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Frogs add Juco D-End Michael Tuaua

BillupsFrog

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Fwiw-He's a Samoan-American from a northern suburb of San Francisco, Rancho Cotate.

He broke his leg his first year at Santa Rosa Junior College and received a medical redshirt.

Had any of you recruiting guru's heard that TCU was talking to him? Reports from the JUCO newspaper said we were interested as early as October 2012.
 
West Coast Johnny

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BillupsFrog said:
Fwiw-He's a Samoan-American from a northern suburb of San Francisco, Rancho Cotate.

He broke his leg his first year at Santa Rosa Junior College and received a medical redshirt.

Had any of you recruiting guru's heard that TCU was talking to him? Reports from the JUCO newspaper said we were interested as early as October 2012.
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They've been talking about Tuaua tcu.scout for the last two weeks or so. Obviously one of the guys that had to wait for his offer, so not the first choice of the coaches - but who cares now? Tuaua for Heisman! Here's his highschool highlights which I'm not sure have been posted.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyR3EEuKn3E
 
West Coast Johnny

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Found this on Tuaua - says the Frogs were looking at him in October 2012. Seems like a great person.

http://www.theoakleafnews.com/sports/2012/10/11/even-a-broken-leg-cant-slow-down-srjc-football-star/


October 11, 2012

There is definitely no mistaking SRJC student Mike Tuaua when he walks around campus. The 6-foot, 3 inch, 260-pound freshman with a mane of reddish-brown hair, thick eyebrows and a warm Samoan smile is one the Bear Cubs’ best football players this season.

At an early age, Tuaua knew sports was something he wanted to pursue. But unlike most kids, Tuaua never had the experience of playing Pop Warner football.

“I couldn’t play sports at an earlier age because I am the second oldest child, and I had younger siblings to look out for,” Tuaua said. “I also went to church on Sundays and this made football hard to fit into my schedule.”

It was at Rancho Cotate High School in Rohnert Park where Tuaua’s football career ultimately began. He received First-Team All League his junior and senior year for both tight end and defensive end. When his school visited an annual Reno football camp, Tuaua got All-Camp tight end his junior year and All-Camp defensive end his senior year. By playing both offense and defense, Tuaua demonstrated his dominance on both sides of the ball. To mark his final high school accomplishments, he led his team to the North Coast Section Division II Championship game against Concord High School at the Oakland Coliseum, after which Tuaua received the award for Defensive Player of the Year.

After high school, Tuaua decided to attend SRJC and continue playing football. However, his career was brought to a halt during his first game against College of the Siskiyous, when Tuaua broke his leg, causing him to sit out for the rest of the season. He received a medical exemption for the season, giving him four years of college eligibility.
 
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Aloha Frog

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Getting a Polynesian kid to play ball in Texas isn't easy. A&M recruited Hawaii hard and only signed one. They spent a lot of money recruiting the islands and came up almost empty. They were in the running up to the last minute for Isaac Savaiinaea, the top linebacker in the state. He chose UCLA.
 
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Matthewavp

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maybe he can help open up the pipeline with some of the Trinity guys. GoFrogs shows him as having 2 years of elgibility, must be a typo.
 

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