Indiana State University football will be honoring fourteen seniors Saturday in the game against Southern Illinois University.

The senior class was among the first players to be recruited and play under ISU football head coach Trent Miles.  This is the fourth season for Miles who has an overall record of 13-31.  

Alex Bettag

"Coach Miles came in and made the changes that needed to be made to get the program going in the right direction.  Noone could have done the job better than he has done thus far.  Training under Coach Miles has be a privilege and an experience that I will remember for the rest of my life."

Bettag is an elementary education major with a reading minor.  He plans to become a graduate assistant and go on to coaching football.

Cory Bichey

"It has been a great experience, a life changing experience. Coach Miles is a great person and a great coach, and I am just honored that I was given the chance to play for him."

Bichey is an exercise science  major with a minor in strength and conditioning.  He hopes to go to graduate school and continue his study.

Coy Glass

"I liked training under Coach Miles because he had so much passion for the team. This is his hometown, and you could tell he honestly cared about the program, athletes and community, and he was willing to do whatever it takes to improve Indiana State Football."

Glass is a psychology major and plans to attend graduate school.

Ednut Egberongbe

"Training under Coach Miles wasn't always pretty.  We have had our good times and bad,  as well. You know that's how family is. It's always up and down, but at the end of the day, it's love since we're on the same page he signed me because he felt there was something I showed him on film that would contribute to winning."

Egberongbe is a criminology and criminal justice major and plans on returning to his home city of New York.  He hopes to be a forensic accountant or work in corrections.

Justin Hilton

"I've only been here for two years, as I was a Junior College transfer from Butte College, and the way the team has grown would be the way we attacked the week as a whole, and the way we all bought in to winning games and having winning seasons."

Hilton is a criminology and criminal justice  major and plans to continue his football career and be a head high school football coach in Florida.

Odeh Farha

"Coach demands a lot of everyone that has anything to do with the program. He has his old school football mind that nothing beats hard work and discipline which has held true. But he is always working hard and leading by example with how to do everything the right way. He has helped this team become a true program to be proud to be a part of."

Farha is majoring in business administration.  He hopes to be going to Riverside, Calif. and work in pharmeciutical sales.

Ronnie Fouch

"Training under Trent Miles has helped our team grow into mature, disciplined, accountable [people] who put the team before self and will do whatever it takes to win on and off the field."

Fouch is a criminology and criminal justice major.

Alex Sewall

"My most memorable moment was definitely our win against Western Illinois that snapped the losing streak. That was like a huge weight lifted off of our shoulders and has motivated us to keep working and turn the program around."

Sewall is an exercise science major and hopes to play in the NFL.  If not, he woould like to coach somewhere.

Ben Geffert

"My most memorable moment of the fives years here would have to be our homecoming win against Western Illinois to break our losing streak."

Geffert is a physical education major.  After graduation, he hopes to get a teaching job and coach high school football.

Brock Lough

Lough is a communication major.

Julian Easterly

"My most memorable moment with Indiana State football actually occured last spring during winter conditioning. We woke up extremely early on a day where most of the power in the city was cut off because of a terribly violent snow storm ... We didn't just run through the snow that day, we ran through all the adversity of the past and the odds of the years to come."

Easterly is an English major with a minor in French and a certificate to Teach English as a Second Langauge (TESL). After graduation, he plans to teach English in France and South Korea.

 

Larry Carter

"My most memorable moment was the last play of the team's first win after the losing streak. I was on the field still playing. I couldn't even make it to the sideline before all of the fans stormed and met us on the field."

Carter is a physical education major, and, after he graduates, he hopes to be doing anything in life that makes him happy.

 

Lawrence Young

"My most memorable moment as a Sycamore would be our win over Western Illinois my sophomore year. This was my first win as a Sycamore and a player under Coach Miles. Coach Miles has always pushed us to the limit and demands the best effort we could give every time we step on the field."

Young is majoring in business administration.  After graduating, he plans on getting his masters in business.

Rod Hardy

"My most memorable moment came in August 2008 when I first reported to training camp and met this hyper loud mouth linebacker and a shy overgrown tackle with a full beard both from Detroit. Today Aaron Archie and Lawrence Young are two of my closest friends, along with a lot of other guys this is what this team has done for us, and I will always remember that."

Hardy is psychology major with a minor in African-American studies.  After graduation, he wants to go into coaching.