Talk about the height of stupidity!!!
Earlier this week I think there was a proposal to the NCAA to allow BB players to play in 4 games and not burn a redshirt. The NCAA turned it down with little discussion.
Currently in basketball there is the same old rule that if you play in 1 play you burn the redshirt. Football changed it 5 years ago or so. Football has 4 out of 12 games or 33%. Basketball has nothing. If you went with 33% it would be about 12-14 games. Even if you only give them 4 games...... They get none.
This discussion took place because Michigan had 2 games postponed because they did not have 7 players. We have Will Schetter and Isaiah Barnes who are redshirting. They are both healthy. If they were allowed to play in even 4 games we could have played both those games. What is interesting is that the NCAA will even allow you to keep those guys back. I would think they would make you burn them immediately.
Anyway, the non-redshirt rule in Basketball is idiotic.