Devin Davis redshirting a season?

[MartintheMopMan 7,765]

I was honestly curious about the situation. I wasn't trying to say anything negative. I think we would all be lying if we didn't agree that athletes get more leeway than regular students in school. I've seen it a million times over and I go to a school with mid major athletes so I could only imagine how it is at high D1. Thats nothing negative against the athletes themselves. Its the nature of the beast. But by your explanation it sounds like DD will still just received an Incomplete his classes from this semester. Doesn't count against a student negatively or anything. You just get an incomplete if you withdraw after the the withdrawal period ends. 
I might have misread your last statement, I sensed some heavy sarcasm when I honestly was just curious. Sorry if I misread or misunderstood what you meant. 

Indiana University has a procedure in place for medical withdrawals that do not involve incompletes. I know because I had a friend have to go through the process during our time together in school. It didn't appear on the transcripts the same way it would otherwise. They're actually super accommodating about the whole thing and it's almost identical to if you'd decided on a total withdrawal within the correct amount of time.   

[Hovadipo 61,585]

Stan isn't. lol

Those iPads that came with the new Bill of Rights don't do a whole lot of good for their learning environment.

[KingPG21 6,606]

I was pondering something similar the other day: is he better off un-enrolling? I assume you can only be enrolled for so long before you actually have to attend classes. This semester I would assume he will receive incompletes for as I doubt he can attend class while rehabbing. It isn't a big leap to assume that he won't take classes in the spring either so best case is Summer 1. How long can one go before the university considers you inactive? For insurance reasons it makes sense to get a redshirt or hardship exemption, but if the NCAA won't grant the hardship (only speculating), it may make more sense to leave, re-enroll when he is mentally and physically healed, use the redshirt for that first season back in order to regain skills and shake off the rust, and finally return in 2 years. This all assumes he can ever play again obviously. Does anyone know what the university says as far as how long you can be enrolled before you have to attend classes? Do they grant leave of absences akin to FMLA in the workplace?

 

 

While on the one hand, I can't imagine how massive and strong a sixth-year DD would be. I don't know if it would be the best for his future to do that long-term plan.

The University has a program that allows you to pause for a year due to medical hardship without reenrolling when you come back, so I'm not worried about that. This semester he should have been able to have a medical withdrawal, full tuition refund despite it being too late, and the classes are either wiped away totally (like an early full withdrawal) or they're marked medical withdrawal I can't remember which. But, if he doesn't take classes in the spring then I'm almost certain he has to get a medical hardship waiver not a redshirt. If I remember the standards correctly he should be able to, the injury has to be incapacitating, before he's played 30% of the season, and he has to be actively engaged in rehab. A redshirt won't be available because he isn't keeping up with the academic requirements of the NCAA at the moment and in order to be redshirted you have to be otherwise eligible. 

 

Just to add onto this. Had a friend who had some serious health issues last year that caused them to miss the second half of fall semester, and they missed all of spring semester as well. The biggest thing was it set them back a year in their schooling, but in terms of enrolling/reenrolling or anything like that nothing needed to happen. 

[bnkepner 1,509]

Indiana University has a procedure in place for medical withdrawals that do not involve incompletes. I know because I had a friend have to go through the process during our time together in school. It didn't appear on the transcripts the same way it would otherwise. They're actually super accommodating about the whole thing and it's almost identical to if you'd decided on a total withdrawal within the correct amount of time.   

Thanks for the info!