Any update on Josh Dworaczyk's chances of getting a 6th year?

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What's the rule on how they give it out?

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I'm stumped. I'm not sure how the decision is made.

You can't apply for the medical hardship until after his eligibility runs out. So we won't know anything about this until after the season.

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You can't apply for the medical hardship until after his eligibility runs out. So we won't know anything about this until after the season.

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Ok, thanks.

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Williford and Collins.

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Could be. Or Hurst can move inside to G and Collins could start at T.

Found this info on the interwebz (apologies for the blocking issues):

MEDICAL HARDSHIPS

In athletics, injuries and illnesses are matter of when and to whom, not if. When injuries occur, the media and supporters of a college program often discuss the consequences of that injury and
speculate about a student-athlete’s recourses. Phrases such as “medical hardship” and “extension
of the five-year clock” (i.e., extension of eligibility, clock extension, etc.) are commonly heard or seen in newspaper articles or other forums. However, they are not the same; medical hardships and extensions of the five-year clock are two distinct concepts and qualifying for and applying for one entails a process and issues different from the other.

To understand medical hardships and extensions of the five-year clock, the following knowledge
is prerequisite: on the Division I level of the NCAA, student-athletes have five years within
which to participate in four seasons of competition (i.e., a five year clock). Any amount of participation in a competition will trigger the use of a season of competition. If a student-athlete redshirts (i.e., does not compete), but is healthy then that is a year charged against the student-athlete’s five-year clock but not a season of competition.

Similarly, if a student-athlete participates in only one contest near the end of the season, but was healthy for the entire year, that student-athlete has used one season of competition and one year of his or her five-year clock (the five-year clock begins once the student-athlete enrolls full-time in a two- or four-year institution and is tolled only in cases of U.S, military service, church missions and other specifically designated forms of service). But what if over the next two years the student-athlete successively incurs season-ending injuries? Does the student-athlete qualify
for a medical hardship and/or an extension of his eligibility? As for a medical hardship, the
answer depends on the circumstances.

A medical hardship is a form of relief that a university’s student-athlete will receive after a
university’s application to the conference only if:

• the student-athlete’s injury or illness was incapacitating;

• the student-athlete’s incapacitating injury or illness occurred during the first half of the
season and before competition in more then two contests or 20% of the season’s
scheduled contests (whichever is greater); and

• the injury or illness is supported by contemporaneous medical documentation.

If 20% of a season is a fraction (2.4), the fraction is rounded up to the next whole number. If successful, the effect of the medical hardship is that the student-athlete’s participation does not result in the use of a season of competition; nevertheless, the year that has passed does count
against the student-athlete’s five-year clock.

EXTENSION OF ELIGIBILITY

An application for an extension of his five-year clock is much rarer and more difficult to attain.
For an extension request to be successful, the institution requesting it on behalf of the studentathlete
must prove that the student-athlete was deprived of more than one season of competition
for reasons beyond his or her control. For example, a student-athlete could have been forced to withdraw from school for two years to help support his family or to care for an ailing parent. More commonly, the basis for an extension request is incapacitating injury. In cases of injury, the institution must show that the student-athlete suffered injuries or illnesses that prevented him or her from competing for two seasons.

Based on this criteria, I do not think Josh D. would get an extension of his five-year eligibility window, because he was not incapacitated for two playing seasons.

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Or Hurst can move inside to G and Collins could start at T.

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no way in Hell.

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Based on this criteria, I do not think Josh D. would get an extension of his five-year eligibility window, because he was not incapacitated for two playing seasons.

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While I agree with you based upon the wording, too many guys have been given a 6th year with a true redshirt. Keenum is one. There are more out there. Lots of discretion there.

I wish we had gotten Greg Robinson. I know we have talent, but that depth would help.