<p>Your posts are always informative and you raise another good point about red-shirting. We had been told that since this scholarship is an athletic one it would not be lost if an injury necessitated red-shirting. But I’ll have to ask my kid if that would mean that I have to pay fees for meets attended in this condition if this situation were to happen. You also made me remember one OV at a great school which is synonymous with the kid’s sport and has big revenues from other sports. The coach said they often red-shirt freshmen and asked me if I would mind driving a bunch of them when The Big Event rolled around! This is not why my kid turned this school down, but we did shake our heads privately wondering why Massive Sports Budget U couldn’t rasssle up a minivan for this endeavour. I guess like you said it would break NCAA rules.</p>