Football: Even by normal standards, this transfer is ridiculous

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This is one of the more amazing stories I’ve ever heard.

Sophomore Brett Mason, who started this past season at quarterback for Santa Margarita, enrolled at San Clemente on Friday, began football class on Monday and worked out with the quarterbacks on Tuesday.

Then he enrolled at Tesoro on Wednesday.

Mason suffered through the growing pains of 2007 with the Eagles (5-5), who compete in the Trinity League, the Southland’s toughest. He completed 68 of 125 passes (54.4%) with six touchdowns and four interceptions. He paid his dues, and one would think the future would be in his wheelhouse if he stayed at Santa Margarita. Tesoro (7-4) upset San Clemente (7-3-1) and Mission Viejo this season to win the South Coast League title and end Mission’s seven-year reign.

I’ll be curious to know the reason for this series of moves, because they make no football sense. Not with a freshman class behind him that is reputed to be one of the best ever at Santa Margarita. Not with a wide open opportunity to take over for Brad Curtis at San Clemente. And not with Robbie Picazo, already a two-year starter, in place at Tesoro.

Mason is at least the second Eagle to jump ship to Tesoro. Linebacker John Michael Davis played at Orange Lutheran as a freshman, and the past two seasons at Santa Margarita. He is already at Tesoro readying for his senior season.

That’s three teams in four years, but that pales to Mason’s three schools in one week.

-- Martin Henderson

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--Editor Bob: Hey, maybe, just maybe, not all transfers have to do with sports. Maybe.