Maybe he didn't have a choice. In those days, prospects forced to follow the juco route because of academic deficiencies had to be there for two years.
2027 Recruiting Thread
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We are talking about the Big 8 in the 70’s and 80’s. Rules were optional
Chose to be a backup at Oregon rather than a starter for miserable Nebraska. And his dad freaking played there.
Except that a player still had to have a high school (and in this case a junior college) transcript and test scores to the NCAA.
And were those transcripts legit? I mean Dexter Manley made it through Ok St without being able to read. So, do we think the Big 8 was forthcoming with the NCAA with their athletes academic records and eligibility? Bottom line in this conversation is that Rozier had to go to community college before Nebraska due to poor grades, just as Marshall said. We can go back and forth all night, but that was the point of the original conversation. We are splitting hairs now.
And looking the other way when doctoring transcripts was going on.
Weak excuse. Did the staff recruit before psu hired them? Did thy not have any relationships?
Academic records don't flow through the school to the NCAA. And athletes who spend only one year at a junior college don't do so because of unacceptable high school academic credentials.
So Wilson doctored Rozier's transcript making him eligible? Then why did he spend a year at Coffeyville?
That may have been the norm. But Frank Gifford, Jim Taylor and Roger Staubach are among those who spent 1 year only.
Since the NCAA Academic Clearinghouse did not exist, admission requirements were not uniform.