When an injury happens, you dont have built in contingencies like football with 85 scholarships. You have 13 scholarships and all 13 are needed. Ideally youd like a 9-man rotation and the other 4 are versatile and spread out among positions (PG, Wing, 4, 5)

If someone goes down, one of those 4 players hops into the rotation.

What if Bede gets hurt in January...out for the year. Do you burn Cone's redshirt? He will be coming into conference play without playing a single minute all year. Youre really screwing yourself.

It is even harder to redshirt a kid who has already played a full season. Basketball kids dont sit out a full year willingly like football. The only cases where coaches get away with redshirts are transfers, injuries, and occasionally redshirting a post player who has a lot of developing to do. FSU does that a lot.

Best way to push Cone out the door is to pitch a redshirt year.

FWIW, theyll all get a redshirt this season anyway