tampaboi07 Posted December 28, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 111 Content Count: 563 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/10/2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061228/SPORTS/612280450/1006 What a great pick-up!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AstroBull Posted December 28, 2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 What a great pick up by our Bulls! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
South_Florida_Flip Posted December 28, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 99 Content Count: 10,565 Reputation: 93 Days Won: 7 Joined: 05/14/2005 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Nice Christmas present right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cptkid570 Posted December 28, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 49 Content Count: 403 Reputation: 2 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/01/2005 Share Posted December 28, 2006 "The 6-2, 220-pounder has been timed at 4.37 seconds in the 40-yard dash"Very nice! And he has 4 years of eligibility! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TampaTower Posted December 28, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 14 Content Count: 152 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/15/2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 I cant wait to see a Ford Tough USF running game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TampaTower Posted December 28, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 14 Content Count: 152 Reputation: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 11/15/2006 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Will he be in spring practice? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattegunz Posted December 28, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 112 Content Count: 687 Reputation: 20 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/24/2001 Share Posted December 28, 2006 Will he be in spring practice?If he enrolls in the second semester (Spring) like the article says he will be eligible for spring football which is awesome for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velcro Posted December 28, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 999 Content Count: 19,229 Reputation: 7 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/14/2002 Share Posted December 28, 2006 WOOOOHOOO! Hopefully all works out well with the enrollment process..All of a sudden, we have quite a good bit of depth at RB, with a potential stud.Ford/Plancher/Ponton & the full back recruit if he follows through on his verbal.Merry Christmas Bulls! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
E.T. Posted December 28, 2006 Group: TBP Subscriber III Topic Count: 4,751 Content Count: 37,676 Reputation: 2,367 Days Won: 29 Joined: 12/24/2001 Share Posted December 28, 2006 And he has 4 years elgibility !Ford headed for South FloridaThe ex-Sarasota High star, who had intended to go to Alabama, decided he'd rather be close to home.BY ALAN DELLTAMPA -- When Mike Ford was smashing all kinds of football records at Sarasota High, he earned the nickname "Ford Tough." After graduating high school in 2005 and accomplishing what only one other running back in state history had done, Ford found the road off the field was tougher than anything he encountered on it.He was coveted by the top football programs and verbally committed to Alabama. However, he didn't qualify and spent a year a Hargrave Military Academy in Virginia, where he straightened out most of his academics and played on the school's postgraduate team.Ford was set to join Alabama this winter. But after head coach Mike Shula was fired, he turned in a different direction. He wants to be close to home and near people he can trust. For him, that means playing for the University of South Florida and rooming with his cousin, Bulls wide receiver Amarri Jackson.Ford has been accepted at USF and plans to enroll for the second semester with a football scholarship, his mother, Dondra Walker, said Tuesday. She also said his academics are in order and he has been cleared by the NCAA to play. Ford was not available for comment."We are very excited and looking at Mike to enroll in January," his mother said. "Originally, he wanted to go to Alabama, but now that Coach Shula is gone he doesn't want that. USF is No.1 for him now because I live in Sarasota and will be able to come to all his games. He is cleared and eligible to play."Sarasota High coach Bob Perkins said Ford gives USF something it covets: a big, strong back with a breakaway speed. The 6-2, 220-pounder has been timed at 4.37 seconds in the 40-yard dash.Ford is the most prolific running back this area has produced. He holds the single-season area rushing record with 2,836 yards, averaging 236 yards per game his senior season (2004), while racking up 37 touchdowns and 222 points. His single-game high came against Naples Lely, when he ran for 368 yards.Ford became only the second player in state history to rush for more than 200 yards in 11 straight games during his senior year, when he was named the Class 5A Player of The Year. The only person to better that mark is Frostproof High's Travis Henry, now with the Tennessee Titans and the second-leading rusher in state history."Alabama said Mike was already qualified and he was going there because of the people who recruited him, but that changed. Mike has been on a long road and been through a lot and wants to be close to Amarri and his family," Perkins said. "Any coach in the country would be excited to have him. He is big and strong and bruising, and, when he is in the open field, they never catch him."The best thing for USF is that Ford has four years of eligibility. The year he spent at Hargrave does not count against his college time.While at Hargrave, he shared the running back job with Keilanda Williams, who is a freshman tailback at LSU."Mike was like a man playing against boys in high school. When he starts playing in college, he will be in a similar situation because he is an older freshman and is bigger and stronger then he was in high school," Perkins said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabull80 Posted December 28, 2006 Group: Member Topic Count: 96 Content Count: 4,501 Reputation: 93 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/25/2001 Share Posted December 28, 2006 all I got to say is wow. This is what we were all hoping for. Impact RB. OK, lets hear from the recruiting experts. How big is this and how good is he. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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