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Kris Robert Hughes (True Buckeye)

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    • I didn't see this posted yet. A very well written article.

    Elevenwarriors

    One Day in September


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    Dwayne Harrington, Anthony Harless, Kris Hughes & Matt Levy in Ohio Stadium.

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    One day in 1990 Kris Robert Hughes decided he wanted to be a Buckeye.
    His intent was noble: He wanted to go to Ohio State simply because he loved Big Ten football. Yes, really. He absolutely loved it.
    There would be no better way to get to Big Ten football games than to be a student at Ohio State. He also knew that he didn?t want to attend a small college.
    So Kris made the trip from Long Island to finally see Ohio State in person for himself. He got all of the information he needed to confirm his decision.
    His parents had no reason to say no. Everything was coming up Columbus.
    And as luck would have it, his Michigan State-bound girlfriend?s father had been a captain for one of Ohio State?s very first ice hockey teams in the mid-1960s and was able to arrange a tryout for him to walk on to the team.
    Kris had been playing hockey longer than he had known how to read. This decision was going to be too easy.
    He was only 19 years old he had his whole life planned: He would go to Ohio State, play hockey, study Finance, enjoy a successful career on Wall Street and then retire to the mountains by his 40th birthday.
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    Ramzy;1977204; said:
    Appreciate the kind words.

    Kris' story has been in the back of my head for years and I struggled to come up with a way to marry it with his passion for Ohio State without forcing it. Once the parallel this year to the 2001 season materialized it started to all come together.
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    Thanks for writing it.

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    Ramzy;1977204; said:
    Appreciate the kind words.

    Kris' story has been in the back of my head for years and I struggled to come up with a way to marry it with his passion for Ohio State without forcing it. Once the parallel this year to the 2001 season materialized it started to all come together.
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    Ramzy, was Kris a friend of yours or did you come upon his story some other way?
     
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