"An article on University wide receiver David Ball who holds the Division I-AA record for touchdown catches.
What’s interesting is that the story, from a Vermont paper and dated today, says “Ball’s agent is negotiating with the Montreal and the CFL rival Hamilton Tiger Cats.” His wiki page says he’s joined the Ticats and the team site doesn’t have him listed on the roster but a profile page exists for him."
If true (and it seems to be) this is great news for the Ti-Cats O. Having the all time TD catch leader in the NCAA can’t hurt. He’s the exact same size Jason French was. He broke Jerry Rice’s college record.
There's going to be some serious competition for receiving positions. Expect to see a few more familiar names not making the cut. Mitchell, Cohen, and Walker in particular, will need strong camps to find a spot. Anyway, if true, congrats to Obbie for continuing to build depth and create competition for positions.
While Ball's NCAA Division 1AA career touchdown record is very impressive and he is definitely worth a look, it was not too long ago that the Ticats had Taylor Stubblefield, the NCAA Division 1A career receptions leader, on their team. He was here in 2005 and again in 2007 and was unable to win a starting wide receiver or slot back job. Novascotiakid is right though that increased competition at the receiver position is a good thing.
David Ball was on the Als practice roster last year along with his QB Santos. He was not able to crack the roster. Als have however kept Santos. It would be nice to see him crack the Ticats roster, Als were deeper at the position...
Of course he's not. I think the point that was being made is that it is not exactly unknown for a player to come to Canada with stellar college numbers, and then fall flat on his face in the CFL. Chang is but one example of same. Will it happen to Ball? We'll see.....................