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[QUOTE="General20, post: 2710366, member: 724"]
My guess is nobody redshirts.

I used to think that a redshirt was a great way to get the most out of a player, because after all anybody will be better in year 5 than they are in year 1 so why not make that trade?

I have come to learn that the reality is more complex.  First of all, how many kids who want to stay in college 5 years are worth giving an extra scholarship to?  The best players all want to go pro and make money.  Nothing against Washington or Braswell personally, but the odds say they are equally likely to transfer out to someplace they can crack the rotation as they are to stay and make it here.

Second, redshirt years are not a silver bullet that help everybody.  Chukwu's development, for example, seemed to slow by having to go a year without playing games.  Onuwaku, on the other hand, was helped immensely by it.  Why does it help some people and not others?  I have no idea, but I bet our coaching staff has some educated guesses.

So do we have somebody who is so good they are worth  giving an extra scholarship to, who also wants to stay in school for five years, who also is the type who will be helped by a redshirt?  I will usually bet against that.  There is a reason that basketball as a sport has a very small number of non injury related red shirts.

I will say this though, if Braswell is redshirted that's a good sign that the staff thinks he's going to mature into a really good player.
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