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Vols quarterback Schaeffer leaving Tennessee
Knoxville, TN (Sports Network) - Volunteers quarterback Brent Schaeffer is leaving the University of Tennessee at the end of the spring semester, according to head coach Phillip Fulmer, who made the announcement Friday.

Schaeffer saw action in eight games as a freshman for the 2004 squad, starting three contests. He completed 18-of-37 passes for 302 yards and two touchdowns with one interception last season.



I hope he is not coming to a Big Sky school!!

gtapp wrote:Vols quarterback Schaeffer leaving Tennessee
Knoxville, TN (Sports Network) - Volunteers quarterback Brent Schaeffer is leaving the University of Tennessee at the end of the spring semester, according to head coach Phillip Fulmer, who made the announcement Friday.

Schaeffer saw action in eight games as a freshman for the 2004 squad, starting three contests. He completed 18-of-37 passes for 302 yards and two touchdowns with one interception last season.



I hope he is not coming to a Big Sky school!!

You know Hauck is going to be all over him, but i bet he lands somewhere in the southeast

Unfortunately, very few transfer QB's with talent leave their original school over something as risk-free as religious differences with the coach (like Ochs). This guy appears to be pretty high risk:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2043756

I'm sure somebody will give him a shot, though, as he probably deserves.

From articles, he started as a true freshman this past year, meaning he has a red-shirt year he can use for transfer.
I would guess he would go to a Div 1 team, sit out a year as a red shirt and then have 3 years (if it works the way I think it does).
Being from Florida, there are also a lot of Div II teams on the east coast that he would probably go to first before the BSC. I would look for him to go to South Carolina (with Spurier) as possibly his a first posibility. Spurier needs a QB and both have Florida ties.

Excuse my ignorance, but when a QB from a top ranked I-A school quits...isn't it always assumed he'll go to the Griz?

grizomatic: i think it's that the griz ALWAYS believe that EVERY 1a transfer is considering um.

Sporting News actually has him looking at Kansas St. and South Florida for an early prediction.

hokeyfine wrote:grizomatic: i think it's that the griz ALWAYS believe that EVERY 1a transfer is considering um.

I've gotta' agree on that, hokey.

BobcatLionFan wrote: Being from Florida, there are also a lot of Div II teams on the east coast that he would probably go to first before the BSC.

I haven't heard anything that makes me think this guy is even considering coming to the Griz; I agree with those who say he will probably sit for a year and go to another top I-A school.

However, to think that a starting QB from top I-A school would transfer all the way down to a Div. II school rather than come to the BSC is insane. Geography matters to an extent, but not enough to cause many players to actually drop down two divisions. He may go to an eastern I-AA (Furman, Delaware, App. State, etc.), but certainly not to a D-II school.

Grizlaw wrote:

BobcatLionFan wrote: Being from Florida, there are also a lot of Div II teams on the east coast that he would probably go to first before the BSC.

I haven't heard anything that makes me think this guy is even considering coming to the Griz; I agree with those who say he will probably sit for a year and go to another top I-A school.

However, to think that a starting QB from top I-A school would transfer all the way down to a Div. II school rather than come to the BSC is insane. Geography matters to an extent, but not enough to cause many players to actually drop down two divisions. He may go to an eastern I-AA (Furman, Delaware, App. State, etc.), but certainly not to a D-II school.

Thanks, mistype - Meant I-AA.
But the more I think about it, the more likely I think it will be that he will try to stay Div I-A, only reason to go I-AA is if you have only one or two years and can't afford to sit one year (like the Bowling Green failure the Griz picked up). The Florida kid like this will be agressive and try to play at a school like Marshall or so. There might be conditions however placed on his release by the Tenn coaches where he doesn't go to specific schools (they have to release him, he just can't decide he is going anywhere unless the Tenn coaches agree). That is why he might go 1AA.