He is a 238 pound bashing type back. Riley recruited him, but, he never even sees the field. Maybe one of the reporters can ask about this guy?!?!?!?!
What did Devine O do to Riley or the Team?
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That's absolutely not it. That's one of the main reasons he played over other backs last year.
This really extends back to midway through last season when he disappeared from the field. Before the bowl game against Tennessee he said,
“The coaches talked to me a little bit and said it was a trust factor,” Ozigbo said. “When I came back after I was banged up a little bit, there were some mental mistakes that I was making that the others weren’t. So it was on me. I had to correct those mistakes, do what I had to do to show them I knew everything in practice. It just took a little longer.”
Those mistakes weren’t necessarily glaring errors, but they were enough of the “little things” that added up into issues the coaching staff simply couldn’t ignore.
Ozigbo said some of the mistakes he was making may have been a result of the ankle injury he suffered against Illinois, but admitted they were also due to him not being 100 percent mentally dialed in when he was working his way back into the rotation.
Evidently, he has not regained that trust.
“The coaches talked to me a little bit and said it was a trust factor,” Ozigbo said. “When I came back after I was banged up a little bit, there were some mental mistakes that I was making that the others weren’t. So it was on me. I had to correct those mistakes, do what I had to do to show them I knew everything in practice. It just took a little longer.”
Those mistakes weren’t necessarily glaring errors, but they were enough of the “little things” that added up into issues the coaching staff simply couldn’t ignore.
Ozigbo said some of the mistakes he was making may have been a result of the ankle injury he suffered against Illinois, but admitted they were also due to him not being 100 percent mentally dialed in when he was working his way back into the rotation.
Evidently, he has not regained that trust.
