MOULTRIE — Vance Cuff went to Athens on Monday expecting to enroll in summer school and prepare to begin his University of Georgia football career.

Instead, he returned to Moultrie unsure what his football future will be.

Cuff signed a letter of intent with Georgia in February, but found later that he was two core courses short of acceptance by the NCAA Clearinghouse.

He made up one course in summer school, but both he and school officials hoped an oral/written communication speech class, which was on the NCAA list of denied courses, would be approved as a core course, giving him the required 14.

Colquitt County head football coach Tim Cokely said Monday that the course appeared on the approved list of approved core courses on Colquitt County High’s Form 48H on Monday, July 2, leading him and Cuff to believe that the former Packers receiver/defensive back would be eligible to play at Georgia this fall.

Cokely said he even received a call from the compliance official at the University of Georgia, congratulating him on having the course approved.

“He told me, ‘We’re looking forward to having Vance up here,’” Cokely said.

But, Cokely said, at 3:30 p.m. Monday, as Cuff was trying to enroll in summer school, the oral/written communication/speech class was suddenly moved from the approved list of courses to the denied list, leaving Cuff one core course short of the necessary 14.

Cokely said school officials contacted NCAA officials on Monday to find out why the course was on the approved list for six days, but was then moved back to the denied list.

He said he has not received a satisfactory answer.

Cokely said the same course is on the approved list of core courses at several other schools, including Houston County, Tift County and Coffee.

“It makes no sense,” Cokely said Monday. “Vance should be up there working with the team.”

Cokely said the NCAA decision could leave Cuff with few options. He said that it was his understanding that a prep school can only be used to improve a player’s grade point average or test score, not get a core subject.

Junior college appears to be his only other option, Cokely said.

Cokely said Colquitt County Principal Bob Jones appealed the of the course last month.