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Where the John Odoh issue stands as of this afternoon

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A couple of additional people gave me a call back today and provided some additional information on the John Odoh story.

Odoh is the center from Hill College, who signed with UNT in the early period and later parted ways with the school after Johnny Jones left for LSU and was replaced by Tony Benford.

UNT ended up signing Keith Coleman, another top-rated JUCO center, to take the place of Odoh. Benford came out fine in the end and filled a huge void in UNT's lineup with the 6-10 sophomore who has three years of eligibility left.

A few people have implied that the reason UNT and Odoh have parted ways is not because he does not want to play for the school, but rather because he would not qualify academically.

Odoh has some summer school classes he has to take to finish his two-year degree and qualify to play at the Division I level next year. That's not unusual. UNT has had football players transfer in from junior colleges who were finishing up their two-year degrees until practically the start of two-a-days over the last several years. Odoh is expected to finish without any problem.

The suggestion that Jones had been trying to convince Odoh to back out of his commitment to UNT to play for the Tigers has also been out there

Jones denied that was the case this morning.

Read more: http://meangreenblog.dentonrc.com/archives/2012/05/where-the-john-odoh-issue-stan.html

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The question that still remains is did Benford prefer Coleman over Odoh or was Coleman a fallback because Odoh refused to come here OR did fear of Odoh finishing up his course work ultimately lead to this chain of events. We may never know.

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The question that still remains is did Benford prefer Coleman over Odoh or was Coleman a fallback because Odoh refused to come here OR did fear of Odoh finishing up his course work ultimately lead to this chain of events. We may never know.

But can we blame RV to make us feel better :thumbsu:

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