On Monday, USF head coach Willie Taggart told reporters that instead of having player names on the back of their football jerseys it would instead say “THE TEAM” on every jersey.
However, a USF spokesman confirmed to the Tampa Bay Times on Tuesday that placing “THE TEAM” on the back of the jerseys violates NCAA Rule 1-4-5. The USF football team will instead join UCF in going without player names on their jerseys in 2014.
The team did not get NCAA approval before coach Willie Taggart confirmed that USF would be wearing the jerseys.
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According to the NCAA rule, “only military service academies may substitute [other] words” on jersey nameplates.
Check out a photo of the proposed USF uniforms below, courtesy of ESPN’s Brett McMurphy.
USF @CoachTaggart going w/”The Team” on back of Bulls’ jerseys this year pic.twitter.com/5SmMz6c1pK
— Brett McMurphy (@McMurphyESPN) August 18, 2014
