Brandon Odoi

Brandon Odoi is a tenured journalist. He's covered youth football since 8th grade, high school football since 2009 and began covering college football in 2011 as a beat writer for the University of Miami Athletic programs. In 2011, he founded Football Hotbed a national multi-media platform for football across the country. He's a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and spent his first five years as a professional working at ABC Television Network, ending his career as a producer in Miami. He's married with two sons and resides in South Florida.

Hotbed Exclusive: Inside the Pasadena Lakes 13U Program (Video)

Football Hotbed caught up with Coach Ro Wallance of the Pasadena Lakes Panthers 13U team in South Florida, one of the teams getting most of the early buzz in the area.  It’s because their move over from the Florida Youth

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MOT’s T-Smooth Expecting a Breakout Year

The Underdog that Never Quit… With nothing to lose and everything to gain…. This is the story of Tyrek Williams, AKA… T-SMOOVE, a young A/B honor roll student athlete who has the dream and aspiration of becoming a great Quarterback. It

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Hotbed Classic Recap: Three Days, Four Champions

(Jacksonville, FL)– The second annual Hotbed Classic is in the books and it was a great pre-season tournament in which four champions were crowned.  The Mentors of Tomorrow (MOT) Cowboys won the 8U, 10U & 14U championships as the host

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Hotbed Radio June 10, 2013 with Ivory Durham the Mayor of Jacksonville

Check out the latest episode of Hotbed Radio featuring Ivory Durham, the mayor of Jacksonville, Florida. ID lets the kids get in on the action. Check out the show below: Listen to internet radio with Southeast Insider Network on BlogTalkRadio

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Hotbed Radio May 20, 2013

Check out the latest edition of Hotbed Radio, the country’s best and only national youth football radio talk show. Travis Thomas and Tavaris Bragdon joined host Brandon Odoi for this latest installment as we focused on the changing youth football

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Hotbed Radio May 13, 2013 with Ivory Durham aka ID the Mayor

Check out the latest edition of Hotbed Radio with host, Ivory Durham from Jacksonville.  We set the stage for the Hotbed Classic and we talked about “recruiting” in youth football with Travis Thomas, Tavaris Bragdon and the rest of the

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Hotbed Radio March 25, 2013

Check out the latest edition of Hotbed Radio covering youth football from South Florida, across the globe. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE SHOW

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DeJuan Ellis

Hotbed Radio March 18, 2013

Tonight, Hotbed Radio will be epic. We’ll have 7th grade All-American QB DeJuan Ellis II on the show, fresh off his 4.5/40 this past weekend. We’ll also have Youth Football Scout Al Pops to get his take on the landscape

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Hotbed Radio March 4, 2013

Check out another great edition of the best youth football talk show in the entire world. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE SHOW

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Northwest Louisiana Head Coach Mike Manno Talks FBU National Championship Opener

Check out more exclusive coverage from the FBU National Championships with video here from the runner-up head coach, Mike Manno of the 7th grade Northwest Louisiana team.  Hear what he was thinking before the start of the final four tournament. 

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