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FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2012 file photo, Virginia quarterback Phillip Sims (14) prepares to pass during the first half of an NCAA college football game against Wake Forest at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Va. (AP photo)

-- Though his options aren't as glamorous as they once were, former Alabama quarterback

Phillip Sims

is once again feeling like a recruit.

Sims, who transferred from Alabama to Virginia in 2012 but lasted just one season with the Cavaliers, has narrowed his choices down to "three or four schools" and will sign with one of them at the end of the week,

.

Sims is deciding among a mix of Division I and Division II schools, according to the report. He would have one year of eligibility in Division I and two years in Division II.

The Division I schools are exclusively FBS schools, he told The Pilot. Sims told The Pilot that he would be forced to sit out the 2013 season no matter where he landed.

Sims would not reveal any of the schools that made the penultimate cut.

"It's getting close that time where I need to get back in school," Sims told The Pilot. "I want to find a place I'm comfortable with, a place I can get a degree and do the things I set out to do in the first place."

Sims was forced to leave Virginia in May

. He saw action in all of the Cavaliers' games last season, throwing for 1,263 yards, nine touchdowns and four interceptions, but exited the spring as the Cavaliers' third-string quarterback.

The former four-star recruit spent two seasons and a spring at Alabama before transferring to Virginia. He battled

AJ McCarron

for the starting quarterback job in 2011, but ultimately came up short.

to read the rest of The Pilot's interview with Sims.