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A couple notes. To get a hardship waiver for two years (that is a sixth year), you have to have lost two years due to injury. You can’t voluntarily redshirt one year and get a sixth year if you then subsequently lose a year due to injury.  Secondly, you have to request the hardship and the NCAA doesn’t always grant it.

We potentially will have this situation in our women’s basketball team, where Wilson (yeah, Russell’s little sister) has missed two years due to injury and may be requesting a sixth year.  Reading between the lines, it is not a forgone conclusion that it will be granted.

Lastly, in order to qualify as a medical redshirt, the physicians will have to attest that the player could not have returned to action during the year.  While there has always been some wiggle room around this, it’s not like a player can decide that they’ve already missed a bunch of games, so they might as well sit out the rest of the year to claim a medical redshirt.

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A couple notes. To get a hardship waiver for two years (that is a sixth year), you have to have lost two years due to injury. You can’t voluntarily redshirt one year and get a sixth year if you then subsequently lose a year due to injury.  Secondly, you have to request the hardship and the NCAA doesn’t always grant it.

We potentially will have this situation in our women’s basketball team, where Wilson (yeah, Russell’s little sister) has missed two years due to injury and may be requesting a sixth year.  Reading between the lines, it is not a forgone conclusion that it will be granted.

Lastly, in order to qualify as a medical redshirt, the physicians will have to attest that the player could not have returned to action during the year.  While there has always been some wiggle room around this, it’s not like a player can decide that they’ve already missed a bunch of games, so they might as well sit out the rest of the year to claim a medical redshirt.

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