[SF_Cardinal_Fan]

With the glut of tackles we had coming in (Bright and Hall returning, Hamilton coming off his redshirt, and Little and Sarell coming in and expected to play as true fresh), Tucker was offered an opportunity to move over to guard and compete with Fanaika to be the second guard (Herbig was also returning).  Tucker lost the battle, and when Little emerged and shifted Bright to Guard, Tucker really didn’t figure to be a big contributor to the OL, and fell off the two-deep.  It wasn’t worth having him use up a year of eligibility just to play spot duty so he was given a chance to redshirt and graduate transfer next year.

BC

By "graduate transfer" you mean he will graduate Stanford this year,  transfer to and take graduate courses at a different University next year while at the same time utilizing a final year eligibility to also play football?
If my understanding above is correct then that is a win-win for everybody involved, including Stanford's current team.
I was formerly a University of San Francisco basketball season ticket holder and recall two players graduating and then using a final year of eligibility to play elsewhere. Point guard Cody Doolin went on to play a year at  UNLV and forward Marc Tollefsen played his final year at the University of Arizona.

[SF_Cardinal_Fan]

With the glut of tackles we had coming in (Bright and Hall returning, Hamilton coming off his redshirt, and Little and Sarell coming in and expected to play as true fresh), Tucker was offered an opportunity to move over to guard and compete with Fanaika to be the second guard (Herbig was also returning).  Tucker lost the battle, and when Little emerged and shifted Bright to Guard, Tucker really didn’t figure to be a big contributor to the OL, and fell off the two-deep.  It wasn’t worth having him use up a year of eligibility just to play spot duty so he was given a chance to redshirt and graduate transfer next year.

BC

By "graduate transfer" you mean he will graduate Stanford this year,  transfer to and take graduate courses at a different University next year while at the same time utilizing a final year eligibility to also play football?
If my understanding above is correct then that is a win-win for everybody involved, including Stanford's current team.
I was formerly a University of San Francisco basketball season ticket holder and recall two players graduating and then using a final year of eligibility to play elsewhere. Point guard Cody Doolin went on to play a year at  UNLV and forward Marc Tollefsen played his final year at the University of Arizona.