The House of Blue

They have an OT looking to transfer into the conference too. Just not at Vandy.

The OT is a GA kid heading back to GA sounds like. I'm guessing the Maryland/Franklin block goes back to him being the Coach in Waiting there.

I don't like anyone telling somebody where they are able to go to improve their lives, but it's also bad business IMO for Vandy to look at anyone from Maryland this soon.

I'm not sure why anyone would care. It's not like Maryland or Vandy are particularly any good.

I agree with this Slinger, especially with kids getting in trouble and being suspended or getting into academic trouble, then leaving. I believe that's what happened with Dyer at Auburn and following Malzahn (sp) to Arky State. I could be wrong, but I believe that's what happened

The NCAA opened that can of worms themselves with allowing Masolli to play at Ole Miss two years go. He got kicked off Oregonwent to Ole Miss and the NCAA told him he wouldn't not be elligible then immediately backed off.

Looks like that one zinged right over the top.

What about when Coach Cal left Memphis for Kentucky and brought oral commitments Demarcus Cousins, Eric Bledsoe, etc.?

Bad business?

The Maryland quarterback is a good player who got benched late in the season by Coach Randy Edsel. He is looking to make a fresh start and has a past relationship with Coach Franklin at Vanderbilt.

I don't see the issue.

Oh, if you want to get into the right and wrong battles on this, I think you can argue very strongly that the kid is the victim in this situation and should be allowed to do what he wants. The player gets punished for having gone to play for a particular coach that left to go coach somewhere else while the schools stand to make millions if he pans out. The player gets treated like a prisoner over something that he had absolutely no control over.

Also, who can argue with a kid wanting to get a Vandy education over Maryland? I see this from a completely different viewpoint. The kid is getting a hose job.

Disagree JDrum. It isnt like Franklin is the one who left them, it was Maryland who did not follow through with hiring him as head coach and thus he was forced to go elsewhere. Shame on the NCAA to allow coaches and schools to be this petty and vindictive towards former employees by using kids. It was a travesty a few years ago when Jurich refused to let UL football players transfer to Arkansas - a team not in UL's conference, and not on their schedule. Dooley has been beyond reprehensible with his limitations/blocks of transfers. And yet noone anywhere stands up to this nonsense or suggest the NCAA step in and stop the harm being done to "student-athletes".

No and here is why. If players are transferring from place to place, then there becomes an incredible gap in talent. Say a kid at Syracuse blows up and decides to transfer to UGA because he does not have to sit out a year, that is not fair. Essentially, there would be an annual "free agency."

Also, argue it all you want, but the NCAA has STUDENT-athletes. If you let guys transfer based on athletics, then it becomes more and more obvious that academics are not a concern of the NCAA. Which violates their amateurism statement and everything that they are about.

If you want to go from Auburn, where you are getting NFL exposure to Arkansas State, then by all means. I have no problem with that. He does not have to sit out a year, because he is transferring down in the ranks. DI to DII.