Ethan Garbers and Puka Nacua left the University of Washington football program this off-season, but where did they really go?
In their social media statements it says UCLA or BYU.
If the rules don’t change – and that could happen this spring – the Redshirt freshman quarterback from Newport Beach, California and the junior wide receiver from Provo, Utah could potentially find themselves in transfer purgatory for the upcoming one College football season is now.
According to Bruins Report Online, the UW prevented Garbers from playing within the conference immediately after the move, which the program successfully did against quarterback Colson Yankoff, who left the Huskies for UCLA in 2019.
The UW was able to forego the request, but has reportedly not been ready so far.
As for Nacua, since the passport catcher is not a graduate transfer, he would have to suspend the coming season at BYU under normal transfer rules.
Your only possible redress is the upcoming NCAA legislation, which will be put to the vote in April and if passed, transfers can be played immediately with no penalty due to the pandemic.
It looks like the 6-foot-3, 215-pound Garbers, whose older brother Chase is California’s starting quarterback, could be idle for two full college seasons if everything is pushed through. He sat there as a red shirt for the huskies.
Nacua, a 6-foot-1,210-pound runabout, moved to BYU with his older brother Samson, who was leaving Utah as a graduate transfer expecting to play together.
However, this will not happen if Puka has to sit out this fall. He missed a third of his first season for the Huskies with a broken foot and suspected the last four-game last year with COVID-19.
Miss another season and he may not be playing a busy schedule until his fourth year as a college player. Nacua appeared in eleven career games with the UW and started six of them.
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