7'9 Olivier Rioux To Redshirt Freshman Season At Florida

Olivier Rioux, a 7-foot-9 freshman, plans to redshirt his freshman season at Florida. College students had chanted for “Oli” to enter each of Florida’s dwelling video games this season.

“I ought to have made that clear [before],” Florida coach Todd Golden stated. “Actually, it is put him in a troublesome state of affairs. He is sitting over there on the finish of video games and everyone’s yelling at him and attempting to get him on the market. They only hadn’t understood that that was our potential plan for him.

“In order that’s the place we’re at at this second. I am not saying that is 100% going to be the plan. We’ll proceed to speak to him and see if he alters what he needs to do. However as of proper now, that is the plan that we’ll have with him as we transfer ahead.”