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[QUOTE="Sbucketball, post: 5387937, member: 8555"]
See, I disagree with that.

From the player's perspective -- If you clearly know you're not ready freshman year and won't get any minutes, why not preserve a year of NIL earning potential?  Practice for a year and then have 4 more years to earn NIL instead of 3?

From the program's perspective -- Coaches know when a kid isn't ready to contribute so it's no loss to use a redshirt if he's bench fodder anyway.  Of course there's risk he transfers after you redshirt him but what's the difference if you weren't going to play him real minutes anyway.  And if things change and you need him during the season, coach could burn the redshirt -- see Coach K v. Syracuse several years ago when he needed a shooter for the zone.

Definitely less common as most power programs aren't really recruiting these types anymore since most kids don't want to sit and wait.  They're more likely to start at a lower level and move up.   But I don't think it'll be a completely dead practice.  Still has a use in certain situations.
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