Onye Ezeakudo
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Probably a walk-on. May have already been enrolled at Pitt. Here's an article from last January. Says D3 schools were contacting him
https://www.prephoops.com/2018/01/recruiting-report-onye-ezeakudo-2018/
A guy who averaged 13 points in HS with D3 offers isn't subbing for anyone. He is clearly a walk-on. Was probably already enrolled at Pitt and decided to walk-on.
Sounds like he was a good student, good major, so I believe that is a likely scenario.
I think this is how Reese Polen joined the team back in 2006. The team needed a practice player and held a short invitation-only walk-on try out for some current Pitt students that were DII/DIII prospects but decided to go to Pitt instead. In Reese's case, I believe he came to Pitt to play baseball but quit the baseball team a semester or so before joining the Bball team.
At least as of a few years ago, Pitt’s club basketball team was pretty good (for club team standards), and a few walk-ons in the Stallings era were players from the club team. It’s very possible this kid played club and they picked him from their roster. Club sports at a school of Pitt’s size are often kids who could have easily played D2 or D3.
I would be skeptical if this were a Stallings move. But since its Capel and we saw what he did in late recruiting last year I will, until it is proven otherwise, believe this kid has the ability to play at this level far better than a walk-on.
The kid is a walk-on. Even if it were Stallings adding a walk-on, why would you be skeptical? Teams have walk-ons.
This article confirms he is a walk-on. He is a D3 talent (ie a classic D1 walk-on).
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ca...-walkon-basketball-guard-sidy-ndir-fort-wayne
Being a walk-on of D3 caliber is not saying the kid is awful. Most walk-ons are that. I think there are posters who feel this is a player brought in to play or even on scholarship. He is a walk-on. That's all I am saying.
Easy to get a kid already in school since September to walk on but a "preferred walk-on" who enters school at mid-year? Which is he? I have been presuming the latter. But, perhaps that is not the case?
They had 9 healthy scholarship players plus 3 walking already, so they could practice. He gets them up to 13.
