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By definition, an academic redshirt is a student-athlete, in 2016 and beyond, who meets the old eligibility requirements but not the new standards. An academic redshirt can receive a scholarship and practice with the team but cannot participate in games.
It harkens to the days of partial qualifiers, a byproduct of Proposition 48, enacted in 1985, and its successor, Prop 16. Partial qualifiers, who met only some of the criteria required by the former eligibility requirements, could practice as freshmen but couldn't play.
One major difference between academic redshirts of the future and partial qualifiers of the past: Academic redshirts don't lose a year of eligibility. After their first year in college, academic redshirts are left with four years to play four seasons; partial qualifiers had four to play three.
And as long as the academic redshirt passes nine credit hours in his first semester (or eight quarter hours), the athlete is eligible to continue practicing for the remainder of the first year and play the next season as a redshirt freshman.
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/r...ew-incoming-eligibility-standards-create-term
It harkens to the days of partial qualifiers, a byproduct of Proposition 48, enacted in 1985, and its successor, Prop 16. Partial qualifiers, who met only some of the criteria required by the former eligibility requirements, could practice as freshmen but couldn't play.
One major difference between academic redshirts of the future and partial qualifiers of the past: Academic redshirts don't lose a year of eligibility. After their first year in college, academic redshirts are left with four years to play four seasons; partial qualifiers had four to play three.
And as long as the academic redshirt passes nine credit hours in his first semester (or eight quarter hours), the athlete is eligible to continue practicing for the remainder of the first year and play the next season as a redshirt freshman.
http://espn.go.com/college-sports/r...ew-incoming-eligibility-standards-create-term
