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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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Originally published on SECRant.com

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Wee Bey Brice•72 months

Good...Nice to see we aren't letting him go to our two rivals.

Solo Cam•72 months

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

spslayto•72 months

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

Deuces•72 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•72 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.

Hangit•72 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•72 months

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

Hangit•72 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.

Dam Guide•72 months

This really shows these people aren't scholars, if education mattered, this guy could choose where he wanted to go to college after he graduated and play anywhere if he was still eligible.

19•72 months

Not scholars?? Looking to get grad school paid for with an athletic scholly is dumb, eh?

SECdragonmaster•72 months

Petty of sabben

Erin Go Bragh•72 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•72 months

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

Black n Gold•72 months

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

SAINTS0321•72 months

Don't train the enemy

Lordofwrath88•72 months

Nope

Goombaw•72 months

See Antwuan Jackson for Auburn, Willie Allen for LSU, and I'm sure there are many others if I wanted to spend more time looking them up. I don't support the practice, I think it makes the school and the coach look bad, but acting like this is unusual is hypocritical.

B2 Bomber•72 months

The two examples you gave are not the same as this kid... he is a grad transfer.

Central Tiger•72 months

Either you don’t realize that Antwuan Jackson and Willie Allen were undergrads, or you simply don’t understand the meaning of the word “hypocritical”.

Goombaw•72 months

If anything, the examples I gave are more egregious, such as denying a kid you redshirted from transferring to TCU or Ohio State even though neither of those are future opponents of your team.

idlewatcher•72 months

This is like a jaded boyfriend. I don't want to be with you, but at the same time, I don't want you to be with anyone else. After your commitment to the school is over, they should be free to go as they please.

Lordofwrath88•72 months

wrong. literally ANYWHERE else, even in the SEC, just not those two crazy bastards.

DEG•72 months

Grammar check in the title.

GeauxGriz•72 months

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

Warfarer•72 months

Alabama fans, is this kid good (as in, did he start)? I don't follow Bama football anymore than I have to but I have never heard of him. I don't really blame Saban for using this rule against his two big rivals if he is good.

imjustafatkid•72 months

I feel like I keep up with Alabama football pretty well, but I don't know this guy.

MykTide•72 months

He'd be the 2nd string center this year most likely.

Warfarer•72 months

@myktide ok so he is a solid roster depth guy. I don't blame Saban for not signing off on the kid to go to a rival school that needs quality offensive linemen.

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pellietigersaint•72 months

saban you little count.......

Lordofwrath88•72 months

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

Fearthehat0307•72 months

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

CP3LSU25•72 months

emanresu•72 months

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

starsandstripes•72 months

Hard to fathom a kid wanting to go from Bama to AU or vice versa. What's wrong with this kid? Also, insert video of that Bama fan that hates the Vols. He should just transfer to Florida. They seem to have the biggest dumpster fire on the OL over the past few years.

Dam Guide•72 months

Uh, he wants an education from a different institution. Lots of people who go for graduate degrees transfer Universities to diversify their learning experience. It has nothing to do with football or idiotic fan rivalries. Only a moron would not see the value in variety of your education.

Lordofwrath88•72 months

"he wants an education from a different institution" then go to the countless other NCAA schools that offer every major Auburn or Tennessee has as well. We're not stopping anyone from going to Cornell or Illinois

beauchristopher•72 months

Saban is such a prick

SAINTS0321•72 months

No..he just isn't stupid

19•72 months

...half-pint bitch. -Ice Cube

reo45•72 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•72 months

Don't train the enemy success 101

Lordofwrath88•72 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

SAINTS0321•72 months

He's doing to be a duck

SAINTS0321•72 months

Helll freaking no .train the enemy in the spring and face off in the fall...

Giantkiller•72 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•72 months

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

Dam Guide•72 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•72 months

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

MrKnowItAll•72 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•72 months

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

BoogerSykes•72 months

This is what happens when you dance with the devil

Lordofwrath88•72 months

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

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