Since he's no longer enrolled, I assume his Loi is voided? Could he go to another school in the spring without sitting out a year of football?
A LOI only pertains to a prospective student athlete attending a NLI member institution for one academic year and that NLI member instruction providing athletic financial aid for that same academic year.
Golson and ND both met that obligation in 2011.
Despite the speculation on Golson's 2013 "academic ineligibility" I don't know that he is. Alledgedly he was discharged from ND for an ND Honor Code violation not GPA deficiency. I am not aware of any NCAA regulation addressing a school's honor code. His overall GPA is assumed to be fine and his semester GPA may be fine as well. If so, he is academically eligible. Even if he GPA was slightly deficient he could remedy that in Summer School ala Katzenmoyer's academic enlightenment one summer at OSU.
He would be a transfer albeit not of his volition nor because of GPA deficiency but he would be subject to NCAA transfer regulations.