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Lewisville (Texas) football coach saw transformation on, off field for 2024 standout tackle Michael Fasusi
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Michael Fasusi’s high school football coach saw transformation on, off field: ‘He was a sponge’
Lewisville (Texas) 5-star, nation’s No. 2 offensive tackle, will announce college commitment on Wednesday
Buck Ringgold, SBLive Sports | Aug 20, 2024
Michael Odle saw the raw potential in Michael Fasusi from the moment that the Lewisville High standout offensive tackle stepped onto a Texas high school football field.
What impressed Odle, Lewisville’s head coach, was Fasusi’s quick ability to pick up the nuances of the game after he and his family came to the United States from Nigeria.
“He was a sponge when it came to football; he didn’t know a lot about it, his older brother played soccer,” Odle said of Fasusi, a 6-foot-6, 310-pound senior and nation’s No. 2 rated offensive tackle. “But just watching him develop from his eighth-grade and ninth-grade year to what he became the end of his ninth-grade year, we were like, ‘Wow.’
“But he stayed humble, he just worked hard and was just a sponge, just picked up on every little bit of coaching and advice that he got and he did a good job. His parents did a good job of surrounding him with really good people and it’s been pretty awesome to see.”
And on Wednesday, exactly six years to the day that he arrived in America, Fasusi – ranked the No. 12 overall prospect and No. 3 overall o
