Tim Higgins

One of his assistants is former Bulldogs player Kenny Carter, and Meyer coached Tim Higgins, the son of The Citadel coach who was a walk-on receiver with the Gators' national championship team in 2006.
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I know 'Higs' and his father is the coach. (Tim) Higgins played for us and he's always going to be a Gator."
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His father, Tim, died of cancer on Oct. 13, just five days before Furman's game with The Citadel.

They have walk-on receiver Tim Higgins, who competed in the 1999 National Spelling Bee, and has been on the scout team for three seasons.He finally got in a game his senior year.

Tim Higgins, a walk-on receiver for the Florida Gators and the son of Bulldogs coach Kevin Higgins, will transfer to The Citadel and play in 2007 as a graduate student, the elder Higgins said Wednesday.
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Tim Higgins, 5-8 and 170 pounds, graduated from Florida in December after 3 1/2 years at the school, and has one season of eligibility remaining.He will be working on his master's degree in education at The Citadel, his father said.

'He actually starts graduate classes on Thursday night,' Kevin Higgins said. 'He eventually wants to be a social studies teacher and a high school coach.'

Tim Higgins earned attention this season as the Gators' version of 'Rudy' during their championship season.After three years as a walk-on, which included a comeback from a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his knee, Tim was put on scholarship this season by coach Urban Meyer.
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But there is more to Tim Higgins than the one shining moment that ended the movie 'Rudy', the story of Notre Dame walk-on Rudy Ruettiger.
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Tim was a National Merit Scholar, which enabled him to attend Florida for free, and made the SEC Academic Honor Roll.
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'I remember when Tim was a freshman I had a chance to go to Florida's spring game,' Kevin Higgins said. 'They had a couple of receivers injured, and Tim knew all the positions, so they put him in with the first group of receivers.He caught a touchdown pass from Chris Leak, so that ended up being the highlight of his early career.'

The knee injury and the transition from ex-coach Ron Zook to Meyer two years ago meant Tim Higgins had to prove himself all over again to a new coaching staff.
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Tim Higgins will be the latest in a line of grad-student transfers to play for the Bulldogs, including quarterbacks Jeff Klein (Auburn) and Willie Simmons (Clemson) and receivers Kinta Palmer (Penn State) and Mark Wigal (Duke).
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Wide receiver Marquel Willis, a freshman from Summerville High School, is leaving The Citadel and will transfer to Coastal Carolina, Higgins said.Willis will have to sit out one season before he is eligible to play for the Chanticleers.

'It's a shame,' Higgins said, 'but he was just never comfortable with the military environment here.'