Former VT Quarterback Ricardo Young Transferring to Maryland?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiv71hB4Z0A

Jarrett Ross is the younger brother of Brandon Ross RB-Maryland. He is slightly faster, 4.30 40. Mike Farrell says he is a player to watch out for and on the rise. Here is the link along with Baltimore Sun’s article.

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7574104/west-virginia-mountaineers-join-big-12-july-big-east-lawsuit-settlement

any guesses as to if ’cuse and pitt change their stance and try to join next year?

I read an article somewhere that he could be eligible in the Fall if he graduates from his CC. Obviously, that would require a lot of classes and the successful transfer of some of his credits from Virginia Tech and New Mexico (assuming he had any credits there).

I don’t know all of the NCAA rules on the subject, but it actually sounds plausible.

A student-athlete who transfers directly to an ACC institution from another ACC
institution and who was recruited by the institution from which they are transferring, for whom the athletics department interceded in the admissions process, or who received any
athletically related financial aid during the academic year immediately prior to the
transfer is required to complete one (1) academic year (two full semesters or three full
quarters) of residency at the certifying ACC institution before being eligible to compete
for or to receive athletically related financial aid from the certifying institution.

The key phrase is “transfers directly to”, if that’s the case he could get through ACC rules on that loophole. The issue would then be the New Mexico/JUCO situation.

Has that DC league ever been any good in football? I know some of the schools are not nor ever have been comeptitive. Any other QBs come out of that conference?

lil bit of news

I only saw the “old” NCAA rules on this, but it sounds like Young’s eligibility would fall under the NCAA’s “4-2-4” rules. It will also depend upon whether he’s a qualifier, a partial qualifier, or a nonqualifier. And, the transfer also has to comply with the ACC’s supplemental rules as well.

The qualifer status is the first key. Once you have that (it appears as though that is only known by the player and the school), the rules show you how much you can do or “when” you can transfer, practice, and/or play. In some cases it requires a certain number of completed credits, graduation from the community college, and the passage of a certain amount of time (e.g., a full calendar year).

Too much to cut and paste, but here are a couple of links.

http://www.ncaapublications.com/productdownloads/TGONLINE2009.pdf

http://www.theacc.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/acc/genrel/auto_pdf/ACCEligibilityRules

I am UB Law taking a Sports Law class right now covering Regulating Intercollegiate Athletics and from what I have read it would take until 2013 for him to be eligible.

If. And I say “if,” he is considered a “qualifier” by the NCAA, then he might be eligible in the Fall (he might be eligible in the summer). That’s at least according to the NCAA’s rules.

Basically, he would have to have completed an average of 12 semester hours or 12 quarter hours that can be transferred to MD; earned a 2.0; and graduated from CC (and have one calendar year elapse since being at VT). If yes to all three, then he can practice and play right away. According to the reports that I’ve seen, he left VT in the summer (around August), so it seems that he could be eligible in the August of 2012. That’s again if the NCAA considers him to be a qualifier.

From the NCAA transfer guidelines:
4-2-4 and you want to go to Division I

If you are a qualifier…

Did you:
1. Complete an average of 12-semester or 12-quarter credit hours for each term of full-time attendance that can be transferred toward your degree at the four-year school?

2. Earn a GPA of 2.000 in those transferable credit hours?

3. Graduate from the two-year school AND have one-calendar year elapse since you left your previous four-year school?

If yes to all three, then you can practice and play right away.

It’s unclear whether or not any of his credits there would transfer. It’s also unclear whether that really impacts his status. He did not play there, so it may not have impacted his status at all. It he had played there, then that might restart the original “four” clock in the “4-2-4” but, since he did not play, it may not have much of an impact at all (minus any credits he may have accumulated that can be used to transfer to another school).

Didn’t he spend the 2009 at Hargrave? I know his 2010 season was his transfer season at UNM. With him playing his 2011 season at UNM, I assume he would not be eligible until 2013 and then would he have 2 years left?

That seems to be the big question. It will be interesting to see how this goes.

Because he would really make this offense explosive

Since his coach was fired prior to him playing for him?

Keeps producing

I have a feeling we are on the trajectory to be up there in the upper echelon ACC teams with clemson, FSU, etc (not VT, they will drop when beamer is gone) in a few years. We are certainly hoarding talent and creating major talent pipelines. The “fence” we always wanted around the DMV isnt quite a brick wall but its being built slowly, maybe its one of those dog shock collar fences these days, idk.

You may remember Javarie Johnson, a highly-rated recruit under Friedgen who quickly transferred to New Mexico. He still has 3 years of eligibility remaining since he was redshirted his freshman year (knee injury). He obviously knows Locksley (and Dancel…) and maybe he’d be alright playing here with the new coaching staff? He seems like he could be a good fit as a 3-4 OLB.

It should be noted that I have not seen anything about him transferring so there’s really no real reason to put much thought into this. I do wonder if Locksley has been in his ear though…