No. He should have to transfer to a MAC team.

Further evidence that college football is more about business than anything else...

Yes, if Pete Carroll and USC like competition so much.

Furthermore, it's not like Holland will make a difference for the Ducks. He'll always be hurt and on the sidelines.

I say, let's let him transfer to UCLA. Then he can experience what the bottom-feeders' existence is really like.

He wants to be the featured guy but has an attitude problem, misses or messes up his rehab schedule and is injury prone... And PC dismisses him. That sends a big message to other teams...

He should transfer to ASU. I hear the NCAA is setting up compliance offices outside the stadium. I'm sure steroids will help him get over his injuries...

Players shouldn't be allowed to transfer to schools within their conference in the same year. If they want to transfer in conference there should be a 2 year waiting period. You want to transfer so badly? Then go to another conference.

These kids have access to entire playbooks. They shouldn't be able to go to schools within the conference - schools USC will be playing this season. Go be injured at Florida or Boise St.

Not if PC suspects tampering by Belotti's crew. Let the university committee overrule him if necessary, but if coaches are starting to poach instead of doing their own recruiting, you've got to cut that off at the head. Not that I'm upset about the departure. Darwinism does this to some kids.

Just because of his insider knowledge of the Trojan program, he should be blocked from any 'in conference' transfer unless it costs him a 2nd yr of elgibility.

No. Pete should never release a player to another in conference program... period.

I agree with Tyler. If they have had access to the playbook then they shouldn't go to a school in dirrect competition/same conference.

All he will do is get hurt and stand on the sideline and bitch again, except this time in Oregon..

Ditto what Tyler wrote.

I'll preface this by saying I would hold this position for a Bruin as well.

As long as tampering was not involved, allow him to go where ever he feels is best for him. When a kid is recruited, I am sure the coaches tell the family we will take care of your son, we care about him as much as a person as a baller.

If this is true, walk the walk, let him play where he chooses.

again, if tampering is involved, whole different story.

As far as I know it's a normal practice to grant a release to a player as long as he intends to transfer to a school out of conference that is not on the up coming out-of-conference schedule (tOSU, Notre Dame, etc) ...If he wants to be on the Oregon track team, Let Him , but no Football

I'll preface this by saying I would hold this position for a Bruin as well.

As long as tampering was not involved, allow him to go where ever he feels is best for him. When a kid is recruited, I am sure the coaches tell the family we will take care of your son, we care about him as much as a person as a baller.

If this is true, walk the walk, let him play where he chooses.

again, if tampering is involved, whole different story.

No he shouldn't be allowed to go in-conference.

"again, if tampering is involved, whole different story"

Using your reasoning, why should this matter? Why punish the kid for misdeeds of the other school. Why not just report it to the NCAA and "walk the walk, let him play where he chooses."

I'm sorry. The schools don't own these kids. If he were an employee of a company in California, a company would have to compensate him specifically for voluntarily signing a non-compete with no repercussions for not signing for the non-compete to be enforceable after employment. Companies that want enforceable non-competes (as opposed to baseless threats to hold over employees' heads) typically offer cash bonuses or stock options grants, and in any case the maximum employee liability is repaying the bonus or giving up the options grant. This non-compete stuff is bad public policy at any level, including football players on scholarships.

As to the playbook access... If PC thinks his playbook is so important that denying a transfer to any school is really about protecting the playbook and not about unwritten rules of the game, then he can't coach for shit, and we all know the latter is not true. Let him go and see how he feels about being on the other end of Taylor Mayes in 2008.

GOOD ARGUMENTS HERE ON BOTH SIDES---BUT I TEND TO VOTE NO---FOR THE REASONS THE NO VOTERS GAVE