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05-08-2007, 06:23 PM
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Hello everyone! It's great to see the huge fans that tOSU has supporting them. My son has been overwhelmed at all of the kind posts. We live in Southern California, about 35 minutes east of Disneyland. Most of the HS football around here is D1, although we do have alot of divisions up and down the coast. I'm in my 22nd year coaching and my school placed 6 kids (Div. 1a, II, and III) in NCAA on schoolarship this season. We in fact have a huge tOSU fan that will be playing HB for us this season that will enroll at Ohio State on academic schoolarship (his lifelong dream was to go to tOSU) a year from now. He's a bit undersized for the NCAA or he'd walk on there. He'll be an All league RB though for us.
Anyhow, in our area there is a weight limit on kids to play youth football. For example, my boy playing in the video is 10 years old and is in 4th grade. Because of his size, He is playing on the video with the kids in 5th, 6th, 7th grade in the clips (ages 11,12, and 13). The kids have to weigh in once at the start of the season, then if they make weight they can play any position. Codi is a pretty special player and he's even learning to be a leader, which was a challenge always playing with older boys. As you can see though, he is more than holding his own so far. He usually plays FB and DT, although he has played some MLB. I'm glad you all are enjoying his clips....thanks again for all the kind words! I'll add a few more nice pancakes or runs on the clip from time to time!
BTW - I'm definately working on saving to send him to the Buckeye camp. I'll keep my eye on it! If anyone has links to the Buckeye camps, please put them here and I'll look it all over and try to get him there! |
Kind of like last year when i (an eighth grader) started on a team filled with HS frosh and sophomores, and played against a few juniors, it is very hard to be a leader. Tell your son I said keep up the good work! it would be nice to play for Ohio State wit him as my teammate.
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05-09-2007, 12:08 PM
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http://ccfl.leaguepulse.com/files/Codi44.wmv
A few more plays added since the original post. Still at Fullback making a few pancake blocks.
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05-09-2007, 04:50 PM
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Originally Posted by DOLFANMIKE
Hello everyone! It's great to see the huge fans that tOSU has supporting them. My son has been overwhelmed at all of the kind posts. We live in Southern California, about 35 minutes east of Disneyland. Most of the HS football around here is D1, although we do have alot of divisions up and down the coast. I'm in my 22nd year coaching and my school placed 6 kids (Div. 1a, II, and III) in NCAA on schoolarship this season. We in fact have a huge tOSU fan that will be playing HB for us this season that will enroll at Ohio State on academic schoolarship (his lifelong dream was to go to tOSU) a year from now. He's a bit undersized for the NCAA or he'd walk on there. He'll be an All league RB though for us.
Anyhow, in our area there is a weight limit on kids to play youth football. For example, my boy playing in the video was 10 years old and is in 4th grade. Because of his size, He is playing on the video with the kids in 5th, 6th, 7th grade in the clips (ages 11,12, and 13). The kids have to weigh in once at the start of the season, then if they make weight they can play any position. Codi is a pretty special player and he's even learning to be a leader, which was a challenge always playing with older boys. As you can see though, he is more than holding his own so far. He usually plays FB and DT, although he has played some MLB. I'm glad you all are enjoying his clips....thanks again for all the kind words! I'll add a few more nice pancakes or runs on the clip from time to time! BTW- since the video was made Codi just turned 11 and now is 5'4 and 142 pounds. So he's jumped up an inch and 22 pounds.
BTW - I'm definately working on saving to send him to the Buckeye camp. I'll keep my eye on it! If anyone has links to the Buckeye camps, please put them here and I'll look it all over and try to get him there!
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Damn, that's a big kid you got there, DOLFANMIKE!
I'm glad he's getting to carry the ball now, because he more than likely will grow out of that and into a lineman.
He already has the hardest thing there is to teach, and that is the "want to" to hit somebody and put them on their back. Cudos to you for playing him up to an appropriate level of competition.
Sure hope you and Codi can make it to a camp sooner rather than later!
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05-09-2007, 10:47 PM
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Damn, that's a big kid you got there, DOLFANMIKE!
I'm glad he's getting to carry the ball now, because he more than likely will grow out of that and into a lineman.
He already has the hardest thing there is to teach, and that is the "want to" to hit somebody and put them on their back. Cudos to you for playing him up to an appropriate level of competition.
Sure hope you and Codi can make it to a camp sooner rather than later!
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Thank you! Our family Dr. thinks Codi is on track for 6'5 275 by the time he is a senior in HS...so if that is that case you'll be right on the OL assessment. Heck, he's already in a size 10 1/2 shoe. In fact, two seasons ago his team had lots of RB's and few OL so he played OT that year and played very well. For now though he offers so much blocking and running inside that FB is his primary spot.
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05-09-2007, 10:54 PM
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05-13-2007, 08:01 PM
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Looks like a pretty nasty future MLB. If he doesn't hit the 275 mark, and ends up around 250 or so, that would be a pretty fun position for a kid like him.
Or maybe DE?
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05-13-2007, 08:31 PM
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Besides Football, I've had the opportunity to watch Codi play BB and he pretty much dominates the boards. Yeah, he's definitely not afraid of contact but he doesn't have a mean bone in his body either. He's a good natured, easy going kid off the field, but a beast on the field/court. He's also an unselfish player and so I'm sure he'll be happy whatever position he plays.
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05-14-2007, 11:08 PM
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Besides Football, I've had the opportunity to watch Codi play BB and he pretty much dominates the boards. Yeah, he's definitely not afraid of contact but he doesn't have a mean bone in his body either. He's a good natured, easy going kid off the field, but a beast on the field/court. He's also an unselfish player and so I'm sure he'll be happy whatever position he plays.
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Sounds great, but do us all a favor and get him a tOSU Football jersey...... 
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05-15-2007, 11:04 AM
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Sounds great, but do us all a favor and get him a tOSU Football jersey...... |
LOL. Its in the works.
Actually, Codi is on the Air Force Academy's Junior watch list in BBall but I think his future is definitely in football.
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