As a seven-year old, new to Lauderdale Lakes, Demar Dorsey bright future on the gridiron didn’t seem so certain. He was new to the area, having moved from Deerfield Beach, when he decided to try out for the youth football program in the Fort Lauderdale suburb. “It was my first year at Lauderdale Lakes, and I was trying out for the A team, but the coaches never looked at me because I was a new player,” recalls Dorsey. “He kept together his other players who had been together since they were younger.”
Unfazed by the demotion, Dorsey used the slight as a motivational tool. He’s kept on improving which is why this top safety in the 2010 recruiting class has committed to the Florida Gators.
“When I had to play on the B team, I started scoring 3 or 4 times a game,” says Dorsey, a star at Boyd Anderson who has grown to 6-2, 190.
The coaches that put him on the “B” team recognized the error of their ways and they even admitted their mistake.
Sometime later, Dorsey recalls that one of the coaches told him, “Man, if I would have had you Demar, we could have won the (Pop Warner) Super Bowl!”
Dorsey is no B-teamer now. He is a star in a Boyd Anderson secondary and his team is just beginning to hit its stride. Friday night, “Crazy Legs” Dorsey helped Boyd Anderson put the hurting on Plantation, 30-0. Playing on a team that counts Brandon McGee and Josh Robinson among the prospects on its roster, Dorsey uses his 10.5 100-meter speed to cover a lot of ground from his safety position.
Dorsey arrived at his decision to play college football at Florida after taking in big wins over LSU and Kentucky at The Swamp. The visits have allowed him to hook up with former teammate Moses Jenkins, a reserve cornerback for the Gators.
“Me and Moses are real tight. “My ninth grade year I played on JV and they moved me up to varsity at the end of the season. That was his [Jenkins] senior year but I’ve know him since I was little anyways.”
While the decision making process was a difficult one for Dorsey, in the end he made a decision which the whole family could be happy with.
“I always liked the Florida program ever since I was little,” he said. “That’s all my father and my mother used to watch was Florida. I told my Mom that I’m going to go to Florida to play football one day and make [her] very happy.”
While overtures from Florida State, Miami, and North Carolina were very appealing to the young DB, in the end it was the overall fit of the program, and the feelings that were nurtured as a child that made the Gators the “right fit” for a player who may turn out to be one of the top defensive back prospects in the state of Florida for the 2010 class.
Dorsey’s commitment will be one of the topics on Gator Country Internet Radio/TV on the Franz and Friends show at 9 p.m.