A true freshman and a regular ole freshman are the same.
True being that they haven't been redshirted. They are a freshman in school.
Redshirt freshman being that they are a sophomore in college, but during their first year of being eligible (freshman year in college) they were redshirted which means to wait a year on a player by the coaches decision. A player will commonly get redshirted if a coach is deep in depth of the position that the player is to play, but will be low in depth in the same position next year, so the coach might redshirt him so he still gets 4 years of playing but starting the next year.
The player will still have one year of playing after his year he is scheduled to graduate.
So there are a few different people:
True Freshman (freshman year of college)
Redshirt Freshman (sophomore year of college)
Sophomore (sophomore year of college)
Redshirt Sophomore (junior year in college)
Junior (junior year in college)
Redshirt Junior (Senior year in college)
Senior (Senior year in college)
Redshirt Senior (one year out of college)
Its a pretty confusing thing.
You may want to type what a redshirt freshman is on google if you got confused by this.
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