This decision may be a problem for Brantley.
Even if he "participated" in 5 games (it seems he recorded receptions in 4 games), wouldn't he be able to qualify for a medical redshirt?
Just not seeing how with covid and a medical redshirt, he does not have an extra year of eligibility and what the hold up is?
It seems the NCAA treated 2020-21 as a single season, as far as I can tell.
2022- played in 10 games for Western Illinois
2021- 11 games played for Sacred Heart
2020- Spring Season?- 4 games
2019-played at least 9 games for Sacred Heart
2018- appeared in 5 games before getting injured (ESPN lists only 4 games with stats)
Putting that aside, as far as I can tell, he should be eligible for a medical redshirt for 2018: "Redshirts are granted by the NCAA when a player missed a significant part of the season due to injury or medical concern. The player must have been injured before the halfway point of the season, have played less than 30% of games, and had an injury or medical concern that’s “season ending” (of course, with the usual exceptions)."
COVID played a huge factor for any College Football athlete that was on the team during the outbreak of the pandemic. The NCAA granted an additional year of eligibility to athletes due to the large impact on the season, with most schools cutting their number of games and some not even fielding a team. This is how some active College Football players are in their fifth or sixth season (looking at you, JT Daniels).
Naseim Brantley - 2021 - Football - Sacred Heart University
Naseim Brantley (3) WR - 2020-21: First-Team All NEC offense and Second-Team All-NEC return specialist. Lead the league and ranked 25th in the nation withsacredheartpioneers.com
Naseim Brantley - Football - Western Illinois University Athletics
Naseim Brantley (18) Wide receiver - HONORS (2022): Making his had six catches for 171 yards as well as touchdown catches of 51, 44 and 32 yards to earn Missourigoleathernecks.com
Naseim Brantley - Football - Rutgers University Athletics
Naseim Brantley (28) WR - 2022 Second Team FCS All-America (Phil Steele) 2022 MVFC Newcomer of the Year 2022 First Team All-MVFC 2021 Second Team All-NEC Springscarletknights.com
2020–21 NCAA Division I FCS football season - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
How Many Years Can You Play College Football?
Bo Nix in his fifth season of eligibility at Oregon – Image Courtesy Oregon Live Every now and again you see a player in a College Football opening line up that is well into his late twenties…cfbselect.com
DII approves season-of-competition, eligibility relief for 2020-21
Division II student-athletes will not be charged with use of a season for the 2020-21 academic year if their team can complete only 50% or less of the sport’s maximumwww.ncaa.org
I swore that read 50% somewhere else, and I was posting late (early in the a.m.).
I see this now (from Wikipedia):
"In January 2017, the trade association for college football coaches, the American Football Coaches Association, proposed a change to that sport's eligibility rules that maintains the current model of four years of play in five years, but significantly changes the redshirt rule. Under the proposal, medical redshirts would be eliminated, but redshirt status would not be lost unless a player participated in more than four games in a season.[3] The proposal, which was unanimously passed by the AFCA subcommittees for all three NCAA divisions,[4] was approved by the NCAA Division I Council in June 2018, taking effect with the 2018 college football season.[5] The original proposal was to have been retroactive, meaning that players with athletic eligibility remaining who had played in four or fewer games in a given season would have effectively received one extra season of eligibility,[4] but the final passed proposal was not retroactive.[5]"
The bio linked above on the Rutgers website says with respect to 2018: "2018 (Freshman at Sacred Heart): Played in five games with one start at wide receiver."
Frankly, Rutgers is not helping their cause here, as they are asking for an exception to the four game limit. However, I checked the participation list for the 2018 Sacred Heart v. Lafayette game, and Brantley is not on the list:
Football vs Sacred Heart on 9/1/2018 - Box Score - Lafayette College Athletics
The official box score of Football vs Sacred Heart on 9/1/2018goleopards.com
Also not on the list for the Sacred Heart vs. Bucknell Game:
Bucknell vs Sacred Heart - Football - 9/8/2018 - Box Score - Patriot League
The official Football box score of Bucknell vs Sacred Heart on 9/8/2018patriotleague.org
But Brantley is showing stats (and of course participation in the games against Wagner, Cornell, Penn and Dartmouth.
Did Rutgers present this information to the NCAA showing he is not listed as participating in the Lafayette and Bucknell games and he only participate in 4 games? 🤷♂️
I don't understand what the problem is with the NCAA that they still have this unresolved. Seems pretty simple. I'm sure Sacred Heart or their opponent had game tape from that season. Spend a couple of hours looking at the tape of the game in question and see if he played or not.
Yeah- I’ve been asking myself this too…fast forward through the game and you end up spending maybe 1.5 hours total to see if the kid came in for a play or not…
But as we have been asking, why can't he, with the assistance of Rutgers clarify the issue? Seems to be something that could be cleared up?
2018 per my post above. I gave links to participation lists for games.
Have no idea if it's accurate.
Maybe Keith Sargeant can do his next 4 month investigative report getting to the bottom of this matter.
I believe Rutgers did look at it and presented their facts, but for some reason no one will ever know, Scared Heart did not do their due diligence and follow up on the matter. Sacred Heart is the one who has to sign off on the eligibility card. No way would Rutgers have taken this kid if they didn't think they had a solid case.
Scared Heart, typo or not, love it. I have a proposal. Brantley lives in Farmingdale/Howell, right in our area. I'll borrow a fire engine, pick you up and we'll drive on up there and open up a can of whoop as with a firehose and whatever else we can throw at them and then threaten to sue them into oblivion, and make them an offer they can't refuse. By the time we are done with Scared Heart, they will be Scarred Heart. I'll be by at 3:30 p.m. We will strike the football complex at midnight. 🚒🧨
It would very easy to approve or deny Brantley’s eligibility by watching his 2018 season games.
Therein lies the rub. Just speculating- maybe the Sacred Heart "records" "show" that he "participated" in the game. Maybe he was on the "participation list," and maybe he tweaked something in warmups and did not actually play. Don't even know how he would present his side of the story that he did not go on the playing field at any point during the game, short of the deciding group of the NCAA watching video of the game.
