posted by sportswizuhrd
Grad transfer, would he even be eligible to play at OU? If not, should have just stayed in the draft. Wouldn't have been drafted but wouldn't have hurt his pro chances(stateside or overseas) either.
Zuh? When you're a grad transfer, it means you have athletic eligibility left, but have graduated academically, so you can transfer if you want without having to sit out a year. In Simmon's case, he was a freshman at Houston, then transferred to Ohio, sat out a year via transfer rules and then played the last two (soph/jr athletically; jr/sr academically). Since he'd graduated, but had one year of athletic eligibility left, he transferred to a bigger school, likely looking for more exposure. Have no idea how there'd be a situation where he wasn't eligible to play at Ohio, but could play elsewhere collegiately (barring being kicked off the team, of course, which didn't happen).