.  If your goal is just to make a 9-man uber-class there's nothing at all hard about it.

Ah. Hadn't tried redshirting them anytime recently. Actually might on one team now ...

I redshirted a junior recently. He wasn't happy and dropped like 50 points, but since he started in the 80s and was mostly tapped out anyway (and still had 30 something) I left it on since it was more about balancing classes than player development anyway...

Have tout about redshirting a senior ... Once.