S. Carolina & Colorado Players Gain Medical Redshirts

FirefightnRick · April 14, 2009

Just wanted to clear something up from last November during the debate on the Medical Redshirt eligibility of Joseph Miller, who was injured in the FOURth game of the season in '08.

Medical redshirt allows linebacker to step into leadership role in the middle

Paulk, who started 22 of 25 games his first two seasons with the USC football team, injured his knee FOUR games into the 2008 season.

Same for Colorado's OL Ryan Miller, who was lost for the '08 season after going down with a leg injury in the FOURth game of the season.

The NCAA has already given Tuioti-Mariner and fellow offensive lineman Ryan Miller medical redshirt seasons for last year meaning they will enter the 2009 season with the same number of years of eligibility remaining as they had at the start of the 2008 campaign. Miller is a sophomore.

Rick

Edited April 14, 2009 by FirefightnRick

greenminer · April 14, 2009

How is this not favoritism?

The Muzzy bull continues.

Is there a line in the sand where this becomes illegal and someone can step in to investigate?

The Fake Lonnie Finch · April 14, 2009

Again, this is where an athletic department earns their stripes...or not. The departments at S. Carolina and CU obviously know what the NCAA expects when the paperwork is filed.

Again, and again, and again...the athletic department doesn't just arrange for travel and stand around grinning and being friendly at functions. You need an athletic department that, top to bottom, is competent. Sadly for our athletes, we don't have that.

Edited April 14, 2009 by The Fake Lonnie Finch

forevereagle · April 14, 2009

Again, this is where an athletic department earns their stripes...or not. The departments at S. Carolina and CU obviously know what the NCAA expects when the paperwork is filed.

What more should the paperwork have to say? He played X games and was unable to complete the season because of X injury. I don't know that you can lay all of this at the feet of the athletic department. It is not their fault that the NCAA plays favorties. And anyone who doesn't believe that they play favorites needs to wake up.

UNTLifer · April 15, 2009

Again, this is where an athletic department earns their stripes...or not. The departments at S. Carolina and CU obviously know what the NCAA expects when the paperwork is filed.
Again, and again, and again...the athletic department doesn't just arrange for travel and stand around grinning and being friendly at functions. You need an athletic department that, top to bottom, is competent. Sadly for our athletes, we don't have that.

Man, if you could coach and serve as our AD then all would be perfect.