HOUSTON -- Texas defensive tackle signee Du'Vonta Lampkin’s football fate could be determined soon, though it seems unlikely that the three-star prospect will be on the 40 Acres this fall.

Lampkin is awaiting a ruling from the National Letter of Intent committee after appealing for a release from the letter of intent he signed with Texas on Feb. 4, according to his mother, Vanessa Lampkin. The family asked Texas for a release from the NLI this summer and that request was denied last month, she said Wednesday.

Du'Vonta Lampkin, a 6-foot-4, 307-pound defensive tackle from Houston Cypress Falls High School, hasn’t been able to enroll at Texas because of a missing foreign language requirement on his transcript. Vanessa Lampkin spoke with reporters on Wednesday in an attempt to clear the air amid rumors and accusations that Du'Vonta purposely failed to fulfill the requirement in order to get out of the letter of intent and sign with another FBS program.

"Totally false," she said.

Du'Vonta, who attended Wednesday’s press conference, declined to comment about the matter.

Both parties have until Friday to submit documentation to the NLI appeals committee. Vanessa Lampkin said she expects a decision from the committee before the end of July. If the Lampkins win the appeal and Du'Vonta is released from his NLI, they will seek opportunities at other schools that might have scholarships available and are able to get Lampkin enrolled in time for the fall semester.

Since not all colleges have a foreign language requirement for admissions, those that don't would be among Lampkin's potential options.

"Currently our plan is to wait to see what the committee decides," Vanessa Lampkin said. "And from there we'll be scrambling to find out who has a scholarship and who doesn't."

Should the committee deny the appeal, delaying Du'Vonta's enrollment for a semester is not an option, she said. Junior colleges could be a potential option, she said, but not their preference.

"If there are no available scholarships or there’s not a school that’s willing to take him, then junior college is an option ... but that's last for us," she said.

According to his mother, Du'Vonta is qualified academically through the NCAA Clearinghouse. The hang-up stalling his enrollment at Texas is a second year of foreign language credit. Du'Vonta recently completed the first year of credit (Spanish 1B), she said, but there's not enough time before college classes begin in August to complete the second year of the requirement, which would equate two classes (Spanish 2A and Spanish 2B).

She said the family realized in November that Du'Vonta was missing the needed requirement and he began working toward completing it then.

When the Lampkin family met in January to discuss possibly going to an out-of-state college that didn't have that foreign language requirement, Du'Vonta expressed that he still desired to go to Texas and wanted to do what was necessary to make it happen. Vanessa Lampkin said her son wanted to go to Texas and that they aren’t upset with the school or the coaches.

"We're not angry at Texas at all," she said. "They haven't said they're angry [at us]. I know that they're disappointed, due to the fact that Du'Vonta was their only defensive tackle in the 2015 class. They have always told me how important Du’Vonta was to them."

The Lampkins haven't had contact with other colleges throughout this process, Vanessa Lampkin said. She has been in regular communication this summer with Texas defensive coordinator Vance Bedford and most recently spoke to him last week, she said. The last time she talked to head coach Charlie Strong was in June.

Texas has been silent on the matter and last month, while at a speaking engagement in Houston, Strong declined to comment on the situation when asked about Du'Vonta's status.

Vanessa felt it important to clear the air because of rumors about her son and criticism directed toward him throughout this process after Du'Vonta told a reporter that he wasn’t going to attend Texas and posted this statement on his Twitter account.

Thank you Longhorn nation pic.twitter.com/QcGEPjye85

— BamBam Forever❤️ (@DeeChilllin) May 30, 2015

At the time, Lampkin admitted he might instead attend Oklahoma. Since then, his mother said, some fans "have been very nasty" to the signee.

"I just want the world to understand that Du'Vonta has done everything he possibly could do to be successful and to be able to attend the University of Texas," she said. "When he figured out that it wasn't an option, it did something to him. I watched him. It broke my heart, even when he had to tell his family on his graduation day that he wouldn't be going there, it broke his heart, because that’s where he really wanted to go."

If by some chance the opportunity to attend Texas presents itself, would Du'Vonta go?

"That's a question you’d have to ask Du'Vonta," Vanessa Lampkin said.