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Betting on himself: Saturday signified hard work paying off for Ike Ogbogu

Waiting had been the story of Ike Ogbogu’s football career.

Coming out of high school, the 6-foot-1-inch junior quarterback kept waiting and waiting for a Division 1 offer but it never seemed to come. The one Division 1 offer Ogbogu did receive, which came from Cornell, was quickly revoked when the university underwent a coaching staff change.

From there, Ogbogu could have gone the JUCO route, but he decided against that path because he wanted to attend a four year college.

Ogbogu looked all over the country for any Division 1 four year university that would take him but no one seemed to take interest in him.