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New Redshirt Rule Coming -- Wow!

Discussion in 'RayGator's Swamp Gas' started by ETGator, Jan 14, 2026.

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  1. Jan 14, 2026 #21
    your_perfect_enemy

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    I wouldn’t be opposed to this as long as they’re working toward a more advanced degree no underwater basket weaving
     
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  2. Jan 14, 2026 #22
    ETGator

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    Lawsuit not yet filed, right?

    The NCAA has denied Ole Miss QB Trinidad Chambliss' eligibility waiver. Rebels plan to appeal

    If Chambliss has provided insufficient medical records, as I read but don't know to be true, it seems the easiest thing would have been to provide the records . . . if they exist. It sounds like they don't.

    After taking a redshirt his first season at Ferris State in 2021-22, Chambliss was held out in his second season for medical reasons. He played two more seasons at the Division II school, leading the Bulldogs to a national championship before transferring to Ole Miss before the start of this season. Ole Miss filed the waiver request with the NCAA in November.

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    The NCAA said in its denial statement that approval of such waivers requires schools to submit medical documentation from a treating physician at the time of a student’s incapacitating injury or illness.

    “The documents provided by Ole Miss and the student’s prior school include a physician’s note from a December 2022 visit, which stated the student-athlete was ‘doing very well’ since he was seen in August 2022," the NCAA said. "Additionally, the student-athlete’s prior school indicated it had no documentation on medical treatment, injury reports or medical conditions involving the student-athlete during that time frame and cited ‘developmental needs and our team’s competitive circumstances’ as its reason the student-athlete did not play in the 2022-23 season.”

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    “To receive a clock extension, a student-athlete must have been denied two seasons of competition for reasons beyond the student’s or school’s control, and a ‘redshirt’ year can be used only once,” the statement reads. “One of the rules being cited publicly (Bylaw 12.6.4.2.2) is not the correct rule for the type of waiver requested by the school.”

    (Underline added).
     
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  3. Jan 14, 2026 #23
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    Didn't Pavia (Vandy QB1) play for a Division II and get extra year/s to play in the FBS? If he didn't even play then what is up with the NCAA's demand for medical records to prove he was unable to play?
     
  4. Jan 14, 2026 #24
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    That doesn’t really bother me too much. Imagine you have a QB that balls out but isn’t really going to be an ideal QB……they could dominate the college world.
     
  5. Jan 14, 2026 #25
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    Just more corruption. Just make some enforceable rules and enforce them.
     
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  6. Jan 14, 2026 #26
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    Maybe Tebow could have gotten a shot at Burrow.
     
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  7. Jan 14, 2026 #27
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    I don’t believe it’s filed but Honestly all this stuff is just tiresome and I haven’t followed too much
     
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  8. Jan 15, 2026 #28
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    Um, don't you mean this?

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  9. Jan 15, 2026 #29
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    If I may assist, what we are attempting to do is make sense of nonsense. There plainly is none. We are attempting to make a horse (the college sports of our memory) into an orangutan (minor league professional sports) without us realizing it. And so, we now have a horse who hangs out and swings in trees and eats bananas.

    Yay!
     
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  10. Jan 15, 2026 #30
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    So if Im reading this new rule correctly I guess they just got Andre Debose another year for us.
     
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  11. Jan 15, 2026 #31
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    So, play a freshman for 9 games and still have 4 full seasons?
     
  12. Jan 15, 2026 #32
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    The way things are going, somehow Tebow and Burrow will get back another year of eligibility. We might see that game in 2027, assuming they don’t transfer through the portal.
     
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  13. Jan 15, 2026 #33
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    The way I understand it, he used his redshirt year the first year. The second year he couldn't make the field and is now trying to say he was medically prohibited but the NCAA wants some inconvenient, pesky records . . . you know, in case a player not named Chambliss wants to re-write history to get an extra year. Only there are no records (so far) which tends to support the conclusion it's BS. Maybe Ole Miss will suddenly discover records hidden in the bottom drawer of Lane Kiffin's old desk.
     
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  14. Jan 15, 2026 #34
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    Maybe Phillip Rivers will come back for one more year
     
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  15. Jan 15, 2026 #35
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    They will schedule 3 easy games to start the season as well
     
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    Soon to be 24 players over the age of 47?
     
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  17. Jan 15, 2026 #37
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    What's the point with the nine-game stuff? It doesn't even count post-season, so we're only making them sit for three games. Just give them a fifth year and forget the game counting nonsense. One less thing to manage. Heck, they're pro athletes now anyway; give them 50 years at this point and let natural selection cull them.
     
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  18. Jan 15, 2026 #38
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    I'm one that has always thought college football was one of the most corrupt sports on the planet. But I did like the fact that they were mostly 18 to 22-year-olds as in children becoming men before they went to the NFL or a real job. Having guys that are at the age of an NFL prime player playing against kids that just graduated from high school is not something I like for the sport. Four years straight out of high school. You get a couple years to develop physically and get on the field and two years to prove you're a great player. I don't like professional age athletes playing against children.
     
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  19. Jan 15, 2026 #39
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    Said it a couple years ago, first they get paid and the next thing to come is unlimited eligibility. The bigger problem in all this is that there will be fewer high school players getting the opportunity for an education and chance for development.
     
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  20. Jan 15, 2026 #40
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    Agreed. 9 games is so random and arbitrary. I get that it’s not double digits, but why? Who cares?
     
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