When sophomore cornerback Donte Small stepped on the field for the Morgan State University football team to face Howard University Oct. 20, he very easily could have been on the opposite sideline. For that matter, he probably could have been on an even bigger stage somewhere else playing for a well-known NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision program.
But he's a Bear, and that makes Morgan State interim head coach Ernest T. Jones happy.
"I have Division I eyes," said Jones, who previously served as an assistant at FBS schools Notre Dame and Connecticut. "When I saw him play, I knew that he had a chance to go play at bigger programs than Morgan State in the [Football Championship Series], but I'm happy to have him. I had to fight my butt off to get him here. One of his high school coaches is at Howard, so he could have easily gone there."
