Eloy Vargas
Kevin Brockway of the Gainesville Sun reports that reserve Florida center Eloy Vargas has left the Gators and is visiting Kentucky this weekend.
An excerpt:
Vargas will be granted his release from his UF scholarship and is visiting Kentucky this weekend, according to a source close to the program. Vargas also posted on his Twitter page that he “will be takin a visit to Kentucky Wildcats this weekend.”
Florida coach Billy Donovan acknowledged before his Ocala tip-off club banquet Wednesday that Vargas was dealing with some academic difficulties. Another source confirmed Friday that Vargas would not have been academically eligible for the fall semester.
Brockway also reports that Vargas is close to UK assistant Orlando Antigua. The 6-foor-10 Vargas played just nine games last year as a freshman for the Gators.
Now he is raiding Florida?
The word is that Kentucky is already looking for a ‘body double’ to attend classes for this young man. If he’s any good we certainly want to make sure he’s eligible.
Of course, we know that Coach Cal is only going after STUDENT/athletes so we won’t have to worry about that bad old institution, the NCAA, looking into any of our players eligiblity.