Freshman Khalif Ford will be sidelined for four to six weeks with a stress fracture in his right tibia forcing head coach Porter Moser to change the format of Thursday nights annual Red-White Scrimmage.
Obviously this is disappointing, Moser said. Khalif was here all summer, worked extremely hard all preseason and a great first week of practice and he was giving us some things at the point defensively and tempo wise. Its a setback, but its not going to be devastating because were going to find a way.
Neil Plank is going to have to step up and play some one for us, which means hes going to have to play one through four. Thats whats going to have to happen.
As scheduled, the Redbirds will play an actual game-like first half, but the format of the second half will be at Mosers discretion.
Well have to tweak the format with the injury to Khalif, Moser said. Well go one 20-minute half and the second is going to be determined. The area of the scrimmage that Im going to be focusing on the most is our team defense, I really want to see improvement in that area.
The intrasquad scrimmage will tip off at 7:05 p.m. in Redbird Arena on Thursday night.
