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LB Mike D'Andrea (official thread)

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No word on a possible 6th year yet. Tress sounded dissapointed to report the news but did not get into details. He sounded like right now their biggest concern is his future health and well-being and his football future was 2nd.
 
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Latest setback ends D'Andrea's Ohio State career
By Ken Gordon
The Columbus Dispatch
Thursday, August 31, 2006 1:18 PM

Mike D’Andrea, shown here in practice last year, will have another surgery on his right knee that will officially end his Ohio State career.

The injury-plagued career of Ohio State linebacker Mike D'Andrea is over, coach Jim Tressel said yesterday.

On his weekly radio show, Tressel said D'Andrea's surgically repaired right knee has bothered him to the point that he likely will have another surgery soon. As a fifth-year senior, that would end his playing days.

"It's a condition he has not been able to shake," Tressel said. "Just for his future, he needs to have a surgery."

D'Andrea, 22, came out of Avon Lake in the 2002 recruiting class as one of the top linebackers in the nation. He was considered a bigger prize than A.J. Hawk and Bobby Carpenter, who were first-round NFL draft picks in April.

But D'Andrea injured a shoulder late in 2003, his sophomore season, and then suffered a major knee injury during practice Sept. 24, 2004. He had surgery shortly afterward.

Since then, he has appeared only briefly in four games. He was granted a medical redshirt last year in hopes he could play this season.

D'Andrea participated in the first 10 days or so of preseason camp, but by the team's Aug. 18 jersey scrimmage, he was sidelined.

In 30 career games, including four starts, D'Andrea totaled 44 tackles, one sack and one forced fumble.
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http://www.dispatch.com/football/football.php?story=209183
 
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SanClementeBuck said:
Talk about a persistent Buckeye! MDA stuck with all the grind, when perhaps others would have thrown in the towel. Shows his character. My guess is: he will have a bright future outside of sports.
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Agreed. Or a bright future within in it in an assistant or coaching capacity?

Either way though, it is to the future Mike should look now. Sad though it certainly is that he has ended his football career as a player, there is surely more that he takes from Ohio State than scars. He certainly gave more than the 30 game statistics in trying so hard to fulfill his potential and make a full and healthy return.
 
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