Three Carousels?    

   You know about coaching carousels. Each football season ends with several head coaches and assistants being fired or otherwise moving to other colleges. 

   Now, there's a quarterback carousel. Most non-quarterback stars excel - eyeing a career in the NFL - as one among several top prospects on their college team.

   Quarterbacks have to be No. 1, or they don't play much. In 2014, Ohio State was an exception. Down to their third string quarterback, they won the national championship anyway, and the healthy survivor got drafted.

   Big time programs collect as many 4 and 5-star recruits as they can. Those "great" quarterbacks relegated to backup are taking a hike of a different kind; they are transferring.

   National champion Clemson is losing two quarterbacks, to Northwestern and Missouri. OSU collects one from Georgia, while losing one to Miami. 

   Another Georgia QB is now at Washington, a former Alabama starter goes to Oklahoma, and Florida State adds a QB from Louisville. 

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    Meanwhile, our Views By the Sea scouting staff has discovered that second-string mascots have a carousel. Ha ha.  

   Michigan State's backup spartan transferred to the University of Tampa, where he can wear the same costume. Northwestern's No. 2 wildcat will be at home in Arizona. 

    Minnesota's reserve gopher is upgrading to trojan at USC; Notre Dame's No. 2 leprechaun will be a duck at Miami, while Oregon's newest duck arrived from Ohio State, having turned in his Brutus Buckeye costume.

   Penn State's No. 2 lion will add tiger stripes, hoping to become No. 1 at Auburn. 

   NCAA transfer rules may dog some of the above. And Navy's goat will have to serve his 5-year tour of duty. 

       Jimmy