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C Seth McLaughlin (All B1G, 1st Team All-American, 1st Team Academic All-American, 2024 Rimington Award, National Champion)

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LordJeffBuck said:
Seth McLaughlin joins Randy Gradishar (1973) as the only Buckeye football players to earn first team football All American and first team academic All American in the same season.
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his wiki page is missing this info, as well as his rimington trophy and his being named a semi-finalist for the campbell award.

the rimington is listed in the external links section, though.

also, looking through the campbell trophy recipient list (wanted source to submit updates to wikipedia), i noticed not one single name from tsun. fitting... :slappy:
 
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LordJeffBuck said:
Seth McLaughlin joins Randy Gradishar (1973) as the only Buckeye football players to earn first team football All American and first team academic All American in the same season.
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Was Donovan Jackson not first team football AA? He also got first team Academic AA along with Seth, so I was curious. Either way, huge congrats to Seth!
 
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restless said:


Seth calls Caleb "big bro" when they were together at Bama. Imagine being referred to as that by a 4th year guy as a freshman. Wow!
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Highly recommend this video. Seth is an all time dude. Love his comments about Buckeye Grove and pretty much everything else. Especially like the part where the host baits him when talking about the fans and The Game.

Seth had his address leaked on Twitter after a bad game at Bama
Crazy how they aren't Lunatics.
 
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BUCKYLE said:
Highly recommend this video. Seth is an all time dude. Love his comments about Buckeye Grove and pretty much everything else. Especially like the part where the host baits him when talking about the fans and The Game.

Seth had his address leaked on Twitter after a bad game at Bama
Crazy how they aren't Lunatics.
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Agreed.
Fantastic interview and discussion.
 
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“HE IS SUCH A TREMENDOUS LEADER.” Seth McLaughlin was one of six transfers thispast season for Ohio State, and even though his season ended early due to an Achilles tear, it’s clear the impact he made on the 2024 Buckeyes was substantial.

Over the weekend, McLaughlin appeared on the Cube Show with Cole Cubelic to discuss leaving Alabama and winning a national championship at Ohio State. While the entire interview deserves attention, I have limited myself to three things that stood out to me as I listened:


On Ohio State’s players-only meeting​

“Coach Day made it different. It was a players-only meeting with Coach Day in there. He is such a tremendous leader. I don’t think a lot of people give him credit for that. He lives and dies with his guys in the room. A lot of people respect that and love Coach Day for that.
“But that meeting – it really did change in that one meeting, man. Everybody in there was holding each other accountable, they were holding Coach Day accountable and there were a lot of great conversations that went on over a couple of hours with a bunch of people speaking from all different age groups and position groups. It was really just about getting people to buy back into what we (could) do in the postseason.
“After losing that (Michigan) game, you know you have a playoff game coming up. If you don’t get everybody on the same page, it’s hard to go out and practice for those two or three weeks, knowing that people don’t even care if we win this last game. … The guys in that room, there was a ton of senior leadership on that team. They did a good job of getting everybody to come back to that goal and realize that we can win, and here are the changes we’re gonna make, and here’s what we’re gonna do differently and here’s what we learned from the regular season.”
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On what separates Day from other coaches​

“When he’s in the locker room and in these meetings, he wears his heart on his sleeve. Like I said, he lives and dies with his players. We get a lot of s— because the Ohio State fan base is very enthusiastic about (the team). … When you win, it’s great. When you lose, it’s bad. But that’s why you play college football, and that’s why Ohio State is such a big deal because people care a lot about it.
“But Coach Day gets just as much of it as the players do. It’s like a bond formed through that. He walks through the locker room every day. He says, ‘What’s up?’ to the guys. He has a genuine relationship with everybody on the team. It doesn’t feel very transactional. He’s a great ball coach. He has a great history of winning. He can adapt – he adapts to what his players need, he adapts to what the program needs. He’s just a tremendous leader.”
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On leaving Alabama for Ohio State​

“My last year at Bama was a crazy year. I didn’t play my best football. I was just struggling a little bit adapting to that role with a new quarterback, new offensive coordinator and a bunch of new guys on the line. I was just eating off more than I could chew with the leadership aspect and getting everybody on the same page. I felt like I had become stagnant in my development and not by anything that my coaches did, but there were a ton of younger guys that needed to be developed to get on the field and play. When you’re the guy who always knows what he’s doing, there’s a lot more coaching on what people are doing at that point than how to do it.
“I just knew I kind of wanted to leave and get more development on myself. I thought I could do that if I switched programs. All of those thoughts culminated after the Rose Bowl Game. I get back in the locker room, I check my phone and everything is blowing up, kind of placing the whole loss on me. I see my address get leaked on Twitter. It was kind of a surreal moment. I had those conversations I needed to with my position coach and head coach. I talked to Coach (Nick) Saban. He didn’t want me to leave, but he told me he really understood why I would want to, but he wished I would come back. I told him, ‘I’m not gonna do that.’ I had to go and find a new place to grow and become the player I knew I could be. I’m glad it worked out that way.
“(Ohio State) was the first school that reached out to me. I sat down with Coach (Justin) Frye, went through film, and he told me what I had to do to correct my weaknesses in my game, showed me the drill tape that was gonna address those issues and there was no other fit that was better. … They brought me in and knew that I could compete. Without that other kid, Carson Hinzman, competing against him – he’s a freak in the weight room, freak on the field, a really good football player – so competing with him the whole offseason and even in fall camp for the starting spot, it really furthered my game, and it was exactly what I needed to get to where I was at the end of the season. I’m glad it all worked out that way. I don’t think that would have happened at Alabama.”
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I will miss McLaughlin as Ohio State’s center. He was tough as nails on the field and an incredible leader off of it. It seems, however, that McLaughlin believes the Buckeyes will be in good hands with Hinzman, whom McLaughlin called a “freak” in the weight room and on the field. He certainly proved that during Ohio State’s championship run, and I hope to see him continue to prove it in 2025!

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Skull Session: Ryan Day Calls Lack of “Enforcement” One of College Football’s Biggest Problems, Seth McLaughlin is “Glad It Worked Out” Transferring to Ohio State

Ryan Day calls lack of “enforcement” one of college football’s biggest problems and Seth McLaughlin says Ohio State helped him “become the player I knew I could be.”
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restless said:


Seth calls Caleb "big bro" when they were together at Bama. Imagine being referred to as that by a 4th year guy as a freshman. Wow!
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really great interview and some cool stories about downs and jj…

seth… grown-ass man!

i couldn’t help getting a knot in my stomach hearing him talk about what it means to have a tree in buckeye grove and reflecting on what happened with him after the rose bowl… he even seemed to get a bit choked up bringing up those ugly memories and how much he grew as a result. he said he appreciates his time in tuscaloosa but that his coming to osu and this last season was “something special. it was from up above. it was a god thing”.

we were so fortunate to have this guy wearing the scarlet and gray.
 
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There are so many amazing individual stories surrounding this year's team that I think it is easy for a story like Seth's to get somewhat overlooked. What an amazing addition he was to this team in pretty much every way imaginable. Only bummer is we only got to have him as a Buckeye for one year (but of course we'll take that, just saying we will miss him). His presence also had to help Hinzman get better, which will pay off next year in addition to this year.

He is a really gifted speaker and very intelligent, I can see how he won a Rimington and was an Academic AA. Really hoping he thrives at the next level. If nothing else, he's always going to have a Buckeye tree in the Grove and be remembered as a national champion.
 
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RB07OSU said:
There are so many amazing individual stories surrounding this year's team that I think it is easy for a story like Seth's to get somewhat overlooked. What an amazing addition he was to this team in pretty much every way imaginable. Only bummer is we only got to have him as a Buckeye for one year (but of course we'll take that, just saying we will miss him). His presence also had to help Hinzman get better, which will pay off next year in addition to this year.

He is a really gifted speaker and very intelligent, I can see how he won a Rimington and was an Academic AA. Really hoping he thrives at the next level. If nothing else, he's always going to have a Buckeye tree in the Grove and be remembered as a national champion.
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I always get choked up when I hear guys talk about generational shit. Like when he said he could take his kids to Buckeye Grove and show them his tree. I'm a sucker for that shit
 
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