VIDAL HAZELTON GETS THE MARVE TREATMENT
The yearly tweaking of the rules is now on the docket, and let us humbly propose one rule in sore need of tweakage: the transfer rule, a bit of earth-salting schools may use on recruits who transfer out of programs. Robert Marve received an especially poxy variant of the treatment, with Miami refusing to allow Marve to transfer to an ACC school, in-state, or even to an SEC school. Now, it's USC transfer Vidal Hazelton's turn for a dose:
Vidal Hazelton, the former USC wide receiver from Staten Island, has been barred from talking to any Pac-10 teams and Notre Dame in his search for a new school, the Torrance Daily Breeze reported on Thursday.

Well, transferring to Idaho is still on the table.
Hazelton's from Staten Island, NY, so declaring West Coast verboten likely isn't that big a deal for someone wanting to transfer closer to home. That's not the point: Hazelton should have the right to transfer wherever he can get an offer, and USC shouldn't be allowed to hold him once he's made the decision to transfer. The year penalty--or some variation thereof--makes sense to discourage transfers, but restricting where a player goes after the transfer makes not using the word "chattel" very, very difficult when talking about players' relationship with schools in the NCAA.
In sum, it is a crappy situation. (Hey, at least Florida crapped itself in an individual case, as opposed to 22 players doing it all at once on the field at home against Alabama and in Jacksonville.)
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Just had to get a Georgia dig in there, didn’t you. What do you do for an encore, rape my mother while putting sugar in my gas tank?
by Doug on Jan 12, 2009 5:04 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Dayum! I wish I hadn’t looked at the enlargement pic.
by Brian O'Blivion on Jan 12, 2009 5:07 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I guess she must have been singing that Lady Gaga song “Just Dance” with the lyrics…
“just dance, gotta doo-doo”….in all honestly, even if that was Pamela Anderson, bitch is walkin home…..good to know she was corn fed…..
by Mr. Pelican Pants on Jan 12, 2009 5:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Surely Orson or some other SEC type reader has seen this:
http://www.ajc.com/sports/content/shared-blogs/ajc/cfbrecruit/entries/2009/01/12/steve_spurrier.html
Spurrier banned from a high school?
by Broom on Jan 12, 2009 5:12 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
As far as transfers, I hear JAX State is gonna be loaded AGAIN this year…..
Perr-woo to Vidal “Sassoon” Hazelton MUST HAPPEN
by Mr. Pelican Pants on Jan 12, 2009 5:15 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
She has definitely not been camping or backpacking. Shitting in the great outdoors is a lost art.
by skinnyphatman on Jan 12, 2009 5:17 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
LSU let the middle Clausen kid transfer to fellow School Tennessee. And their kindness was repaid by him hunting down and killing LSU on a Monday night in September. LSU IS GREATER THAN USC when it comes to human compassion and preparing kids for life after football.
by LSU>USC on Jan 12, 2009 5:17 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
#4
Based on recruiting results, I would venture to say Spurrier has been banned from alot of high schools…and if I was that dude, I would totally key Spurriers golf cart.
by Mr. Pelican Pants on Jan 12, 2009 5:23 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
In other news….
MIAMI (SP) — Shortly after leading the Florida Gators to a national
championship with a 24-14 win over Oklahoma, junior quarterback Tim
Tebow announced that he would skip his senior season and ascend
directly into heaven.
Tebow entered the press room to wild applause. A reporter for a 24-
hour cable sports network burst into tears when the 2007 Heisman
winner entered the room. Another threw a pair of boxer shorts on the
podium. Tebow smiled at the gesture and several sports reporters
fainted.
“Sorry I’m late,” Tebow began. “There was a six-year-old boy with
cancer in row 54 and I had to make my way through the crowd to heal
him.”
“I want to start by saying that playing quarterback for the University
of Florida, winning two national championships, has been a great
honor. There has been some speculation about my future and I want to
clear that up right now,” he continued.
“Don’t go, Tim!” a reporter shouted from the back of the room.
“After much consideration, I have decided to skip my senior season at
the University of Florida and ascend directly into Heaven,” Tebow
announced. Upon making the announcement, Tebow was bathed in a
blinding white light and vanished.
In response to the news, ESPN announced they will have a month-long
tribute to Tebow. ESPN2 will now be known as ESPN-TEBOW and will
feature Tebow highlights (including home videos of Tebow’s childhood),
re-airings of past interviews, Tebow-centric analysis by ESPN air
personalities, a Tebow quiz show and a reality show to find the “most
Tebow-like” person in America.
“He wasn’t just the greatest player in college football history,” said
a college football writer at the press conference, tears streaming
down his face. “He might have been the greatest person to ever walk on
earth.”
by kwaj on Jan 12, 2009 5:34 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, the Dawgs lost more than 20 players to season ending injuries and lost a couple of games this season. It’s still better than the 4 turds you layed last year jackhole.
And for God sakes, at least our fans don’t SHIT THEMSELVES!!!
Jesus you people are trashy.
by Gayturds Shit Themselves on Jan 12, 2009 5:46 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I think it is perfectly legit to ban one of your players from switching to another school that is on your schedule within the next couple of years.
If LSU didn’t do that, it just makes them dumb, not better.
by oc phil on Jan 12, 2009 5:47 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Tim Tebow is a false prophet. The NFL shall prove his mortality.
by Jesus on Jan 12, 2009 5:50 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
#10: You demonstrate a clear understanding of what’s going on here.
by Orson Swindle on Jan 12, 2009 5:52 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Better rule:
Schools can restrict players from transferring within conferences (not to spite the players but to prevent coaches from contacting their instate rivals’ players)
If a player is permitted to transfer in-conference, must sit one year.
If a player transfers outside the conference, no waiting period.
The only concern I have is if some stud TB at Texas Christian University decides after an amazing Redshirt Freshman season that to pack up and replace the departing starter at USC.
USC will end up reaping the benefits of TCU finding an unknown TB prospect and giving him a shot. Sounds suspiciously like Major League Baseball where the Yankees treat small marker teams as a farm league.
by Bamaman on Jan 12, 2009 5:58 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Suck it Orson – don’t be such a pussy. You wanna dish it out, be man enough to take it douchebag.
by Gayturds Shit Themselves on Jan 12, 2009 6:06 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
#10
Do you really wanna make Tebow mad yet again? And do it without Stafford and Moreno? Really? How many times can a program get smited?smoted?smooted? by the left handed man who sits on the right hand of God? and when they play 2 on 2 basketball in Heaven, its just Tebow and God vs Jesus and the Holy Ghost? He can call down the thunder at any time… you would think after Oklahoma, people would watch it……
by Mr. Pelican Pants on Jan 12, 2009 6:06 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Just thinking…
Maybe, just maybe, Miami’s list of verboten southeastern destinations has nothing to do with what’s best for the U.
I like to think that, given young Marve’s inability to keep a car on the road, they’re paternally keeping the young QB from driving to his next stop.
by Jack Fact on Jan 12, 2009 6:31 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
If Michigan can let one of their best linemen for the upcoming season transfer to the Ohio State University, then it is absolutely inexcusable for any school to place such broad restrictions on a player.
by Seer on Jan 12, 2009 6:43 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Coach Pat Dye: Protest leader and Civil Disobedient !
by kwaj on Jan 12, 2009 6:47 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I actually had to work today. So I may be late to the party. But good Lord…..thanks for making the first page I come to have all the comments together again.
by Last Dragon on Jan 12, 2009 6:56 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Seer -
Justin Boren, the former UM OL that you referenced, is not on scholarship at tOSU because he transferred within the conference. Any player who does that must pay their own way. He wanted out of Ann Arbor so bad, he was willing to forego a free education just so he could be on the winning side in a rivalry game.
by Crabapple Buck on Jan 12, 2009 7:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
#1, agreed.
Oh, yes…please kick us while we’re down.
Georgia sacrifices both Stafford and Moreno to the NFL and to the greater good and glory of football…
…while Florida gets to keep Tebow for one more year, actually denying him his own “payday”. Granted, eventually becoming a regional color-announcer for the SportsSouth network or, perhaps, even ownership of a car dealership in Gainesville might still be there next year, that’s another 12-months of earnings-potential that he will never be able to re-coup.
How will that sit with future recruits?
by DawgBoy83 on Jan 12, 2009 7:44 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Damn, you would think that Tebow would be thoughtful enough to warn people before he walks within 50 miles of them just to avoid such an embarrassing situation.
by meg on Jan 12, 2009 8:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Mr. PP @15:
“make Tebow mad yet again?”
Timmy is 1-1 against UGA as a starter.
(although comment #10 does reek of douche-liquid)
by NRBQ on Jan 12, 2009 9:11 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
But I’m not man enough to take it! And you’re right! OMG! I’m going to become a Georgia fan and ungay myself right now! ARP ARP ARP.
You win the internetz,
-O.
by Orson Swindle on Jan 12, 2009 9:40 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I think that according to Pac-10 rules, an in conference transfer can be forced to sit out two years. I might be wrong about this.
I’m trying to understand why not permitting a player to go to a school USC plays every year (entire Pac-10 and ND) is a bad thing. As stated by a previous poster… if LSU doesn’t want to prevent players from transfering to school on it’s schedule then that’s their problem for being stupid.
In a sport like football, where schemes and playbooks are so important, it seems perfectly logical to prevent someone with intimate knowledge of your schemes from going elsewhere.
Pete Carroll gave up his memory erasing powers as a New Year’s resolution. You guy’s should cut him some slack.
by Socalbryan on Jan 12, 2009 9:56 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
#10,
I’m sorry, I was distracted thinking about UF’s 4 national championships in the past 33 months, did you say something?
by Chas on Jan 12, 2009 10:47 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
I would gladly post pictures of myself crapping in a parking lot for a national championship OR exclusive pictures of Tim Tebow doing blow off of a hooker’s rear end ala miami style.
Shame is for people who don’t want it bad enough
by crane on Jan 12, 2009 11:19 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Wow, 4 in the past nearly three years. Luckily UGA has dominant tennis, equestrian, and gymnastics teams..if it is a question of national championships. All is not lost in the end.
by meg on Jan 12, 2009 11:44 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
And in a nutshell there’s the epitome of the Florida-Georgia rivalry in the 21st century: Georgia fans that used to talk smack by bringing up Herschel Walker or Lindsay Scott have been reduced to bringing up the Gymdawgs. Ah well, at least you have that.
To paraphrase C. Montgomery Burns: “Well, I say let Florida have its football and academics. Georgia will always be first in gentlemanly club life.”
by Chas on Jan 13, 2009 4:37 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
I think you’re off base here…
What Shannon did is despicable, I could see barring Marve from transferring to anywhere in the ACC but the SEC or Big East Florida schools? No way what Pete Carroll did is on the same level as that.
This is almost like signing a non-compete agreement.
These are big boy responsibilities and with that comes consequences. Players often make these choices WITH their parents involvement so its not like they dont know where all the potential landmines are out there. Shannon is despicable in how he treated Marve but what Carroll did is well within his rights. Hazleton said that he wanted to be closer to home but what if he changed his mind and decided to go to say Cal? Carrolls move was simply one of protecting his own teams agenda. Dexter Hazelton (Vidal’s dad) has shown more than once that he is capable of trying trying to put the screws Carroll so just to make sure he couldnt do it again Carroll restricted Vidals choices.
Welcome to the real world…
It would also appear that you have a bit of a selective memory, its not like Urban Meyer hasn’t used his position to restrict a player from transferring…Florida Lineman James Wilson wanted to transfer to Wake but Meyer wouldnt let him out of his schollie so that he could try to convince him to stay, Wilson did stay, but by not letting Wilson go when he wanted to Meyer’s move could also be seen as protecting his assets, just like Carroll did.
So what’s the difference? I wouldn’t put what Carroll or Meyer did on the same level of Shannon…not in a million years.
by Paragon SC on Jan 13, 2009 5:22 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
The photo of the “crappy situation” has been taken down by the blogger who put it up. Does anyone have another link? My sister is in a sorority at UF and got pretty drunk before the game. I’m hoping it’s not her.
by John on Jan 13, 2009 6:08 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
@ # 10, I think the AJC reported that the Dawgs lost 19 STARTERS to season-ending injuries, mostly linemen. The off-season will be spent rebuilding – knees.
Tebow is staying another year as a gesture to Matt Stafford and avoiding a quarterback surplus during the first round of the NFL draft. And avoiding the Detroit Lions.
Missed the picture (ti’s down now); my good luck.
by Sundawg on Jan 13, 2009 7:15 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Different sports and conferences have different rules. In baseball, where there’s no full rides, kids transfer between major programs all the time, without losing a year of eligibility.
I know the Big 12 forces a two-year-sit when transferring between conference schools.
by Albino Tornado on Jan 13, 2009 7:37 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Even in an organization as arbitrary as the NCAA this seems like a ridiculous rule. Whatever the rule is, it should be clearly set out in advance so that it’s equally applied to all players.
You’ve got to like the continued hypocrisy it shows: The NCAA keeps saying these kids are STUDENT-athletes. At the same time, they allow a rule that treats them exclusively as athletes.
by OhioDawg on Jan 13, 2009 8:16 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
Regarding Meyer and the requested James transfer, the friction arose when James wanted to leave mid-semester. Meyer would have let him transfer, but not until after he’d gotten through the semester and the spring-training he had accepted under his scholarship. I do not know the reasons behind Vidal’s request, but no way its conditions are as onerous as scUM and Shannon’s.
Also, always enjoyable to see the true-dawg bark as presented in #10…I’d be embarrassed, but that’s just me…
by sb on Jan 13, 2009 8:39 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
UGA fans still pissing in the wind. The ESS-EEE-SEE is not for theirs for the taking every year and that truth hurts more than ever.
by Jim on Jan 13, 2009 9:23 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
@ #33, I believe you’ve been misled by the AJC…it’s ok, it happens. While UGA had injuries this past year, they were not unlike any other div 1 football program. The “18” referenced players with season ending injuries were definitely not all starters. Most weren’t even on the 2-deep, ie. the scout team was decimated.
@ #10, step away from the ledge…or, maybe put the crack pipe down?
by SportsJacket on Jan 13, 2009 9:52 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
@10:
You all were preseason #1 yet went 9-3 giving up 40+ points in all 3 of those losses (2 of which were to your 2 Biggest Rivals.)
“Gayturds”. Wow. Original.
Nice how you resort to playing the “injury” card. All teams have to deal with injuries. Pay attention.
by LL on Jan 13, 2009 11:22 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
@22:
I’ve always found that argument funny as Tennessee Fans have always done the same thing with Peyton. (i.e. “So! He never beat Florida but… but…. he won a Super Bowl and is an NFL MVP! Where’s Wuerffel at, Huh?!?”)
I would rather Tebow win all he can at UF and do absolutely nothing in the NFL (for a team that I could care less for), than to win absolutely nothing at UF but be a great Player in the NFL (for a team I could care less for.) The NFL sucks.
By the way, how many SEC Title Games did Stafford and Moreno play in while at UGA?
by LL on Jan 13, 2009 11:28 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
LL? Are you a pediphile? “The NFL Sucks?” Dude, stay away from the high school children.
Memo: 40 year old dude’s who chase after college football players autographs, is well, scary.
by The Dude on Jan 22, 2009 5:20 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

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