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Jim Harbaugh likes new NCAA football redshirt rule

Jim Harbaugh likes the new football redshirt rule adopted by the NCAA earlier this summer.

Speaking this week on his "Attack Each Day" podcast, the Michigan football coach called the new policy allowing student-athletes to play in up to four games without burning their redshirt "a good rule."

"Really player-friendly, student-athlete friendly," Harbaugh said. "The rule had been that you could play in four games and still be redshirted, but they needed to have been in four of the first six games.

"And then there had to have been (as) to why you didn't play in the remaining games.