The Associated Press/file
Notre Dame graduate transfer Malik Zaire’s path to the University of Florida has been cleared by the SEC.
At the SEC spring meetings in Destin on Friday, the league announced it has amended its graduate transfer rule, which will now allow Zaire to enroll at Florida this summer and be eligible in the fall.
According to several reports last week, Zaire had decided he wanted to become a Gator, but that decision could not become official unless the SEC altered its graduate transfer rule.
Zaire would not have been allowed to enroll at UF under the old rule, which prevented schools from taking a graduate transfer for three years if a previous graduate transfer had not shown enough academic progress toward a degree.