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Doesn't seem like they were; the answer to whether they should be is whether the coach thinks the player has future value to the team. In the old world, for players on standard year-to-year scholarship contracts, if a player unilaterally told a coach he's redshirting rather than it being the result of a discussion, the coach then had to decide whether the player is getting his scholarship renewed for next year. If that's a no, then the coach had to decide whether it's a greater disruption to just boot the guy or let him hang out.

What you didn't have in that world was that second decision impacting continued NIL payments. It would be shocking for VT to offer scholarship terms limiting the coaching staff's ability to kick a player off the team, so any claim to stay with the team scans transparently as clown shit. How that decision affects the NIL payments comes down to the individual NIL contract's terms, though, and that's something we don't have access to.

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