Help me understand, please. There is much speculation that we will have 1-3 players redshirted for development purposes and because we are apparently so deep at shooting guard, in particular. When has McD redshirted anyone, other than one who transferred in, was injured or ineligible? We have lacked quality depth across the board for the past several seasons. If our recruits are/will be Big 12 caliber players, they will get there sooner playing real games. Several have commented on coming to
ISU because of the opportunity to compete for playing time right away. Most players don't want to stay around for 5 years. In fact, most students don' want to stay in school any longer than necessary.Let them compete for game time and learn. Some may fail and I would expect some to leave because they see they can't break into the starting lineup and want to step down to a program where they can. This isn't football, where they have a playbook the size of the Des Moines phonebook and they need to gain large amounts of weight and strength to avoid gettin killed in a game. Yes, more strength and weight will help. I expect no redshirts other than Christopherson, unless there is an injury.
