Fui

The man is knocking on the door to the NFL as a blue collared occupant (FB). A few of the teams answering his yelp, to name a few: Bengals, Chargers, 49ers, Cowboys, NY Giants. All great organizations, All great places to visit (stay away Alanta, Baltimore, Pittsburgh.)

Coming out of High school we all knew Fui as the main character on our East High Highlight video..... and oh do I remember making some popcorn and sitting 7 to a couch to watch.

Blocking for the Fui in a game was easy, staying out of his way at practice was difficult physically and verbally, he consistently abused his team, on a personal mission to toughin everyone up. My 155 pound frame didn't have to block my opponent with him, I just had to get his way, because Fui would go either way of the block running at a 40-yard dash time of 4.4. This guy averaged +10 yards per carry (112 carries for 1,107 yards as a senior.) A favorite play of mine with Fui is when he broke 3 tackles and was in a absolute maul, everyone (especially Alex Thorley...of course) walked back to start the next huddle, just then Fui popped out and ran for a few more yards. He was an animal... 15 punt returns for 434 yards and 11 kick returns for 293 yards ... registered 12 touchdowns as a senior, including two defensive TDs ... credited with three interceptions and four sacks and two forced fumbles. MVP of our team, and MVP of his National rugby championship Team.

Fui and William had more invites to attend college than any other person in our 80 person acapella class. There were no slouches in Ms. Applegate's class either, I think a few went on to graduate in honors at several universities: Dartmouth, BYU, NYU, SUU (or no).. but none of us received Evan a junk mail forward from University of Phoenix. This man had choices, even Nebraska flew Fui out (they are an equivalent of USC today.) I remember going with Fui to a U of U football practice, coaches were drooling. I heard flattery such as, " We had a play that we refuse to run this year, mainly because we are saving it for you next fall." The biggest invites other than Fui and Will on our team were 6 of us received Weber State walk-on invites (I'm pretty sure coach Whitehead might have typed up himself.)

I've loved having Fui play for BYU, I've played the, 'I know him card' more in the last 3 years than I have with my own Dad in 25 years. It's too bad he was hampered with continuous injuries, after all was said in done though, it might have been a blessing in disguise. Half back is such an elitist position he might not have made it with sharing runs with Unga JR and SR years. With Tonga out this last year, Fui has become one of the most exciting players to watch at one of the dullest rolls you could have at BYU.

I think he will grow in knowledge at Full Back and make it in the league. I tell him the golden number is 1.2 million. If he can hit that point, which would take 3 or 4 years in the league at minimum, NFL salary (Maximum real life salary) he could be set. Put it into U.S treasury bonds and earn $60,000 on annuities. The rest will be sipping pina colatas in Tonga.

Go FUI!!!