Florida’s 7’9 Olivier Rioux To Portal

ZaytovenCat · Tuesday at 10:34 AM

Since we have guys here wanting to go after everyone I figured this would be of interest. Let’s lock him up along with Deshaun Ruffin.

A starting lineup with a 5’9 PG and 7’9 C would be beautiful!

Olivier Rioux, Florida's 7-foot-9 center, enters transfer portal

Olivier Rioux, the Florida Gators' 7-foot-9 center and the tallest player in NCAA in college basketball history, has entered the transfer portal.

www.espn.com

megablue · Tuesday at 10:43 AM

He needs to step down in his career, at least for now. He is seriously deficient in basketball skill level at this time. He is very raw.
He needs to go to a mid-major, if not even lower, but with a team with a big that he can practice against.
He needs to simply go somewhere to get playing time in actual games ... probably at least ten (10) minutes a game, if not more.
It appears he only played sixteen (16) minutes all year, appearing in only eleven (11) games:

Olivier Rioux College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Olivier Rioux - Stats, Game Logs, Splits, and much more

www.sports-reference.com

BBNUK4Life · Tuesday at 10:44 AM

SkyPrince · Tuesday at 10:46 AM

A poor man's Neil Fingleton.

simnalecho · Tuesday at 10:47 AM

He should go to Purdue.

preacherfan · Tuesday at 10:55 AM

You can't teach 7+ feet!

MegaBlue05 · Tuesday at 10:58 AM

Not a single burnt out lightbulb would get past this guy!!

Bugs092056 · Tuesday at 10:59 AM

Maybe he needs to get on with his life's work

JonathanW2 · Tuesday at 10:59 AM

megablue said:
He needs to step down in his career, at least for now. He is seriously deficient in basketball skill level at this time. He is very raw.
He needs to go to a mid-major, if not even lower, but with a team with a big that he can practice against.
He needs to simply go somewhere to get playing time in actual games ... probably at least ten (10) minutes a game, if not more.
It appears he only played sixteen (16) minutes all year, appearing in only eleven (11) games:

Olivier Rioux College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Olivier Rioux - Stats, Game Logs, Splits, and much more

www.sports-reference.com

Agree with ALL of that.

wldctky · Tuesday at 11:18 AM

ZaytovenCat said:
Since we have guys here wanting to go after everyone I figured this would be of interest. Let’s lock him up along with Deshaun Ruffin.

A starting lineup with a 5’9 PG and 7’9 C would be beautiful!

Olivier Rioux, Florida's 7-foot-9 center, enters transfer portal

Olivier Rioux, the Florida Gators' 7-foot-9 center and the tallest player in NCAA in college basketball history, has entered the transfer portal.

www.espn.com

he should transfer down to a low major conference where he would get playing time

Blue Jesus · Tuesday at 11:21 AM

ZaytovenCat said:
Since we have guys here wanting to go after everyone I figured this would be of interest. Let’s lock him up along with Deshaun Ruffin.

A starting lineup with a 5’9 PG and 7’9 C would be beautiful!

Olivier Rioux, Florida's 7-foot-9 center, enters transfer portal

Olivier Rioux, the Florida Gators' 7-foot-9 center and the tallest player in NCAA in college basketball history, has entered the transfer portal.

www.espn.com

I hope he goes somewhere that he can get actual minutes, I want to see a 7'9" clunker in action, even if it's D2.

TheApostleSaulSmith · Tuesday at 11:24 AM

Bugs092056 said:
Maybe he needs to get on with his life's work

Barnum and Bailey might be hiring

kywildcat1021979 · Tuesday at 11:25 AM

ZaytovenCat said:
Since we have guys here wanting to go after everyone I figured this would be of interest. Let’s lock him up along with Deshaun Ruffin.

A starting lineup with a 5’9 PG and 7’9 C would be beautiful!

Olivier Rioux, Florida's 7-foot-9 center, enters transfer portal

Olivier Rioux, the Florida Gators' 7-foot-9 center and the tallest player in NCAA in college basketball history, has entered the transfer portal.

www.espn.com

Don't tell Pope beautiful because that would be 4 million dollars beautiful to him.....

Bugs092056 · Tuesday at 11:26 AM

TheApostleSaulSmith said:
Barnum and Bailey might be hiring

Seriously, he dunked recently and it was a whole article. Call up Guinness

PoopooPeePee · Tuesday at 12:46 PM

Pope about to dish out 6m of NIL.

*Fox2Monk* · Tuesday at 1:02 PM

ZaytovenCat said:
Since we have guys here wanting to go after everyone I figured this would be of interest. Let’s lock him up along with Deshaun Ruffin.

A starting lineup with a 5’9 PG and 7’9 C would be beautiful!

Olivier Rioux, Florida's 7-foot-9 center, enters transfer portal

Olivier Rioux, the Florida Gators' 7-foot-9 center and the tallest player in NCAA in college basketball history, has entered the transfer portal.

www.espn.com

He is the least skilled and slowest moving big man I’ve ever seen.

Old Blue Fart · Tuesday at 1:12 PM

Kid is getting a free education, something that will be useful later in life since he will not be in the NBA, probably getting NIL money, making contacts for later in life after college. Is there no loyalty left anywhere?

It would not surprise me in a couple years when they announce the new words for that years dictionary, they do not announce the removal of the word "loyalty" since it means nothing these days.

Why would a coach want to even try to build a team like this.
Reminds me when I was painting and my son in law asked about my brushes and when I told him a few of them are several years old, he respond why buy good ones, just get a throw away one.

BigBluefoot · Tuesday at 1:13 PM

*Fox2Monk* said:
He is the least skilled and slowest moving big man I’ve ever seen.

That's because he is the biggest big man we've ever seen. He is 7' 9" for crying out loud. He's lucky he can walk, much less run and be coordinated at it.

*Fox2Monk* · Tuesday at 1:14 PM

BigBluefoot said:
That's because he is the biggest big man we've ever seen. He is 7' 9" for crying out loud. He's lucky he can walk, much less run and be coordinated at it.

I agree. Most guys who even approach his height are the same way. Humans are not built to be that tall for sure.

preacherfan · Tuesday at 1:54 PM

So, does anyone know why Golden had him on the roster?

megablue · Tuesday at 2:43 PM

preacherfan said:
So, does anyone know why Golden had him on the roster?

Not sure ... was he a preferred walk-on, by chance ??

TheApostleSaulSmith · Tuesday at 2:44 PM

preacherfan said:
So, does anyone know why Golden had him on the roster?

Because he's f*cking 8 feet tall. I'd take a waiver on him based on that alone

preacherfan · Tuesday at 2:49 PM

megablue said:
Not sure ... was he a preferred walk-on, by chance ??

I looked it up and you are correct. He is a preferred walk-on. Now it makes sense. With all the problems we had playing against height this season, I wouldn't have minded him at least being there for practice.

TheKentuckyKid · Tuesday at 3:07 PM

preacherfan said:
You can't teach 7+ feet!

S A W F T

Bowfreak. · Tuesday at 3:38 PM

TheApostleSaulSmith said:
Because he's f*cking 8 feet tall. I'd take a waiver on him based on that alone

LOL. This cracked me up!

KyKevin · Thursday at 9:32 PM

TheApostleSaulSmith said:
Because he's f*cking 8 feet tall. I'd take a waiver on him based on that alone

8ft of

But get that f.ucker for breeding purpose's

*Fox2Monk* · Thursday at 9:55 PM

KyKevin said:
8ft of
But get that f.ucker for breeding purpose's

Put him in a horse stable.

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