Every spring when finals week rolls around my mind drifts back in time to friends that passed our way and moved on, sometimes student-athletes and sometimes other friends and acquintances. By a stroke of fortuitous timing, and courtesy die-hard Bobcat and long-time friend Bob Robinson (the famed Msla Cat), a link appeared in my inbox today detailing the life of former MSU men's basketball center and current University of Iowa law student Ted Morris.
Ted transferred to MSU from Indiana State in 2004, and grabbed 294 rebounds in his two seasons at MSU. Ted led the Bobcats with 7.1 boards a game as a senior.
Ted was a bit of a hard-luck case. Things didn't work out in his first college spot, and just as he was getting his feet underneath him at MSU he suffered an eye injury that shelved him for for most of what would have been a very productive mandatory redshirt season. Yet he perservered, and through it all was carried by a relentlessness that showed through in his academic work and the weight room, and once he was healthy on the basketball floor.
Most people will think of the goofy-looking goggles when they remember Ted. I'll remember an almost-seven-footer running hard on every wind sprint, finishing every drill, committing himself to doing things the right way. All in all, Ted was a pretty impressive kid while he was here and apparently he's on his way.
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