Answer Tuesday (Football Forum, Part 4)
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Q: Transfer Question - USC's statement said Green "has asked for and received a release from his scholarship." Does this make it easier for him to transfer than if he had just quit after the season? I remember something similar about Mustain when his high school coach left Arkansas, but he still had to sit out a season when he came to USC. If there is no advantage in being released, why bother and why quit during the season.
A: Every athlete needs to obtain a release to transfer otherwise you need to sit out an extra year. If the school does not release a player, the athlete can appeal to a university committee to get his release. Rocky Hinds could not get his release from Pete Carroll but a USC committee granted him one when Carroll did not want him to go to UNLV. Mitch Mustain did eventually get a release from Arkansas, it just took awhile.
Q: More likely to happen: you hiring the USC song girls for your party or Tom Hoffarth hiring Pete Arbogast for play by play for his event?
A: I would hire the song girls any day. As for Hoffarth, well . . . .
Abogast has his own family parties to write about.