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Top JUCO OT prospect, an Australia native, announces top 3; 2 SEC teams make the cut
By Sydney Hunte
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An intriguing offensive line prospect from Australia has the SEC in his sights.
JUCO offensive tackle Jordan Spasojevic-Moko announced his final 3 on Sunday morning. A pair of SEC programs, LSU and Texas A&M, made the cut, while Oregon was the 3rd, he stated on Twitter.
Spasojevic-Moko, a member of the roster at Snow College in Utah, is rated by 247Sports as the No. 1 offensive tackle recruit in junior college and the No. 6 JUCO player overall. The 6-foot-5, 335-pounder also plays offensive guard.
Florida, Missouri, Ole Miss and Tennessee joined LSU and Texas A&M as the other SEC schools that extended offers. Most surprisingly, many of his 22 offers came before him even playing a down of football here in the U.S.
In his native Australia, Spasojevic-Moko was a rugby player before moving to the United States to pursue a football career.
“I signed with a semi-professional rugby club and this coach came in from America to coach at my local club,” he told Rivals affiliate ASUDevils.com. “He told me that if ‘you dedicate your whole life to football, you’ll go to college, you’ll live your dream.’ So, I dropped everything rugby related, and managed to get to a camp on the Gold Coast here in Australia and a Snow College scout was there.”
Sydney is an Atlanta-based journalist who has covered everything from SEC and ACC football to MLS, the U.S. men's national soccer team and professional tennis. His work has appeared on such platforms as SB Nation, Cox Media Group and FanSided.
