South Carolina RB Rahsul Faison's Waiver Will Be 'Luck of the Draw' Per Attorney

South Carolina running back Rahsul Faison's eligibility waiver will be a 'luck of the draw' per a sports attorney.

The South Carolina Gamecocks are just a few months out from starting their 2025 college football season. The program hopes that they will be so with running back Rahsul Faison. The transfer running back submitted a waiver for an extra year of eligibility but has not heard back from the NCAA.

The most infamous example of one of these waivers was Vanderbilt quarterback Deigo Pavia earning an extra year of eligibility this year on the stance of his year in JUCO should not count due to the inability to capitalize on NIL opportunities. However, the rulings on these waivers have been very inconsistent.

"There's law that can go either way," Mitt Winter, a sports law attorney, said. "I think it's very judge-dependent right now. It's a lot of luck of the draw."

South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer spoke with the media earlier in May about his frustrations with the lack of an answer for Faison.

"No and it's getting frustrating to be completely frank," Beamer said. "I understand the NCAA has a lot on their plate but the fact that they have had everything they have needed from us since January and we don't have an answer is frankly disappointing. We've given them everything they needed back in January. They asked for more, we gave them what they needed. They asked for more, we gave them what they needed. We've been in contact with other schools that he played for to get stuff from them that they needed and again I know they have a lot on their plate but the fact that we are now in the middle of May and we still don't have an answer."

Faison started his career in 2019 at Marshall, in 2020 he enrolled in online classes at Lackawanna College where he did not play football, in 2021 he attended Snow College, a junior college in Utah where he didn't appear in any games, in 2022 he played his second season at Snow College where he rushed for rushed for 355 yards on 88 carries and in 2023 he transferred to Utah State where he played the last two seasons.

Faison was brought in with the expectation that he would be the team's starting running back due to the departure of Raheim Sanders. Over the last two seasons, Faison rushed for 1,845 yards on 316 attempts while also averaging 5.8 yards per carry.