Missouri promotes A.J. Ofodile to fill team's 10th assistant coach slot
The Missouri Tigers have filled the position of their 10th assistant coach by promoting one of their own.
The school announced Monday that the Tigers are promoting A.J. Ofodile from the position of director of recruiting operations to be the team’s 10th assistant coach. He will shift to an on-field role after serving in his previous position for two seasons.
Ofodile came to Mizzou in 2016 after serving as the head coach at Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri. He will assume the on-field role after putting up strong results in recruiting each of the past two seasons.
Ofodile also played TE for Missouri and was a three-time letter winner from 1991-93. He had 73 catches for 851 yards and 6 TDs with the Tigers.
Mizzou Football announced the news with a graphic on Twitter:
This was Odom’s third class. His first class was built by Pinkel, as he was a late hire. This year Missouri had a very strong election to the All SEC freshman team. Does this mean Ofodile should change jobs and start learning a new one? This year a dozen St. Louis recruits highly star rated didn’t even give Missouri a serious sniff. Now a lot of this is foolish self-worship from boys who might not have started at Missouri long term anyway, but one would think there would be a match in there somewhere and maybe more than a group visit week-end and their picture as a floor-covering, should have happened. I have a lot of questions about this move. His son Alex was the number one recruit out of Missouri and instead of loyalty to a team that played for the SEC Championship twice during his high school days in Columbia, he enrolled at a floundering Oregon program. God speed your coaching work at Missouri A.J.. Maybe you understand something about fitness that cardiovascular fitness and false starts that Odom doesn’t get. Let’s hope the the loyalty problem with your son was Missouri’s fault.
I may be wrong but I thought I read where as an assistant on the field allows AJ to recruit outside of Columbia..so I took that as being on the administrative side limited his personal recruiting to local only. But I’m not sure. I am sure he can recruit.
My understanding was that he was the administrator for Mizzou football recruiting. Now the duties could be different from program to program but shouldn’t this job description be notifiying high schools nationwide what positions Missouri wants to fill each class? Then shouldn’t this job be to collect names, send letters and forms, make phone calls, collect responses, and distribute interest news to mizzou coaching staff within NCAA guidelines, and monitor communication, visits info., and report to the AD for NCAA compliance ??? BIG A$$ED JOB, i can tell you from first hand experience. It’s a job that is never done and will wear you down to door-mat level in some programs.
Hey! Wolf! We agree on something! This is a problem. He is the director of recruiting and can’t even shut the borders down. Forget shutting them down, he can’t even close the screen door. He couldn’t even shut the borders of his own living room down. SMH.
We are not asking the same questions. Remember that this year Odile got a 37th ranked class. That’s the same rank as Pinkel won two SEC East Championships. My question, Does Odile get better out-of-state recruits than he gives up as in-states, AND since he seems to be doing fairly well at this job, why change his job description? This is not a statement, it is a real question, I have no idea what Odile will bring to the staff now that somebody else becomes the director of recruiting
And a huge shout out to those thugs playing on the women’s basketball team. I don’t see why teams think my gals are dirty. Gritty is not dirty.
I’m confused on this move
a very mediocre, average move that will make no improvements?
you obviously haven’t been a Mizzou fan for very long.
Please someone tell me which states are able to shut down their borders. Blue bloods have all access thanks to ESPN. And do players want to be in the national spotlight? I’m guessing yes. This is a good move so leave it alone with your constant criticism. Are you sure your one those low down piece of crap jayhawk fans? Let me apologize in advance if that was inaccurate as there is nothing worse than calling someone one of those.
Then let’s just not use that kind of language, okay? I don’t talk about your family and you don’t call me that word, deal?
Yeah, so I’ll admit “shut down the border” is overused and inaccurate, but the point is that we were landing the J-macs, DGBs, T-Becks, Drew Locks, etc. from Missouri (or across the rivers in E St Lou and Johnson County), and now we’re not getting those kids. There was a bumper crop in St Lou and we didn’t land one of them. Remember that day we were chanting all across the country MIZ-DGB? We haven’t had a day like that in a while. I am psyched that Drew is coming back, but what’s next?
I think what has to be next is:
a play-book that uses multiple tight ends
a play-book that uses Crockett and Rountree as backs+receivers in the same snap
a play-book that uses Crockett, and Routree as backs + receivers in the same snap with a Downing draw
signing a tall wide pass catcher
getting a quarterback dual-threat play book in 2-3 series per game with the #2 quarterback
an attack where line coaches and roster are committed to strength and cardiovascular fitness and don’t jump snaps
a quarterback coach who knows what pace, ballistic advantage, deception, and technical soundness are
MOST IMPORTANT AN ATTACK THAT GETS BLOCKERS TO THE POINT OF ATTACK FASTER THAN LINEBACKERS AND DOESN’T GIVE AWAY DIRECTION.
I’m with you on the fundamentally sound stuff. Discipline, no penalties, gap responsibility. And I’m fine with the scheme—in fact I really don’t care about scheme. You have to either recruit the horses or develop them. Or be Bama and do both. But to think that your WRs can look and act the same today that they did two and three years ago and that you’ll be successful is nuts. To think that guys like Lee and Beisel never became household names and a walk on from Kearney can be your defensive leader—I mean great story, but he should have been a great story as a role player not your star LB. To think that Beckner might be the last D-Line-Zou’er, we need to build a solid coaching staff and recruit better. Not trying to be doomsday, but I’m just saying adding one or two of those Saint Louisians would have been nice.
Odom is a line backer. But the most successful secondary man in Modern Missouri and arguably SEC history was Brothers. Find as many of those as we can and don’t even worry where they line up. Big and horsey is not the same as good (Biesel, Schrier) Athletic and nimble is better, Brothers and the Kearney Kid.
Oh yeah, and the only thing AL does is recruit O and D linemen who can hold on every play because that’s what they are paying refs to let them do.
Hunger strike that $hit wolfman…. Is Missouri the crying state? It sure seems like that’s all you do….
bt, You live closer to the epi-center of fake political action than anybody else who blogs on this site. That explains why you are so are up by it. Nobody else cares.
You do nothing but cry and post I correct information…. Hunger strike U
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Barnliz, thanks for your good ideas on this, certainly something every Missouri fan can wonder about.