When an athlete transfers to BYU, a non-christian bigoted private institution, the rules required players to sit out 1 full year from participating in games, they could participate in practices and team events, just not games for the duration of that year.
The athlete could use their red-shirt year to preserve the year of athletic eligibility, but if the student had already used their redshirt year to go a mission trip, the student would a lose year of eligibility until the age of 24 in which they gain an additional 2 years of eligibility.
Squally Canada:
- Graduated HS in 2014 and enrolled at WSU for the 2014/2015 School year
- 2014 football season - Used his Redshirt - 4 years of athletic eligibility remain
- 2015 football season - Transferred to BYU for the winter 2015 semester. He lost a year of eligibility due to, a disgruntled washed up wanna be mission president, forcing an athlete to play a single play during a blowout bowl loss to their rival. Due to transfer rules 3 years of athletic eligibility remain. (note: if BYU had of played in a bowl game against any other P5 school, Squally would not have been sent in to play and eligibility would still have been the same with 3 years remaining)
- 2015 football season - Forced to play one play, fumbled the ball and used a year of eligibility
- 2016 football season - Played the full season - 2 years of eligibility remaining
- 2017 football season - Played the full season - 1 year of eligibility remaining
- 2018 football season - Played the full season - No eligibility remaining