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'12 OH DE/OLB Ifeadi Odenigbo (Northwestern Verbal)
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nice i finally hear some good news... really if i was a 18 yr old kid ND is to good to not go.... Also i might help these kids a bit to see us finish games and have hype...
I would love for ND to get him and adding quality depth is a must but you can't blame a lot on the OLB as they didn't have a chance with the D-line getting blown off the line.
IMO he's more of a want pick up rather than a need pick up as I don't see him being a factor next season as there is plenty of talent at Dog OLB already it's just young and need more games. That said I really do hope that ND gets him as his upside is great it's just that he's not a day 1 instant impact type like Noah Spence.
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Dog is deep but Cat is not. Fleming and Filer will graduate this spring, leaving Ishaq as the only returning player currently seeing reps at Cat.
The depth at Dog isn't overly encouraging either. Shembo has struggled and Spond hasn't played. Niklas and Counsell have lots of potential, but neither is ready to produce.
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If he has fast closing speed then he is a need [just like our sleeper, Ben Councell, is]. We must begin to get those fast athletes on the field at OLB. Perkins is another one.
The average top NCAA OLB is 6'2" and around 230-235 pounds. [this average is for Phil Steele's top 50]. Everyone constantly hollering about size needs to get into the 21st century. Alabama has monstrous sized linebackers, but they are freaks who do not exist practically anywhere else --- monster freaks who can still run. If the size/speed thing is not believed, then look instead at LSUs linebackers. Here are the ht/wt for their three deep: 6'0"/227; 6'1"/225; 6'1"/215; 6'2"/221; 6'0"/226; 6'2"/212; 6'1"/200; 6'3"/223; 6'2"/205. Oh no!!! Too small!!! To which Les Miles just smiles apparently. SPEEEEEED gentlemen.
The average top NCAA OLB is 6'2" and around 230-235 pounds. [this average is for Phil Steele's top 50]. Everyone constantly hollering about size needs to get into the 21st century. Alabama has monstrous sized linebackers, but they are freaks who do not exist practically anywhere else --- monster freaks who can still run. If the size/speed thing is not believed, then look instead at LSUs linebackers. Here are the ht/wt for their three deep: 6'0"/227; 6'1"/225; 6'1"/215; 6'2"/221; 6'0"/226; 6'2"/212; 6'1"/200; 6'3"/223; 6'2"/205. Oh no!!! Too small!!! To which Les Miles just smiles apparently. SPEEEEEED gentlemen.
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Wish Spond was able to stay healthy and on the field...
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praying for no turnovers now...lol
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Good article.
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Loved the trip, it was the first college football game he's been to. His mom also loved everything. Said he had to postpone his Stanford visit until December because of playoffs. Atmosphere was great, and said other games he goes to won't be able to match ND/USC.
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Odenigbo's Centerville team plays Jalin Marshall's Middletown team in the first round of the playoffs this weekend. Odenigbo's team just squeaked its way into the playoffs. Should be an interesting game.
The game is at 7 PM Saturday.
The game is at 7 PM Saturday.
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I am hearing that he is high on Stanford, in part, because of their excellent computer science major.
I know we don't recruit negatively, and I know this is not a good sale's pitch, but I am wondering if it has occurred to him how incredibly difficult it would be to compete with Stanford kids in that major while playing a BCS-level D1 sport. Stanford science students are the cream of the crop, and Stanford is among the most prestigious school in that major (up there with MIT). Computer Science majors are notorious for staying up into the wee hours of the night messing around on computers. A lot of the "expertise" in the discipline does not come from simply fulfilling course requirements, but immersing one's self in that world.
Flipped around, its kind of like a kid trying to play BCS football while only taking part in the mandatory team events (no 7 on 7s, off-season lifting, etc.). You could technically do it, but you would be at a huge competitive disadvantage with your teammates. If I were not 100% committed to full-time football, I would not go to, say, Alabama. If I were not 100% committed to computer science, I am not sure I'd go to Stanford.
Long story short, Computer Science and Football at Stanford seems to me like 2 full-time jobs. We had a 4-star player try this in our architecture program. He dropped out to pursue architecture.
Perhaps Ifeadi is aware of this, and is also aware that Stanford minus Harbaugh and Luck is going to be a whole lot different.
I know we don't recruit negatively, and I know this is not a good sale's pitch, but I am wondering if it has occurred to him how incredibly difficult it would be to compete with Stanford kids in that major while playing a BCS-level D1 sport. Stanford science students are the cream of the crop, and Stanford is among the most prestigious school in that major (up there with MIT). Computer Science majors are notorious for staying up into the wee hours of the night messing around on computers. A lot of the "expertise" in the discipline does not come from simply fulfilling course requirements, but immersing one's self in that world.
Flipped around, its kind of like a kid trying to play BCS football while only taking part in the mandatory team events (no 7 on 7s, off-season lifting, etc.). You could technically do it, but you would be at a huge competitive disadvantage with your teammates. If I were not 100% committed to full-time football, I would not go to, say, Alabama. If I were not 100% committed to computer science, I am not sure I'd go to Stanford.
Long story short, Computer Science and Football at Stanford seems to me like 2 full-time jobs. We had a 4-star player try this in our architecture program. He dropped out to pursue architecture.
Perhaps Ifeadi is aware of this, and is also aware that Stanford minus Harbaugh and Luck is going to be a whole lot different.
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This is a poor post...I hope he doesn't think that it would be incredibly difficult to compete with Stanford kids in that major while playing a BCS-level D1 sport
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Why? I think there are some valid points.
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You don't?
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IDK...I guess I'm not the type of person to say that something is to difficult and choose not to do it. If it's something I believe in my heart I want to do then I'll try to do it.
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Sherm - I think you may be drastically underestimating the amount of time, effort and existing knowledge it takes to be successful in that major at Stanford. He may feel as though he can do it, but I doubt that it is realistic to do so.
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How about Chris Stewart last year playing D1 football and being in law school?
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This was my point. Its about hours in the day. Its not that he couldn't compete in one or the other if he set his mind to it, its more along the lines of can you really give both their due?
In contrast, Rhode Scholar Myron Rolle graduated FSU with an exercise science major. Still, he was the #12 kid in the country coming into FSU but ended up a 6th rounder who played one year.
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He was finished with his undergrad, so it's not like he was doing both. He also did zero bar exam prep during the season. You may think this sounds silly, but Stanford's CS program is probably more time consuming than ND law school (pre bar exam prep).
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Law school =/= computer science
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Agreed. To be honest--and I think Chris Stewart is the man--my guess is that he did not do either as well as he could have had he done just one or the other. But my real point was more along the lines of ND Law is not Yale or Harvard law.
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shrug...i guess I might be underestimating CS at Stanford.
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I can't speak for Stanford, but my former roommate who had a 35 on his ACT couldn't cut it in Ohio State's computer science program. And while OSU's program is fine, it doesn't compare to Stanford's or MIT's.