Football 10 Essential Bulls: Kawika Mitchell

[Triple B]

 

By JIM LOUK

 

Voice of the Bulls

 

TAMPA, AUG. 1, 2014 - He’s another Bull that never played in a conference game for USF.   He really only shows up in one spot on the USF all-time lists, but I suspect it’s the exact spot he’d like to be in.

 

Earlier in the series, we talked about Chad Barnhardt taking a leap of faith to transfer from South Carolina to USF.  Soon after, Kawika Mitchell left Georgia to come to the Bulls, and by the time he left, he had helped the USF defense become very ready for conference play.

 

If you look closely at most of the successful USF Football teams to date, they are almost all built on defense.  And that defensive superiority has always seemed to start from the linebacker position.

 

Even in the early FCS days, USF had punishing linebackers.  As the old saying goes, “Guys that would hit you and make sure you stayed hit.† The Bulls had some good ones right at the start; Marshall Smith, Demetrious Woods and Jason Butler come to mind as guys who set the tone early.

 

But we really hadn’t seen anyone in Green and Gold like Kawika Mitchell.

 

 

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[DELdaBull]

Kawika Mitchell was awesome.

[charsibb]

So. who would you pick for #11?

[DELdaBull]

No Deandre? No Blackwell?

[NCBull]

So. who would you pick for #11?

Blackwell

[Brad]

So. who would you pick for #11?

 

 

That's a good question.  To recap:

 

10 Essentials Bulls

By Jim Louk

 

Hugh Smith

Chad Barnhardt

Bill Gramatica

Matt Grothe

Jason Pierre-Paul

Andre Hall

George Selvie

B.J. Daniels

Mike Jenkins

Kawika Mitchell

 

 

I'd also think of Rubin, JR Reed, Blackwell, and a handful of our linebackers.

[Triple B]

So. who would you pick for #11?

 

 

That's a good question.  To recap:

 

10 Essentials Bulls

By Jim Louk

 

Hugh Smith

Chad Barnhardt

Bill Gramatica

Matt Grothe

Jason Pierre-Paul

Andre Hall

George Selvie

B.J. Daniels

Mike Jenkins

Kawika Mitchell

 

 

I'd also think of Rubin, JR Reed, Blackwell, and a handful of our linebackers.

Based on the Pitt game alone, MB and/or DR should be on there ...

[Blackice12]

It is amazing how many people are on this list and to think there are still more who could be listed.

 

Anthony Henry

Stephen Nicholas

JR Reed

Dyral McMillan

Rafael Williams

Huey Whittaker

Ean Randolph

Shurron Pierson

Shawn Hay

[Brad]

Definitely Anthony Henry.

[South_Florida_Flip]

Blackwell should have been in top 10 without question. I wouldn't have had Gramatica in there.