For whatever reason, the University of Washington football program hasn't always been able to connect with recruits from O'Dea High School, which is one of the closest in Seattle to Husky Stadium. This goes all the way back to Taylor Mays, currently the Huskies safeties coach who preferred to play his college ball for USC, even though his dad, Stafford, was a standout UW defensive lineman. In more recent years, prominent O'Dea offensive offensive linemen in 6-foot-4, 330-pound Mark Nabou and 6-foot-3, 342-pound Isendre Ahfua spurned the Huskies for Texas A&M. Nabou, who was once committed to the Huskies, became a starter as a redshirt freshman for A&M in 2023 and returns for a final season this fall. The Huskies finally reversed that trend of outbound O'Dea players recently signing Fighting Irish edge rusher David Schwerzel, but not before he had committed to Stanford and UCLA. Now comes Tevita Nonu -- considered the No. 1 player statewide -- who's a 4-star recruit for O'Dea and the Class of 2027.…