I stood in the stairwell of the Yard House restaurant in downtown San Antonio earlier this month and had a lengthy phone conversation with Horace McCoy, the father of five-star athlete Bru McCoy.

At dinner, I had just heard a rumor. That McCoy was going to commit to USC at the All-American Bowl a few days later but if then-offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury took another job in the offseason, McCoy would consider entering the transfer portal for his other favorite – Texas.

Horace McCoy did not confirm nor deny the rumor but he did laugh and say that was not the plan at the moment.

A few weeks later, that’s exactly what happened. The Santa Ana (Calif.) Mater Dei prospect has decided to transfer from USC and head to Texas after Kingsbury left USC a few days after McCoy’s commitment to accept the Arizona Cardinals head coaching job.

And so at Rivals.com, because of McCoy’s decision, a new recruiting rule has been implemented that will determine which class the five-star – and others in the same situation in the future – will count toward.

“We’re instituting what we’re calling the Bru McCoy Rule, which is anybody who transfers between the early signing period or early enrollment and the second signing period counts toward the class they transfer to,” Rivals.com National Recruiting Director Mike Farrell said.

“This is the first time that we know that this has ever happened. This is a product not only of the early signing period because even if he was an early enrollee this would have happened. It’s important because for regular transfers they have to go to JUCO for us to get a new evaluation on them because they’re so far removed from their high school days. In this case, we just got a new evaluation on him in early January.

“We know what we’re dealing with here as far as a player and because the transfer happened so fast from the time he signed to the time he transferred it would be ridiculous for us to not count him in the Texas class. It was literally a few weeks.”