California offered a portal defensive player from Notre Dame today. Exciting on its own can someone please explain to me the timeline? I'm still adjusting for these Covid-era players. So he's graduating this year but has 3 left to play. Is that a senior year (for graduating early), plus a grad year, and a residual free Covid year? Also, sorry for posting a tweet from a rival site, I couldn't find another one

Cal has offered Notre Dame transfer defensive lineman Tyson Ford who will graduate in May and have 3 years of remaining eligibility. The Bears added key transfers from the Irish last offseason in WR Tobias Merriweather and DL Aidan Keanaaina. https://t.co/boizBqTYYp

— Cal Rivals (@CalRivals) November 21, 2024

He only played one year at ND. He was granted a medical scholarship this year. Must have had a ton of transferable credits from HS so he getting his degree! But since he only played one year he got three to play. I assume he will have to get a Masters/Grad Cert from here at Cal. \\

oh I think that website shouldn't be linked here.

It should be alright since it's a tweet and not an article or link to their site. Still, I would've preferred not to use it if I could find the same info in another tweet

There's no such thing as a grad transfer anymore.