In the Trenches 132 - David Ojabo
MGoBlue Podcasts with Jon Jansen
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4.8 • 754 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2020
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Jon begins the episode by discussing Michigan's important ticket policy announcement for the 2020 football season (3:20). Then, he catches up with redshirt freshman defensive lineman David Ojabo, who has spent the last three months in his home country of Scotland because of the COVID-19 pandemic. David provides an update on his situation in Scotland (8:30), details his unique journey to the United States and to the game of football (16:30), shares some amazing stories from his recruitment (20:15) and discusses why he ultimately chose Michigan (23:15). You can follow along with more from this unique story on Twitter by searching #FreeJabo.
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| 0:00.0 | We've got some interesting news and a very interesting guest today. |
| 0:04.7 | David Ajabo, who is over in Aberdeen, Scotland, is trying to find a way back to the states, |
| 0:12.5 | back to his teammates, back to the University of Michigan and his football team. |
| 0:17.8 | He is using hashtag free jobbo to get the word out. We will discuss what he's going through |
| 0:24.1 | and talk to him next on In the Trenches. Let's go in the trenches with John Jansen. The former |
| 0:31.0 | Wolverines captain in Michigan Sports Hall of Famer will take you inside the locker room with |
| 0:35.5 | players and coaches. It just seems like never ending, you know. |
| 0:39.7 | There's lockdown and everybody probably feel that way, |
| 0:41.9 | but especially for me, like, it's being away from my teammates, you know. |
| 0:45.7 | I remember when I was trying to fight to come home, you know, like, |
| 0:49.3 | I miss my family. |
| 0:50.5 | I'm like, eh, you know what I said? |
| 0:52.0 | I miss my voice. |
| 0:53.9 | So it's just crazy how things can change. Once again, |
| 0:57.7 | here's John Jansen. Welcome back, friends. And I mentioned we're going to have David Ojabo, |
| 1:04.0 | a redshirt freshman defensive lineman who is currently residing in Aberdeen, Scotland. We're going to talk to him in just a few minutes, and he's got a great story just about |
| 1:14.5 | how he got introduced to football, a great story about how he got introduced to Jim Harbaugh. |
| 1:20.7 | And we'll get to him in just a few minutes. |
| 1:22.6 | But my friend, and you know him very well here from in the trenches Brian Bush how are you today |
| 1:30.6 | I'm great John and one more tease you'll you'll never believe the first football helmet that |
| 1:36.4 | David Ojoabo put on unbelievable and so I'll give everybody a quick tease he came to America to go to boarding school at the age of 15, had never played the game of football. |
| 1:51.5 | Didn't come here to play the game of football. |
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