I wonder how the NCAA look at this red shirt, as he was playing, and didn't reinjure the hip. Yet Iowa state played him for a third of the season, until they could get Burton back.
My nephew had his young daughters at a women's game last year and were getting autographs from the lady's team after the game. They spotted Naz down the hall talking on his cell phone as he was waiting for his girlfriend. The two girls approached him and Naz told the person on the phone he had to go. He then talked to the girls and signed their posters. My nephew told him he didn't need to hang up, and Naz responded that it would have been rude not to. I was there and witnessed the whole thing. He really left an impression on me. I don't think I'm a bad guy, but he certainly displayed more class than me in that simple act.
There's no telling what the NCAA will do, of course. But he meets all the requirements pretty clearly. The fact that he tried to come back from his injury and wasn't able to do so shouldn't work against him. And there's no benefit to the school or to him to keep him out of action the rest of this year if he actually were healthy enough to play -- just the opposite. If he could play, it would be huge for both him and the team to keep him out there.
It was however, beneficial for the school to play him the first 8 games while burton was out though. If I'm not mistaken, I thought the redshirt would be approved if the medical doctors deemed him unable to play, not if he's not as effective, which seems to be Isus stance here as well. It was interesting listening to Randy Peterson and chris Williams tonight say that they thought this was the plan all along for him, and that they aren't surprised. Weird to manipulate the system this way to get extra games out of a guy. Tough break for Isu this year though, it'll be interesting if he gets it.
Didn't Ellingson reinjure it though, and that's why he got the red shirt? I can't remember his sequence of events. I thought he hurt it in the summer, then reinjured it during the beginning of the season. I guess Iowa State could make the case that Naz reinjured it.
well hopefully for the kid, he can recover, and make some sort of career out of it.
Naz was hurting so much that he was not even practicing lately, only playing the games.
It wouldn't make any sense for Naz to make up a "re injury" so that he could sit out the rest of the season and play the following season. Everyone knows that this is a much better team than ISU will put on the floor next year. Naz is a nice player but he won't be able to elevate the 2016-17 team much higher than a borderline NCAA team (at best).
