USC Players Eligible To Transfer Scot-Free

None are eligible to transfer to M because the classes are High School equivalent.

Maybe it is just me, but I feel a bit bad picking over the carcas of USC before the body is even cold.  We are talking about one of the premiere football programs in all the land, and even though they are suffering right now, maybe we should all take a step back and grieve for them...

Okay, almost held it together.  Screw USC and its clearly disregard for the rules.  I'm still not completely comfortable with the idea of these kids being treated like an extra ball in the pinball game of recruiting, but USC deserves to have a mass exodus and be left in a lurch for a couple of years.

"Well pick em up!"

Next year would look a lot better with Ro-Jo, Chris Gallipo, and a misc 4-5 star CB or two.  Is it a recruiting violation to post Michigan's returning secondary on a billboard outside of the USC weight room?

C'mon RoJo!

I'd like a ball-hawking safety, a tall cover corner with quick recovery, and a linebacker with natural pursuit skills.  To go.

How many scholarships do we have?

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Is Michigan realistically looking to poach some of these players?  How will this process work?  We desperately need the help...getting anyone off the two deep roster would be amazing.

 I find it interesting that the top two recruits (QB and WR at Mater Dei H.S.) coming in next year to USC aren't phased by the announcement of NCAA sanctions.

I do think Mike Garrett will be fired over the next couple of months, which might apply some unwanted heat on Mr. Kiffin should he continue the secondary violations parade and otherwise not perform.

I think maybe 1 or 2 kids will leave. All the speculation is fun, but I really don't expect much out of this, especially for Michigan.

Maybe it's just me, but a post-season ban probably wouldn't cause me to move halfway across the country if I were about to start my senior year.  And the scholarship reductions won't affect the 2010 seniors, anyway.  So I wouldn't expect a flurry of seniors to transfer - no RoJo, no Mitch Mustain, etc.

The juniors and [potentially] Class of 2010 recruits are probably the ones more ripe for the picking.  And even so, I doubt many will consider Michigan.  The speculation about these kids coming to Michigan is probably much ado about nothing.

Not to be Debbie Downer... but how does transfering to Michigan automatically put these kids in a bowl game? 

I'd love to see Michigan go 13-0 this year and all and really do think they can win 8 or 9... but let's say they fall a little short of that.  Are USC kids going to be fired up to transfer to a place that's going to take them to the Alamo Bowl? 

Our only chance to even have a shot with anyone is the promise of immediate starter, IE... a DB or Safety maybe, but that would be a extreme longshot as well.

At this point though how many top notch schools have schollies available for this year?

post-season ban, will not likely be looking to go to a team in the midst of a post-season drought

Looking at the amount of players from the West Coast (obviously lots of them) on this list leads me to a question I haven't seen addressed.

If one of these guys wants to go to a Pac 1X team, are they eligible to get a scholarship?  I ask because as we all know from the Boren situation, if a player transfers from one Big 10 school to another they are not eligible for a scholarship in the new school.

Does this rule apply across all conferences (specifically the Pac 1X)?

It would seeem that if it does, that would give us a bigger shot a landing a player since they would be much more likely to look at a long-distance move if they're unable to go to another Pac 1X team.