[Langdude]

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.
BC

That's what I've always thought. But it seems like players such as Peek and Hamilton redshirted their true frosh years for preparation and growth, not injury, as, until last year, was the custom for just about every true freshman at Stanford.

-m.

The counter argument is IBS, who did get a sixth year even though there was no known injury in at least one of his lost years.  Then again, the word “known” is doing some work here. We all assume that a player who doesn’t play freshman year for whom an injury is not announced voluntarily takes a redshirt. That may not necessarily be the case.

BC

That's my whole point. IBS wanted a sixth year (like Peek and Hamilton), and so their redshirt freshman year is judged to be via injury when it seems it was for other reasons. But perhaps, for reasons such as these, the team has its medical staff document injuries for their redshirt freshmen just in case something like this happens, even though the player would have redshirted (redshort?) anyway.

-m.

[Langdude]

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.
BC

That's what I've always thought. But it seems like players such as Peek and Hamilton redshirted their true frosh years for preparation and growth, not injury, as, until last year, was the custom for just about every true freshman at Stanford.

-m.

The counter argument is IBS, who did get a sixth year even though there was no known injury in at least one of his lost years.  Then again, the word “known” is doing some work here. We all assume that a player who doesn’t play freshman year for whom an injury is not announced voluntarily takes a redshirt. That may not necessarily be the case.

BC

That's my whole point. IBS wanted a sixth year (like Peek and Hamilton), and so their redshirt freshman year is judged to be via injury when it seems it was for other reasons. But perhaps, for reasons such as these, the team has its medical staff document injuries for their redshirt freshmen just in case something like this happens, even though the player would have redshirted (redshort?) anyway.

-m.