I think there are several ways Saban will take advantage of the new rules:
1. Play any of the 4 games in 1st half of the schedule. Allow the freshmen to adjust to the game speed and then spend redshirt year learning from their experiences. This will allow their development to speed up.
2. Play any of the 4 games in 2nd half of the schedule. There might be some candidate that are slow to figure out things early on, but finally get it by LSU Game. I think we saw two or three players that came off redshirt due to injury late in the season.
3. Play 2 games in the season, work on learning the playbook and etc, and then play 2 later in the season before determining that they could take redshirt or not.
I'm curious to see how they will develop a plan for all of the freshmen. I do think that we'll see almost all redshirt after playing in 4 games, but then again... who knows?
1. Play any of the 4 games in 1st half of the schedule. Allow the freshmen to adjust to the game speed and then spend redshirt year learning from their experiences. This will allow their development to speed up.
2. Play any of the 4 games in 2nd half of the schedule. There might be some candidate that are slow to figure out things early on, but finally get it by LSU Game. I think we saw two or three players that came off redshirt due to injury late in the season.
3. Play 2 games in the season, work on learning the playbook and etc, and then play 2 later in the season before determining that they could take redshirt or not.
I'm curious to see how they will develop a plan for all of the freshmen. I do think that we'll see almost all redshirt after playing in 4 games, but then again... who knows?