EXCERPT:PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Sports Network) - A transfer energizes a fanbase like little else during the offseason in the Football Championship Subdivision.
If their favorite school is willing to take on such a newcomer from a Bowl Subidivision program, fans reason that he must be a special player and will make an impact without any doubt.
Following are FBS-to-FCS transfers to watch this season:
Lynden Trail, OLB, Norfolk State (from Florida) - Trail needs to start making news on the field rather than off it. The defending MEAC champion Spartans think he can after switching him from defensive end to a 6-7, 250-pound outside linebacker during spring practice. Trail drew ire over a MySpace photo of him in eighth grade in gang apparel. He also was arrested on an assault charge this spring. As a player, he never took the field at Florida, but the Miami resident is the most highly recruited player in Norfolk State's Division I era.
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