Mike Carbone (Freedom High – Los Medanos CC) is finishing his senior season at Montana State University Northern. He has been a key player for the Lights and has been on fire lately. Great everyday story of a student athlete who kept working on himself and moved up from high school to junior college then onto the collegiate ranks to play football. NFL who knows, I think he’s got the speed, size and athleticism but he’ll graduate with a degree in Business so mission accomplished.  Nice story about him in the Harve Daily News:
Game Day Notebook: Senior running backs make memories
MSU-Northern Game Day Notebook
George Ferguson
Monday, November 5th, 2012
Mastering the sack
Senior Day was special for all nine Northern stars playing in their final game at home. But many also made a huge impact on the game itself. One of those was senior defensive tackle Mike Carbone, who’s been on a terror as of late. Carbone racked up six solo tackles, two for loss, while also earning one sack Saturday. It was Carbone’s fourth straight game with a sack, and he now leads the Lights with six on the season. Carbone, a 6-2, 265-pounder from Oakley, Calif., came to Northern as a highly-touted defensive end for the 2011 season, but his versatility made him a unique player to put in the middle of the defensive line.
His size allows him to play the power game and stop the run, as he’s done for much of the season, but his speed and agility allows him to rush the passer, which he’s been doing a with fervor the last few weeks. Carbone now stands at third in the Frontier Conference in sacks. And though he only played for the Lights for two seasons, he had a major impact on the Northern defense and certainly made the most of his final home game of his career.