BeamerBall.com reported Thursday that former Virginia Tech linebacker-turned-defensive end Jake Johnson will transfer to the University of South Alabama, which only began playing collegiate football last season. USA will join the Sunbelt Conference in 2013.
Johnson, a rising junior, was a highly touted linebacker coming out of high school, but struggled to adjust to the college game. After starting eight games in the 2009 season, he was replaced by redshirt freshman Lyndell Gibson and never regained his starting job. During the off-season, he was moved to defensive end, but the experiment was short lived and Johnson later announced he would transfer.
South Alabama played a seven-game schedule last season against Hargrave Military Academy, Army Prep, Georgia Military Junior College, Louisburg (N.C.) Junior College, Fork Union Military Academy, Milford (N.Y.) Academy and Huntington (Ala.) College. All seven games were played in Mobile, Ala., where South Alabama is located. The Jaguars won all seven games.
The Jags play a 10-game schedule in 2010, with seven games at home, but the level competition improves, and will improve against the following season as the fledgling program heads toward Sunbelt Conference membership.
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