Written by Chantel Jennings at ESPN.com
In December, college football fans were stunned when a flurry of transfers — many of them quarterbacks who were eligible to play immediately — took over the news cycle.
Trevor Knight was going from Oklahoma to Texas A&M, where he could play right away. And Oregon, for a second straight year, locked up an FCS star, Montana State’s Dakota Prukop, who’s the favorite to take over the Ducks’ high-powered offense.
Such moves have created a tension between recruiting for the long-term (blue-chip high school quarterbacks) and looking for the quick fix (fifth-year grad transfers). So where do we go from here?
Let’s start at the beginning and look at the future NFL star responsible for shaking up the idea of where schools could look to find a starting quarterback.
THE RUSSELL WILSON EFFECT
Though it’s former NC State and Wisconsin quarterback Russell Wilson who often gets the credit for bringing the graduate transfer rule to the forefront of college football players, coaches and fans’ minds, the credit might be due elsewhere.
After all, it was Mike Glennon who got the job that forced Wilson out and made him look at other options on the college football landscape. Without Glennon, maybe there would be no Wilson Effect.
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