Check this out:
"Section 4155(b) of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, 20 U.S.C. 7165(b), requires each State to assure the Secretary of Education that it has a procedure in place to facilitate the transfer of disciplinary records with respect to a suspension or expulsion of a student by a local educational agency to any private or public elementary or secondary school in which the student is subsequently enrolled or seeks, intends, or is instructed to enroll."
Had Rowan bothered to ask, the Iowa State coaches/athletic department would have been required by law to release Seth's disciplinary records. All the other transfer schools probably picked up the phone and asked the question, maybe that's why Seth couldn't find a landing spot despite reaching out to so many other schools