re: How does redshirting work?

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You may be off on gray shirt. I believe Gray shirting is totally different and completely unrelated to red shirt. It has to do with a player committing to a school, but paying his own way so as not to burn a scholarship.


Yep.

If I agree to attend LSU but they have 25 scholarships already "assigned" to others for 2019, I can "gray shirt" (totally made up term) and pay for the Fall semester - "walk on" for Spring and get my scholarship and count as a 2020 guy. It has become more tricky in recent years and isn't as easy as that. But, that is the gist.

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As said, greyshirt is a made up term to describe a work around the situation described. But your eligibility clock starts when you enroll full time regardless of being on the team or not. A grey shirt cannot be part of the team. If he attends in the fall at all, he must be a part time student and pay his own way. In the spring he can join the team full time on scholarship and his eligibility clock won't start until next season.