CHAMPAIGN — Eventually, the NCAA will make a call. The organization will decide if tight end Luke Ford can play this season at Illinois.
All Ford can do is wait. And hope.
He is trying not to dwell on it.
"I'm just pushing it in the back of my mind at this point," Ford said. "Whatever they come back and say, I don't have any control over it."
But Ford supporters are openly rooting for a positive result. On Twitter, of course.
The #FreeLukeFord Twitter campaign is drawing interest from Illinois fans (no surprise) and Georgia fans (big surprise).