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Alabama Won't Let 4-Star Graduate Transfer To These 2 SEC Schools

by Larry Leo

May 22, 201874 Comments

Alabama Won't Let 4-Star Graduate Transfer offensive lineman Brandon Kennedy from From Going To Thes

Alabama is trying to shut down 4-star offensive lineman Brandon Kennedy from playing for another SEC program in 2018. The Crimson Tide has reportedly denied Kennedy’s initial appeal. Per AL.com...

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Alabama denied offensive lineman Brandon Kennedy’s initial appeal to transfer to another SEC school on Monday, sources told AL.com.

Kennedy, who decided to leave the Crimson Tide program in early May, is hoping to join either Auburn or Tennessee as a graduate transfer but is still blocked from even having contact with those two schools as well as any other SEC schools and any future Alabama opponents.

The next step for Kennedy, who graduated in December, is an in-person hearing with Alabama’s appeal board.

(TheSpun)

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MrKnowItAll•71 months

He graduated.... shouldn't he be free to decide where he wants to go? He has completed his commitment to Alabama and to Saban ... do they still own him? ...... Free Brandon, Free Brandon, Free Brandon

19•71 months

This is what happens when you go down to the crossroads and get down on your knees...

BoogerSykes•71 months

This is what happens when you dance with the devil

Lordofwrath88•71 months

Yeah, countless sports leagues and teams have rules allowing clubs to prevent their rivals from benefiting from player development.

Erin Go Bragh•71 months

A school's athletic department should not have this degree of control over an individual who has graduated and decided it's to their benefit to move on.

Lordofwrath88•71 months

Move on wherever you want, just not Auburn or Tennessee. That leaves you with... 771 options.

Hangit•71 months

He is not an underclassman. He has graduated. He does not live on a plantation and is not owned by Alabama. He is an adult, in America.

Lordofwrath88•71 months

He's still eligible to play NCAA football, with means he voluntarily signed away that right in high school.

Hangit•71 months

He should never have been asked to sign any of his rights away. He was a kid in high school. Once again, massuh is controlling that runaway baw.

Black n Gold•71 months

A commitment to a school and its football program should basically be voided once a kid graduates.

SAINTS0321•71 months

Don't train the enemy

Lordofwrath88•71 months

Nope

reo45•71 months

Let this backfire and be spread far and wide. Alabama isn't committed to your success only it's own. I'd use this as recruiting bait like....a....mother.

SAINTS0321•71 months

Don't train the enemy success 101

Lordofwrath88•71 months

Yeah, most schools do this. Heck, many don't even allow you to transfer within the conference or to any of the teams on the future schedules. This is a non-story

Solo Cam•71 months

Amazes me that schools can tell a grad transfer where he can and can’t go.

spslayto•71 months

Yep. But coaches can up and leave to a rival school anytime. Even if they breach a contract.

beauchristopher•71 months

Saban is such a prick

SAINTS0321•71 months

No..he just isn't stupid

19•71 months

...half-pint bitch. -Ice Cube

SECdragonmaster•71 months

Petty of sabben

MrKnowItAll•71 months

Brandon should have read the small print in the contract for the Charger. (The Saban owns my soul clause).

Lordofwrath88•71 months

actually it's usually in the NLI. We reserve the right to deny a transfer to our rivals as long as you're eligible.

Giantkiller•71 months

Let this be a lesson to all Bama commits. You'll either be a star or you'll be relegated to being a tackle dummy. There's no middle ground.

DoubleDown•71 months

Can't that be said about any kid at any school? The bama hate runs deep. Let that hatred flow...

Dam Guide•71 months

Yeah, DoubleDown is right, this isn't restricted to Bama, this is a problem with the entire system. It's not really about education.

eugene1928LSU•71 months

You got that right double dumb down, i hate the gumps, since i was born, it flow out of my pores.

Placebeaux•71 months

The BAMA Plantation doing work

Fearthehat0307•71 months

At this point Larry has to trolling with his title errors. It’s getting absurd

CP3LSU25•71 months

emanresu•71 months

"Transfer" is being used as a stand alone verb, not as part of the term "graduate transfer."

Drizzt•71 months

Saban is so petty. He’s the John McCain of coaches.

Ric Flair•71 months

Can we stop referring to him as 4-Star? When you graduate, you’re not a HS recruit but a graduate transfer. Call him a backup or something.

pellietigersaint•71 months

saban you little count.......

Lordofwrath88•71 months

4...5...6...7..9..10 more national titles until I retire, ah ah ah

DEG•71 months

Grammar check in the title.

GeauxGriz•71 months

Thank you - I thought I might have had a stroke after reading the title about five times... English are the best language.

Deuces•71 months

Isn’t this what most SEC schools do? They usually let them leave the conference, only. If they want to go to another SEC school, they go to JUCO first.

JohnnyU•71 months

College graduates don't go to JUCO! It's surprising that a group of players haven't sued yet to have this rule judged to be unenforceable.

Sancho Panza•71 months

Sue them, & set a precedent.

Lordofwrath88•71 months

there's no case

Pavoloco83•71 months

I think its wrong that graduates cant transfer wherever they want. They gave 4 years to the commited school and earned their degree. God bless, if they want to play elsewhere and still have eligibility, they should have unrestricted ability to do so. Interesting that he could transfer to Georgia or LSU and that would be fine.

3down10•71 months

If the player graduates, then that's the school keeping up their end of the deal. The other end is the player is supposed to play football...and yet you are saying because the school kept up it's end, the player should no longer be obligated to what they signed? That doesn't seem....backwards to you?

Dallasgrowl•71 months

Players are on one year scholarship deals and one year only. The school and more specifically, the head coach, holds all of the cards with respect to their future. Once they graduate, the options of a player with eligibility should be completely in the players control.

Gumbo1•71 months

I didn't think he could be denied any university as a grad transfer. But what do I know...

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