Coach P believes in redshirting his freshmen so that when they hit their senior year they have been in the program for 5 years and I don't see that changing any time soon
By the way the football coaches of all the colleges had their convention recently and the coaches voted that if a player plays in 4 games or less that they can be redshirted now if they get hurt it has been sent to committee for their approval
One more thing in regards to incoming freshmen recruits the scholarship kids always come in with a leg up on the walk-ons so the walk-ons have to work that much harder to impress the coaches it's the same as in the NFL with draft picks versus free agents. Look at some of our starters last season for SBU that came in as walk-ons; Joe Carbone, Donald Liotine, Dennis Lestrange, John Haggart, Nick Conway just to name a few.