re: Birmingham prep star DE switches schools in Week 10

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The rule would prevent programs (especially dirty ones like Thompson) from pilfering talent during the season. Not sure if it’s been mentioned, but Thompson lost their two best defensive linemen last season. Now a four star junior end is available and just so happened to move right before the playoffs?

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I know there is some rule if you transfer to a private school you can't compete in any sports for a year. Supposedly to prevent recruiting from happening. I had no clue you could transfer mid-season still and play immediately. We had a kid on our high school team, worked out with us all summer, played in the first several games, and apparently he had been at the cross town rival the year before and his family moved. They enrolled him at our school, and after the first 9 weeks of school, someone found out that the house they moved to was actually zoned for the other school. He had to transfer back over to that school, and I don't think he was able to play football anymore. He got to play basketball since that season hadn't started yet, but there was at least something in place in the 90s in Alabama that wouldn't allow him to play for two schools in the same season.