Juniors and seniors to-be on the USC Trojans' football team, hit with a two-year postseason ban among other punishments, will be allowed to transfer to other FBS programs without having to sit out a season, the NCAA clarified to ESPN on Friday.
"The second school would have to submit a waiver asking to waive the year in residence, but NCAA rules allow for this waiver to be granted if a student-athlete's first school has a postseason ban in their sport," NCAA spokeswoman Stacey Osburn said in an e-mail to ESPN's Joe Schad.
The rule does not apply to freshman who have signed national letters of intent, however. But schools with an interest in a USC junior or senior are allowed to initiate contact with the player, Osburn said.
Clearly we would have to have some sort of connection to even have a chance. I wonder if there are any upperclassmen at USC that JJ recruited heavily while at Hawaii. Or if there are any from the DFW area. A guy who might never have seen the field at USC, or another of other programs, could come in and start for us on day 1 at some of our positions of need.
