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Ford
injury alters Red-White plans
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[OCT. 26, 2004]
NORMAL -- Freshman Khalif Ford will be
sidelined for four to six weeks with a stress fracture in his right
tibia, forcing head coach Porter Moser to change the format of
Thursday night's annual Red-White Scrimmage.
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"Obviously this is disappointing," Moser said. "Khalif was here all
summer, worked extremely hard all preseason and a great first week
of practice, and he was giving us some things at the point
defensively and tempowise. It's a setback, but it's not going to be
devastating because we're going to find a way. "Neil Plank is
going to have to step up and play someone for us, which means he's
going to have to play one through four. That's what's going to have
to happen."
As scheduled, the Redbirds will play an actual gamelike first
half, but the format of the second half will be at Moser's
discretion.
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 "We'll have to tweak the format with the injury to Khalif," Moser
said. "We'll go one 20-minute half and the second is going to be
determined. The area of the scrimmage that I'm going to be focusing
on the most is our team defense. I really want to see improvement in
that area."
The intrasquad scrimmage will tip off at 7:05 in Redbird Arena on
Thursday night.
[Todd Kober,
assistant athletics director, media relations,
Illinois
State University] |
