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C LeCharles Bentley (2001 Rimington Award & 2 time Pro Bowler)

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LeCharles Bentley Joins Bull & Fox
September 30, 2011

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In part one, former Ohio State and NFL offensive lineman LeCharles Bentley joined Bull & Fox to talk some OSU football.

Part two entails LeCharles? thougths on the Browns both in the present and the future.
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http://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2011/09/30/lecharles-bentley-joins-bull-fox/
 
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Just My Thoughts
Posted by LeCharles Bentley on October 19, 2011

I look back over my football career and I have internal debates with myself over what was the official year my professional career ended. The last officially sanctioned football game I played in was the 2006 NFL Pro-Bowl as a New Orleans Saint. Following that season, I signed a free agent deal with my hometown Cleveland Browns but never had an opportunity to play in a game due to a knee injury and severe complications from a Staph infection. The three years I spent on the Browns roster were "accrued" seasons which simply mean they counted towards my retirement but the technical aspect of that is for another time. In order to keep it simple, each year counted as an earned season in the NFL although I spent the time in extensive rehab programs. As a competitor, you want to go out on your own terms so I count the Pro-Bowl as my official exit but understanding the business side of professional athletics, the 2009 season seems like a pretty good year to end my career.

Now that I'm a bit older and wiser I find myself looking at the entire situation through a completely different lense.

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http://www.o-lineworld.com/profiles/blogs/just-my-thoughts
 
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LeCharles has launched his own internet radio station.

Site will feature shows with Troy Smith, Maurice Clarett and Alex Boone.

First show will be tomorrow at 6PM at the Boys and Girls Club of Cleveland and it will be a Buckeye Pregame show with Troy Smith.

The site also features a Monday Night Football show with Peyton Hillis.
 
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Karma Bitten Bielema

By LeCharles Bentley

We often attempt to script our existence in a similar fashion to a coach?s game plan for an upcoming opponent. The great mind, Benjamin Franklin famously quoted, ?if you fail to plan, you plan to fail?. But Benjamin Franklin failed to take into account for karma?s dreadful sense of humor. Last night, The University of Wisconsin?s head coach Bret Bielema did a fabulous job in game planning the Buckeyes but failed to take into account for karma?s dreadful sense of humor.

The Badgers marched into Columbus reeling after suffering a tough loss to Michigan State a week prior. Wisconsin?s hopes for a National Title took a strong blow but with top ranked teams within the BCS such as Alabama and LSU still having to play one another, there hopes were not completely dashed. But after last night, it?s a safe bet that Bret Bielema and his Badgers won?t be holding the Sears Trophy come years end. Now, i?m not reveling in this bitter reality for the Badgers because I harbor deep seeded animosity towards the kids or the school, but I do take issue with their head coach. I don?t know Brett Bielema on a personal level and I wouldn?t hesitate to assume that he is a fun guy to have a beer with but he is an inappropriately arrogant football coach.

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http://lbentleyradio.com/2011/10/30/karma-bitten-bielema/
 
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Lack of Leadership

By LeCharles Bentley

For the most part, I sat quietly through the Penn State versus Ohio State matchup. It was my intent to limit my social media interaction as to not get my perception tainted with the immediate access to the thoughts and opinions of others. This has allowed me to frame a personal reality that I?ve been pondering but really wanted to examine further, in particularly with today being senior day.

The Ohio State football program is in great shape, regardless of who the future coach may or may not be. What I?ve been able to decipher about this team is it?s front running personality that has been bred through years of entitlement. No, it?s not the young core of phenomenal freshmen and sophomores that have lead this program down the gloomy road we currently sit on. It has been the self centered upper class men that have sullied this program with their egocentric personas. We now understand why Fickell didn?t have the team elect captains this season. If we look back at Terrell Pryor and how he handled himself, he was the embodiment of the elder statesmen of this Buckeye program. Obviously, it wasn?t just Pryor that was driven by self interest. I took a close look at the mannerisms and body language of the veterans and it tells me they just don?t care.

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http://lbentleyradio.com/2011/11/19/lack-of-leadership/
 
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Boys II Men

By LeCharles Bentley

In the wake of The Ohio State University?s loss to the University of Michigan in ?The Game?, we?ve all been reminded what it means to be a Buckeye.

It goes without saying that this season has been marred with scandal, rumors and innuendo. Through NCAA violations and penalties, the program had been dealt a regrettable hand but didn?t have any other option other than to play it out in the best fashion they could. Albeit, many of the wounds were self inflicted there wasn?t much room in the excuse box as the season ensued. Expectations for this team were just as high as normal regardless of the turmoil surrounding the program. The Buckeye Nation vowed to ?shock the world? in a fashion that only could be executed by a program that had a foundation like the Rock of Gibraltar. Well the ?shock? may not have culminated in the fashion as envisioned but the ending was an exclamation point of Ohio State pride.

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http://lbentleyradio.com/2011/11/26/boys-ii-men/
 
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Changing of the Guard
November 28th, 2011

By LeCharles Bentley

The Ohio State University?s football program is in for a major overhaul with the recent hiring of Urban Meyer. New coaches strive to make the program undeniably their own through the obvious coaching staff changes and for the most part fiscally irresponsible cosmetic changes. Unfortunately, the assistant coaching changes is always the dirty laundry that has to be addressed first and foremost. If I were to take over a program, I would be naturally inclined to want my own supporting cast around me.

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http://bentleyradio.com/2011/11/28/changing-of-the-guard/

Offensive Line First Order for Meyer
November 28th, 2011
By LeCharles Bentley

Through all of the Urban Meyer excitement the potential influence on the current roster has been overlooked. It?s fully anticipated for Urban?s presence to have an immediate impact in a few critical areas, such as recruiting. But the current roster of players may not be exactly what Urban is used to having at his disposal at one critical position.

The high water mark of individual success along the Buckeye offensive line lineage is astronomically high. But when we examine performance outside of a singular scope, the offensive line play at Ohio State has been sub par over the last several years to say the least. Many will logically place blame on the offensive line coach although the tell of the tape isn?t told through a single individual. Some of the cross can and should be carried by the offensive line coach but the bulk of the blame is found in the recruiting department.

Buckeye fans have had their hopes dashed each year with the promise of the ?next? Orlando Pace or Korey Stringer walking through the doors with each recruiting class. Only to be left with Orlando Pace?s physical clone but the antithesis of his on field abilities. It?s only natural to be excited when there are four or five stars placed after an incoming recruit?s name that?s six foot forever and shares the same scale weight of a KIA. Coaches constantly fall for the measurable while ignoring the obvious which is the film. And I?m not referring to film within the context of a few highlight clips but extensive game study that used to take place when great discoveries were made in recruiting.

With the current crop of offensive linemen, Urban Meyer will need to immediately address the trenches before any other position.

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http://bentleyradio.com/2011/11/28/offensive-line-first-order-for-meyer/
 
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The Ohio Supreme Court will not hear an appeal from the Browns seeking to force NFL arbitration to halt a lawsuit on former offensive lineman LeCharles Bentley?s career-ending staph infection.

The Wednesday decision keeps the case in Cuyahoga County court in Cleveland.

The team sought to appeal a July ruling by an Ohio appeals court that said the issue isn?t related to the NFL collective bargaining agreement and can be handled in county court.

The Browns had the support of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Cleveland Partnership economic development group.

Bentley says he contracted the infection while rehabbing from a 2006 knee injury at the team?s suburban Cleveland facility. The team is accused of failing to tell Bentley about unsanitary conditions and other players who contracted staph.
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http://www.ohio.com/sports/nfl/nfl-notebook-1.248189
 
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Ohio State football: Bentley tutoring linemen
By Tim May
The Columbus Dispatch Friday March 9, 2012

When Michael Brewster sought to improve his stock for the upcoming NFL draft, he turned to LeCharles Bentley, like Brewster a former All-America center at Ohio State.

Bentley?s credentials include winning the 2001 Rimington Trophy as the nation?s top center and a four-year NFL career that included two Pro Bowl appearances before it was derailed by injury. Since leaving the NFL, Bentley has operated the O-Line Academy in the Cleveland suburb of Avon, where for the past several winters, he has invited a select group of no more than five aspiring pro linemen to train.

?He?s really made me realize how high my ceiling is, that I have so much potential I haven?t come close to reaching,? said Brewster, who will be among the dozen or so Buckeyes players participating in pro-day workouts for NFL scouts today at OSU.

?It seems like he gives me a little bit of new knowledge every day ? not just about playing the position, but about getting my body ready for playing, from training to my diet, and about life and the challenges I?ll face off the field.?

To Bentley, that synopsis is proof that Brewster is absorbing the full curriculum of his holistic approach.

?I?m interested in both the physiological and the psychological aspects,? Bentley said. ?The guys I work with, I pick them, and they end up becoming like family to me. I develop relationships that go well beyond the on-the-field things.?

He can regale them with personal tales of the highs, lows and, finally, the cleaver of the sport.

?Obviously, my career ended in a fashion that didn?t sit too well with me,? said Bentley, 32.

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http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2012/03/09/bentley-tutoring-linemen.html
 
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Supreme Court Won?t Hear Browns Appeal In Bentley Case
The Associated Press
April 16, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The Supreme Court won?t hear an appeal from the Cleveland Browns in the team?s attempt to force into NFL arbitration a lawsuit by former center LeCharles Bentley over his career-ending staph infection.

The high court?s decision Monday keeps the case ? and lawsuit ? in Cuyahoga County court in Cleveland.

The team had appealed a July ruling by an Ohio appeals court that said the issue isn?t related to the NFL collective bargaining agreement and can be handled in county court.

Bentley says he contracted the infection while rehabbing from a 2006 knee injury at the team?s suburban Cleveland facility. The team is accused of failing to tell Bentley about unsanitary conditions and other players who contracted staph.

The team argued that state and federal laws support arbitration over litigation.
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