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Welcome coach Rod Ojong from Austin Peay

Twitter is a powerful thing. Welcome coach Ojong.

apaladin wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 13, 2019 12:59 pm

Twitter is a powerful thing. Welcome coach Ojong.

Now just need a tweet about a safeties coach

Broke that news days ago without a single source besides twitter

This is from the press release when Ojong was announced as the CBs coach at APU in 2017 (https://letsgopeay.com/news/2018/7/26/a ... h=football)

"Rod Ojong is an unbelievable football coach," Healy said. "He has great knowledge, he relates really well to the players; he develops deep, genuine relationships with them, they respond to him. He's energetic, he's passionate.

"He comes highly recommended. I had more phone calls from big-name guys about Rod than I had for probably anyone else. I've been extremely impressed with what he's brought to the table."

I also wonder whether this potentially opens up some new recruiting grounds. Ojong played and coached at Monmouth (not the FCS Monmouth), which is in Illinois. He also coached at Memphis, Lindsey Wilson College and Austin Peay. Furman does not spend a lot of time in Northwest Tennesee/Kentucky/Illinois, but that seems to be where his coaching roots are most deeply planted.