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goldenstang wrote:I found more on medical hardship waiver vs. medical redshirt and all that. This is a quote from the Big 12's stance on it. It is handled individually by conferences now and no longer by the ncaa.

If the student-athlete has two or more seasons of medial redshirt because of an injury or illness
(or one season of medical redshirt and one season of medical hardship), the Compliance Office
can file for an extension of the five-year clock (a sixth year) only after the student-athlete has
reached the end of the existing five-year clock.

https://admin.xosn.com/pdf6/104652.pdf?DB_OEM_ID=600

this excerpt only applies to individuals with 2 or more seasons affected by injury. Gilbert only has 1 season of injury. doesn't seem to apply to his situation.

That was my point. So he wouldn't get a sixth year. He would have to sit out a year here and then he would have one left to play. That has been my point this whole thread.

sorry, I didn't read the entire thread.

And why wouldn't we be interested in him for one year? I think it's great. IF things work out:

We have KP next year.
GG the next.
Then it's CP as a redshirt Junior battling Printz as a redshirt freshman... if CP wins... then:
Printz has two years starting as a RS Junior!

What could be better?

When is the last time we had a transfer from UT? Or from a high major top 10 program? Not including Shawnbrey since he moved back b/c of family reasons and TCU did not want him (their loss!)

ThadFilms wrote:And why wouldn't we be interested in him for one year? I think it's great. IF things work out:

We have KP next year.
GG the next.
Then it's CP as a redshirt Junior battling Printz as a redshirt freshman... if CP wins... then:
Printz has two years starting as a RS Junior!

What could be better?

sounds good to me. if nothing else, we get some media exposure from it. i guess you could call it a cheap marketing move.

Take his brother from TCU

This should have been one post saying he was at SMU's practice, and then 8 pages of people saying "Yes, take him."

One thread is so September 2011

Welcome to big time college football message boarding.

A couple of interesting bits of info. My apologies if any have been posted before.

• June is a man of few words. Even with his team and his coaches who he adores, conversations are pretty short. I was not at practice yesterday, but according to PonyPride, June spent about 20 minutes talking to Gilbert and his father. In June years, that's roughly equivalent to inviting them over for the weekend. So if nothing else, June certainly found them interesting as they held his attention for a long time.

• According to PonyPride, Gilbert was wearing a pretty significant protection/suspension apparatus on his throwing arm (his words were to the effect of "looked like a robot arm"). So my guess is that if he comes to the Hilltop, much of next year will be spent rehabbing his throwing arm.

• The orange people have essentially turned on Gilbert, so even if he were able to pull off a miraculous comeback, there's nothing for him down in Austin. Maybe he got himself into an untenable situation right off the bat by trying to compete with the little brother of a local legend. Gilbert obtained his release from UT yesterday. So although he may not come to the Hilltop, it's fairly evident that he's going somewhere.

• There's a reason why Mack is referred to as Coach February. IMHO, the coaching at UT isn't up to snuff. Best of everything and the top recruiting class nationally year after year, they have 1 national championship in recent history to show for it. Not to demean what it takes to win a national championship, but they should be competing for it almost every year, and they simply don't. June on the other hand has an NCAA Coach of the Year Award, orchestrated the biggest turn-around in college football history, and has a bonafide track record of getting athletes to play at their full potential. If there's one team on the planet who can give Gilbert what he needs to succeed now and on Sundays, it's coaches Jones and Morrison.

• I don't see any issues between Gilbert and Printz. Even if Gilbert got a second year, Printz would either take his job or he wouldn't. In either case, Printz would play 4 years. So in the end, what difference would it make to Printz?

• Lastly, we're thin at QB, and may be even more so because we haven't taken a QB in next year's recruiting class.