My apologies. I missed that he was trying to claim his freshman redshirt was a medical redshirt. That makes him, in my book, a total jackass.

I am an idiot. Corrected now.

DSchwind,

That is my point, the fact he got the standard redshirt precludes him from being able to get another. Frasor did not have that and if you total up the games Frasor missed from two seasons you come up with the full year.

One issue is I think Mauk is trying to argue that the freshman redshirt was due to injury but has not been able to produce documentation to prove it.

While I’m not wild about Ben Mauk, there’s a difference between him and Frasor. Namely, Bobby was not redshirted as a freshman. Also, what Ben Mauk is seeking is not actually out of the norm. He’s seeking to have 2006 be established as a medical redshirt, with the idea being that he missed so much time that year, that he basically had a second redshirt season forced upon him.

UNC actually has some experience with this as well in the form of Brian Chacos. He missed his freshman and sophomore years (2001-02 and 2002-03) because of a variety of nasty injuries and illnesses, and as such, he was granted an additional two years of eligibility by the NCAA. One of the DE’s down in LSU this year also got a sixth year. The real reason Mauk likely won’t get a sixth season is because one of his seasons was a standard redshirt, whereas in the case of Chacos and the guy at LSU, both players had two years lost because of injury instead of one.