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Minium: Alonzo Ford Turned Down Big-Time Offers and Then Had a Big-Time Season for ODU

By Harry Minium

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Alonzo Ford had his choice of quality football scholarship offers when he was a senior at Varina High School.

Yet Old Dominion had something that appealed to him you won't find at many universities – a campus with true diversity, a place where no matter where you're from, no matter your racial or ethnic identity, you will find people who look like you and share your life experiences.