Originally Posted by
inudesu
But that's the beauty of the 5 years to play period rule that he's proposing (as opposed to 5 years to play 4 that we have now).
It's like my Hermeneutics professor who gave a curve rather than try to quibble over a point here and a point there. If you wanted to argue every little deduction on a paper, he could always say "fine, we can discuss this point and maybe you get that one point, but then I'll stop giving the curve and you'll lose 8 or 9 or 10 points in exchange for that one."
Right now schools/players are in the quibbling over details stage. It's 5 years to play 4 unless you can appeal based on this or that. If they just made it a blanket 5 years period, play don't play, redshirt, don't redshirt, you get 5 years to play college football it takes that aspect away. If you get hurt in 2 of those years, that's a shame, but you still get the other 3 automatically. It would take some of the guesswork out of the process.