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Getting to Know Football's Brandon Crawford
July 24, 2009 | Football
Getting To Know: Ball State's Brandon Crawford
Brandon Crawford is a senior defensive end for the Ball State Cardinals. Crawford started all 14 games to earn third letter last season. He tied for third on the team with eight tackles for loss and was fourth on the team with three sacks. The Marine recovered a fumble at Miami University on Veteran's Day. Crawford worked in an automotive factory after high school graduation and before joining the Marine Corps in 1999. He went to Military Occupational Specialties school and then to Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in Havelock, N.C. and received an honorary discharge from the Marine Corps in 2003.
He graduated from Ball State in May and is currently working on a master's degree as he prepares for his final collegiate football season.
1. Why did you choose Ball State?
Close to home.
2. What do you consider your greatest accomplishment so far as an athlete?
Becoming a starter
3. What is your greatest accomplishment off the field?
Graduating college
4. What do you still hope to accomplish in the future?
Success
5. What are your goals for this season?
When each game one at a time.
6. Do you have higher expectations going into this season than last?
Less Mistakes
7. What is your favorite beverage/food/dessert?
Don't have favorite.
8. If you can have one animal be extinct, which would it be
NONE!
9. What would you like to be doing in ten years?
Have a family be healthy and living very well.
10. What were you up to this summer?
Football
11. What is an annoying habit you possess?
None
12. What is your greatest fear?
Losing
13. What would your superhero name be?
14. When you were a little kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
Many things!
15. Which three people (dead or alive) would you invite to dinner?
God, Mother, Father
16. What is the best class you've taken at Ball State?
History
17. What is the most notable thing about your hometown?
Rod Woodson, Tre Essek, Bernard Polard, Lamar Smith, Joey Eloms, Deion Mitchell, Anthony Spencer, Fabini, James Hardy
