'08 MI ATH Mark Ingram (Alabama Signee)

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'08 MI RB Mark Ingram





Running Back
Flint (MI) Southwestern Academy

Ht: 5-foot-10
Wt: 202
Forty: 4.38
Vert: 37
Shuttle: 4.1
Stats: 127 carries for 999 Yards, 18 TD's ('06)
GPA: 3.4
Class: 2008 (High School)

Originally Posted by Michigan Elite High School Football Bio

He is the #1 rated RB in the state. He has the speed and cutback ability to be great at the next level

#1 RB in Michigan (Michigan Elite High School Football)

Rivals $

7/15

From the Washington site...has offers from Michigan State, Washington, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Cincinnati.

Adding a Wisconsin and Iowa discussion link...

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Scout $

7/16

Says he is very interest in Wisconsin after the offer.

[Bernini]

Scout $

Ingram emphatically denies a commitment to MSU...but likes the new coaching staff and familiarity gives them a minor edge....top 5: MSU, Wisconsin, Iowa, Washington, Florida...will decide after the season.

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8/20

From the Iowa site...down to Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Florida, Tennessee and Washington and says he hears from the Hawkeyes and Badgers the most.

[Heavystarch]

Scout.com: Thursday Kickoff Results

Flint Southwestern vs Midland Dow
OUR PREDICTION - Dow - 28, FSWA - 19
ACTUAL SCORE - FSWA - 49, Dow - 14

We thought Dow would hang in and pull away late and the Chargers were up 7-6 in the 2nd quarter, but then the Mark Ingram show began. The senior RB racked up 319 yards on 21 carries and 4 touchdowns. The addition of Ingram has Southwestern really looking like a team who will make a deep playoff run.

[Bernini]

Wow. Another ridiculous performance by a Wisconsin running back recruit in their season debut. I think it's a testament to our scouting that neither of these backs (Pead and Ingram) have real elite offers....yet Wisconsin is in heavy pursuit. I think we have a pretty good shot at landing one of the two, with Chris Anderson and Jonathan Gaye being two palatable fallback options.

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You're right, no offers like USC or anything like that, but both have a nice offer list and if they keep putting up performances like these, I agree with you that they could be on their way up the charts.

Ingram has offers from Tennessee, Iowa, Wisconsin (among others).
Pead has offers from West Virginia, Pittsburgh, Wisconsin (among others).


Another huge game by a RB we're after. I like it.

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The Red Zone - Flint Journal - MLive.com: Southwestern Academy

Mark Ingram set a city record with 319 yards rushing on 21 carries Thursday night to lead Southwestern Academy to a 49-14 victory over Midland Dow in a Saginaw Valley Conference football opener at Atwood Stadium.

The senior transfer from Grand Blanc broke the city mark of 296 yards by Northern's Idi Beard in a 34-28 victory over Bay City Central on Oct. 6, 1995. Ingram also eclipsed the Southwestern record of 275 yards by Jake Kendall in a 21-14 loss to Dow on Oct. 2, 1992.

Ingram scored touchdowns on runs of 70, 12, 13 and 2 yards as the Knights beat Dow for the first time since 1981, snapping a streak of 19 losses to the Chargers.

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MLive.com High School Sports

SWA beats Central despite off-night for Ingram
Posted by Dan Nilsen | The Flint Journal on August 31, 2007 1:46 a.m.

Southwestern Academy was a pretty good football team even before Mark Ingram joined the club and dazzled everyone with a 319-yard rushing performance in his debut last week.

So, on a night when Ingram was brought back to earth with a mere 79 yards Thursday night, those returning Knights from yesteryear stepped up and led a 27-6 victory over Central in a city and Saginaw Valley Conference game at Atwood Stadium.

Senior Tyrone Ward caught touchdown passes of 27 and 30 yards from senior Erik Fields and the SWA defense held Central to minus-8 yards rushing as the Knights stayed unbeaten in the Valley (2-0) and took a big step toward their third straight city title. SWA can wrap up the city by beating Northern on Sept. 28.

Ingram and the Knights have been the talk of the town all week after his city-record performance led a 49-14 thrashing of Midland Dow.

Ingram averaged 4.4 yards on his 18 carries and scored the game’s first touchdown on a 1-yard run. But the Division I-bound senior was tackled for losses five times and had only three runs longer than 9 yards.

Inevitably, he got caught up in conversation with Central players.

“It’s a city game, it’s a big rivalry, so there’s going to be talking,” Ingram said. “You just have to look past that. Bottom line is, we got the victory.”

Ingram’s interception and 36-yard return to the Central 7 set up his 1-yard score.

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Ingram Leads SWA Over Grand Blanc

Mark Ingram tormented his old team with 220 yards rushing and four touchdowns on 28 carries to lead Southwestern Academy to a 39-29 football victory at Grand Blanc on Friday night.
Ingram, a senior running back who transferred from Grand Blanc to SWA in his junior year, put the Knights ahead for good, 25-21, with a 34-yard TD run with 8:19 left in the fourth quarter. He added a 6-yard scoring run with 2:27 left.
SWA (3-0) came back from a 21-0 first-half deficit to win the first regular-season meeting between a city school and Big Nine Conference team since 1986. Each team had five turnovers.
Freshman quarterback Ryan Morley hit 16 of 26 passes for 175 yards and three touchdowns for Grand Blanc (1-2), but was intercepted four times.

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Flint SWA downs Western, loses coach

9/15

Southwestern football coach Gary Lee wasn’t around to see his star running back Mark Ingram run wild Friday night.
Lee was suspended indefinitely by Flint school superintendent Linda Thompson several hours before the Knights held onto first place in the Saginaw Valley League with a 39-22 victory over Bay City Western.
Ingram carried 18 times for 355 yards and six touchdowns.

He is going to be offered by every school in the country at this point. Hopefully he shows some loyalty to those who believed in him initially.

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MICK MCCABE: With win, troubled team bounces back

Suspensions rock Flint Southwestern
September 16, 2007

BY MICK McCABE
FREE PRESS SPORTS WRITER

The Flint Southwestern Academy football players, minus two, met with the Southwestern coaches, minus one, after school was dismissed Friday afternoon.

The question the coaches put to the players was simple: To play or not to play?

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"We talked things over," said senior running back Mark Ingram. "They told us if we wanted to play they'd have our backs and coach us. Everybody wanted to play."

So the players and coaches -- minus the three -- headed to Bay City and Ingram took it from there.

Ingram ran for an incredible 377 yards on 20 carries and scored six touchdowns in Southwestern's impressive 39-22 victory.

"It could have been 450 yards," Ingram said Saturday morning. "They took away an 80-yard touchdown I had because of a penalty."

Ingram was simply magnificent, scoring on runs of 10, 65, six, 15, 69 and 59 yards.

"It seemed like I'd get through the line and there would be only one guy," said Ingram. "If you're an athlete, you should be able to beat a guy one-on-one with a move."

In the final minutes of the game, Ingram's teammates asked him how many yards he thought he had gained.

"I thought maybe 275 or 250," he said. "When they said 377, I thought: 'Oh, wow!' "

The 377 yards gives Ingram -- whose father, Mark, played at Michigan State and in the NFL for 10 seasons -- a total of 995 yards in four seasons, and he gained a bunch of fans in Bay City.

"He's got great speed, but he's got great explosion to go with it," said Western coach Jim Eurick. "There were times it looked like we had him, and he'd make a cut and he was gone."

By Saturday morning, Ingram was back to reality and knew things would not be back to normal when school resumes Monday.

"We had a lot of controversy last week, and it's far from over," he said. "I don't know what's going to happen."

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