AFCA Proposed Changes to Redshirting, Recruiting & Staff Size

[BoilerInChiTown]

The following is the summary of the propose changes, which I think are all positives from what I could tell for college football as a whole.

Redshirting:

• Maintaining the five-for-four model — a player has five years to complete his four seasons of on-field eligibility — but with a twist: A student-athlete would be able to take a redshirt season in any year in which he participates in four or fewer games. This would eliminate current medical redshirt requirement, which demands that a player suffer his injury prior to the start of the second half of the season and that he have not competed in more than three games or 30% of the season.

Recruiting:

• Allowing high school prospects to sign national letters of intent on both that signing day and on an earlier date, held on the third Wednesday of December, which is currently reserved for junior-college prospects instead of the first Wednesday of February.

Staff Size:

• Adding a 10th full-time assistant coach.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...time-assistant-early-signing-period/96452766/

 

[ChuckJr]

All good for Purdue. Especially early signing. The issue is going to be, what happens if the recruit later wants out of the commitment. Does he lose a year.