As Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorsby works his way through the courts to determine whether or not he can continue to play college football, Tulane football fans can look back and remember the day a situation that was sort of similar happened to them. Well, not including the gambling aspect. That was basketball, and it's a story we'll save for another day.In 1983, as the football season got underway, Jon English, son of Tulane's first-year coach, Wally English, challenged the NCAA's transfer rule by suing the NCAA and the school that hired his dad. The younger English said the NCAA rule in many cases requires transfer students to sit out a year before becoming athletically eligible. English's lawsuit contended he had met the NCAA requirements.In five seasons, English played at Michigan State, Iowa State, and then Tulane. He also attended Allegheny Community College in Pittsburgh and Delgado Junior College in New Orleans. His lawsuit contended he had met the NCAA requirements because Iowa State, where he was the second-string quarterback in 1981 and 1982, was not his first four-year college, and he had the junior college credits necessary to transfer without sitting out a year.According to a Washington Post article in October, 1983: