Looks like one of the transfers in purgatory got thru...does this mean the same may happen for Brantley?
Hope for Brantley?
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Pretty sure Brantley is doing just fine now that he engineered the takeover of his uncle's company...
We still are weak in that respect. Little juice when it’s Rutgers. As a fanbase I have to believe we have some “ influential” people in the area of NCAA decisions. We are looked upon as less than a North Carolina . We all have seen this many times. I hope Brantley comes back and gets to play 3-4 games including a bowl game. If he plays that number he would still maintain eligibility…? Think so but he may not get cleared at all and that is a very sad outcome for him.
Hate how NCAa slow walks important decisions for young people that possibly impact their lives and future.
His first season amazingly enough was 2018. I guess because he only played in four games that season he got credit for a redshirt year. If he plays next season it’ll be his seventh year of college…with one redshirt season, one COVID season and one sit out season.
When was the last time you could say that about a wideout here ?
Been awhile. Preseason projections had WR Brantley among the top 10 WR’s in the B1G.
Well, if Brantley is back next year, along with Long that should give RU the beginnings of a quality group of wideouts for 2024.
Pretty sure Brantley is doing just fine now that he engineered the takeover of his uncle's company...
That is Whitfield….
Question: Even if nothing happens with the NCAA , could Brantley still play in a post-season bowl game even though he wasn't eligible to play in the regular season?
At the pace that the NCAA moves that question should be answered sometime in 2027.
That is a nice pull, although him thinking Helen Slater is the most amazing looking woman he’d ever seen casts some doubt on his credibility to be CEOPretty sure Brantley is doing just fine now that he engineered the takeover of his uncle's company...
I’m assuming the old five years to play four (+1’s for Covid) is no longer a thing if you get caught up in the transfer sit out rule.
I believe that's the way it is now. It used to be if you sat out and didn't have a redshirt available you would have to forgo a year of eligibility. However, the big thing with Brantley is, Rutgers and Brantley say he only played 4 games in one season and have sent video to back up its claim. Sacred Heart has him as playing 5 games and are unwilling to correct the mistake. The NCAA goes by the schools eligibility cards (well it was cards back in my day) on each player so Sacred Heart would have to amend the mistake.
Even if he "participated" in 5 games (it seems he recorded receptions in 4 games), wouldn't he be able to qualify for a medical redshirt?
Just not seeing how with covid and a medical redshirt, he does not have an extra year of eligibility and what the hold up is?
It seems the NCAA treated 2020-21 as a single season, as far as I can tell.
2022- played in 10 games for Western Illinois
2021- 11 games played for Sacred Heart
2020- Spring Season?- 4 games
2019-played at least 9 games for Sacred Heart
2018- appeared in 5 games before getting injured (ESPN lists only 4 games with stats)
Putting that aside, as far as I can tell, he should be eligible for a medical redshirt for 2018: "Redshirts are granted by the NCAA when a player missed a significant part of the season due to injury or medical concern. The player must have been injured before the halfway point of the season, have played less than 30% of games, and had an injury or medical concern that’s “season ending” (of course, with the usual exceptions)."
COVID played a huge factor for any College Football athlete that was on the team during the outbreak of the pandemic. The NCAA granted an additional year of eligibility to athletes due to the large impact on the season, with most schools cutting their number of games and some not even fielding a team. This is how some active College Football players are in their fifth or sixth season (looking at you, JT Daniels).
The continued incompetence of the NCAA shows no end. Seriously, how can it take a full season to get this situation resolved?
The issue is his former school. They say he played 5 games and he said he only played in 4 games.
Sacred Heart is lying. Should be easy to confirm.
As I asked above, why can he not get a medical redshirt under the rule that " in order to be granted a medical redshirt, the athlete must: Suffer an injury that is deemed “season-ending” Their injury must occur before the halfway point of the season. Not participate in more than 30% of the season's games."
I might be wrong but that’s exactly the issue: 30%
Sacred Heart is saying he played in 30% of the games in 2018 and Brantley is saying he didn’t.
Medical Shirt only he didn’t play in 30% of the games.
I swore that read 50% somewhere else, and I was posting late (early in the a.m.).
I see this now (from Wikipedia):
"In January 2017, the trade association for college football coaches, the American Football Coaches Association, proposed a change to that sport's eligibility rules that maintains the current model of four years of play in five years, but significantly changes the redshirt rule. Under the proposal, medical redshirts would be eliminated, but redshirt status would not be lost unless a player participated in more than four games in a season.[3] The proposal, which was unanimously passed by the AFCA subcommittees for all three NCAA divisions,[4] was approved by the NCAA Division I Council in June 2018, taking effect with the 2018 college football season.[5] The original proposal was to have been retroactive, meaning that players with athletic eligibility remaining who had played in four or fewer games in a given season would have effectively received one extra season of eligibility,[4] but the final passed proposal was not retroactive.[5]"
The bio linked above on the Rutgers website says with respect to 2018: "2018 (Freshman at Sacred Heart): Played in five games with one start at wide receiver."
Frankly, Rutgers is not helping their cause here, as they are asking for an exception to the four game limit. However, I checked the participation list for the 2018 Sacred Heart v. Lafayette game, and Brantley is not on the list:
Also not on the list for the Sacred Heart vs. Bucknell Game:
But Brantley is showing stats (and of course participation in the games against Wagner, Cornell, Penn and Dartmouth.
Did Rutgers present this information to the NCAA showing he is not listed as participating in the Lafayette and Bucknell games and he only participate in 4 games?
Nothing is too good for the players. That's why the NCAA gives them so much of it.