USC Juniors and Seniors can transfer w/o sitting out

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http://sports.espn.go.com/los-angeles/n ... id=5275644

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.

[RE Tycoon]

Do they have a Shawnbrey part II or an ES laying around?

[RE Tycoon]

Senior LB from Skyline. Bio says he was a part time starter battling to get back into the rotation next season:

http://www.usctrojans.com/sports/m-foot ... ael00.html

[Billy Joe]

He can't transfer to SMU - SMU would not take his credit hours and he would be classified as a freshman again

[mrydel]

The last sentence is the most important. Schools can contact the Juniors and Seniors directly. It is open recruiting for them.

[Dwan]

By now, the quality juniors and seniors on this team are focused on going pro and USC is probably a better place for that than anywhere else. The role players are probably so close to getting their degrees that transfering would put them further away from graduating. I think if they were given a TV ban, some guys might transfer or if incoming freshmen, freshmen, and sophmores could transfer, you would see some guys transfer.

[davidpaul123]

Senior tailback C.J. Gable said he would consider transferring to another school if he were guaranteed a starting job...

http://usc.freedomblogging.com/2010/06/ ... ere/41087/

[RE Tycoon]

I'm sure we can offer that. I would feel better about this season if our two best RB's weren't true freshman. Get Gable and let the two frosh RS...this coaching thing is easy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWRFyTuRwpw

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Wow. Very nice player. Go get him RETyc!

[Cadillac]

Wow. Very nice player. Go get him RETyc!

Makes you really wish McNiel had managed to pull off a decent draft position.

http://rivals.yahoo.com/smu/football/re ... VbXkxdtpB4

That's the kind of thing where are real hopes lie: Kids who can't quite crack the starting linup in UCS who could just destroy it in C-USA. And the Conference shift won't make a difference to Jr.s and Sr.s

-CoS

[Roach]

How about Reggie Bush?
I'm willing to bet he never graduated.