How is Taylor playing without sitting out?

[gsu_paintballer]

Title says it all. How is he playing without sitting out a year?

I know it was mentioned somewhere in the threads about him transferring, but I have searched and couldn't find it.

 

[gth816f]

You don't have to sit out a year if you transfer to D1-AA or lower.

 

[GEETEELEE]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if he's graduated from GT (I believe he has) and is going elsewhere for grad school, he doesn't have to sit out. I think.

 

[gsu_paintballer]

You don't have to sit out a year if you transfer to D1-AA or lower.

Louisiana Tech is FBS

 

[Ish]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if he's graduated from GT (I believe he has) and is going elsewhere for grad school, he doesn't have to sit out. I think.

That rule was eliminated the year after it was created.

 

[gth816f]

Louisiana Tech is FBS

GEETEELEE is right.

Bennett, who is expected to graduate from Georgia Tech, isn't a good fit in the offense of new coach Paul Johnson and is looking elsewhere for his final year of eligibility.
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To be eligible this fall, Bennett would have to graduate and enroll in a masters program that isn't offered at Georgia Tech.

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/news?slug=rivals-208383&prov=rivals&type=lgns

 

[Ish]

I'm pretty sure Yahoo! is incorrect. That rule was eliminated the year after they instituted it.

 

[mts315]

I believe the rule is still intact in some form. Part of the rule is still in effect. The requiremnet, I believe, is that the new school offers and the player enrolls in a program which his original school did not have.

 

[GT Ace]

Here ya go

This is how the Shreveport Times explains it in an article about Taylor Bennett's visit to Louisiana Tech:

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080315/SPORTS02/803150348/1026