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LS Jake McQuaide (Pro-Bowl 2x, Minnesota Vikings)

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Jacob McQuaide (6-3, 215) has been listed as the starting Long Snapper on the Depth Chart to start the summer practice sessions.

He is a redshirt freshman from Cincinnati Elder who spent last season on the scout team.

Dimitrios Makridis, last year's backup to Drew Norman, is still on the team (he was there on picture day Thursday); but he's not listed in the top 2 spots as long snapper.
 
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McQuaide Hoping to be Next Buckeye You Forget
By John Porentas

Ohio State returns one of the most veteran teams it has ever fielded in 2008. Experience returns at every position including those at which they lost starters last season. The lone exception to that rule is at the long snapper position.

The line of great long snappers at OSU is impressive. Dimitrious Makridis performed well last season, particularly in rain-soaked Michigan Stadium where a bad snap may have cost the Buckeyes a game. It didn't happen. Before Makridis Drew "Chucky" Norman was as reliable as clockwork as OSU's guy over the ball on special teams. Before him, Kyle Andrews was OSU's long snapper through the 2003 season. OSU long snapper Kevin Houser actually had a long NFL career at that position after playing almost no time at all at tight end during his OSU career.

If that list of long snappers jogged your memory a little, be thankful. Long snappers, good ones at least, are just like holders, the most forgettable players on any roster. You only remember them if they make mistakes, and if you didn't remember those names, it means they were probably doing their jobs very well.

Jake McQuaide wants to be the next player you forget. McQuaide will be a redshirt sophomore next season and is currently the odds-on favorite to handle at least part of OSU's long-snapping this fall.
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Congrats to Jake for being placed on scholarship.

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No longer paying their way

Five walk-ons have been awarded scholarships. Four are seniors: receivers Ben Kascandi and Kyle Ruhl, offensive lineman D.R. Ebner and tight end J.D. Larson. The happiest player probably is long snapper Jake McQuaide. A third-year sophomore, he now will have his final three years of eligibility paid for.
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Meet a Buckeye: LS Jake McQuaide

Saturday, October 11, 2008 3:18 AM
By Ken Gordon


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
His name conjures up an image of a Western movie hero -- long, tall Jake McQuaide. But, alas, his interests don't lie in acting, but in designing airplanes. That's his major -- aeronautical engineering. For now, though, as the Ohio State long-snapper, he's concerned more with the flight path of the football as it leaves his hands and travels to holder Jon Thoma. He recently was awarded a scholarship. That was a huge deal because the Cincinnati Elder graduate has three years of eligibility remaining.

Q How excited were your parents when they heard about the scholarship?
A They were ecstatic. It was huge; my sister (Katie) is getting married next summer, so that will help with the expenses.
Q Have you noticed any big changes in your daily life since you got the scholarship?
A Just a few extra meals (from the training table). And I went and got my books the other day, and that was a big difference. I felt bad about it after I was there.
Q You can just walk into the bookstore and get them without paying, right? Did it feel like stealing?
A You just have to give them back at the end of the quarter instead of having to pay for them. It's definitely different than going in and buying them.

Continued..............
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Senior Spotlight - McQuaide
08/19/2010

Longsnapper, Jake McQuaide, has high expectations for the experienced Ohio State football team and relies on his other teammates to get each other through camp.

?This team is an experienced team,? said McQuaide. ?It is probably as excited as I have seen a team going into camp. Everyone is usually excited but everyone feels a little special about this year?

McQuaide is looking for the team to go out on the field and prove what everyone thinks about them. He is not worried about what everyone is saying but knows ?it comes down to whether or not we win every week?.

Though camp is tough for all of the players, they are relying on the other guys on the team to get each other through it. McQuaide believes that helps team development as well.
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Ohio State Football News: Senior Spotlight - McQuaide
 
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Flying colors
Ohio State long snapper Jake McQuaide is fascinated with jet engines, and his hard work in math and science should help his career take off
Friday, December 24, 2010
By Tim May
The Columbus Dispatch

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SNAPSHOTS: Senior Jake McQuaide, who began his Ohio State career as a walk-on, earned a scholarship three years ago and has been the No. 1 long snapper for three seasons. (Neal C. Lauron, Dispatch)

Jake McQuaide has a fascination for things that spin fast and move through the air with great velocity.

For starters, he's the long snapper for the Ohio State football team, and his thankless job requires him to zip the ball with pinpoint accuracy to the place-kick holder or punter. He's a vital part of either one of those plays but anonymous to most of the world - unless something goes wrong.

In addition, McQuaide just earned his degree in aeronautical engineering, with a primary interest in jet turbine engines. If a shot as a long snapper with an NFL team doesn't pan out after he's done with the Sugar Bowl on Jan.4 against Arkansas, he wants to make his life work in the design and manufacture of jet engines - again, one of those near-anonymous jobs, unless something goes wrong.

"I really am interested in gas turbine engines, like any engine you would see on any plane," McQuaide said. "Companies like General Electric, Pratt & Whitney, Rolls-Royce, any of those places."

It could be said, perhaps, that McQuaide found his calling by taking a flier.

"A friend of mine and I in our freshman year, neither one of us knew what we wanted to do in terms of a major," McQuaide said. "So we'd go on the Ohio State website and just scroll through there. It seemed like there were a thousand or more different majors you could choose.

"I took an introduction class on aeronautical engineering pretty much on a whim, and it just blew my mind that we were actually learning about how an airplane flies on the first day of my sophomore year. From then on, I was hooked."

He didn't pursue becoming a pilot, even though he said he'd always loved flying. "But I fell in love more with the analytical stuff," he said.

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http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/buckeyextra/stories/gameday/2010/week17/cover_story.html
 
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Ohio State Buckeyes' long snapper Jake McQuaide is ready to soar from center's stage
Published: Thursday, December 30, 2010
By Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer


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Jake McQuaide has fired back every kick and punt snap for the Buckeyes during the past three seasons.

New Orleans -- Jake McQuaide's football senior project at Ohio State will be completed inside the Superdome in five days. Sure, beating Arkansas in the Sugar Bowl won't be easy, but it can't be as difficult as his other senior project -- designing an airplane.

The fifth-year long snapper from Cincinnati, who has fired back every kick and punt snap for the Buckeyes during the past three seasons, navigated two all-consuming passions at Ohio State -- football and aeronautical engineering -- before graduating in December with a 3.6 grade point average. Along with players such as All-American cornerback Chimdi Chekwa (accounting) and starting defensive tackle Dexter Larimore (finance), McQuaide waded through a major that didn't always neatly fit into the practice schedules or lifestyle of an OSU football player, while earning what many teammates see as his rightful title as the smartest player on the team.

"As much as I want to say I'm the smartest on the team, I would say Jake McQuaide," Chekwa said. "He doesn't really talk about what his major is, but I think he might be one of the smartest guys."

McQuaide was certainly the best football player among the fewer than 70 aeronautical engineering majors in his class.

"His football schedule complicated things sometimes for him, but I don't remember a time when he couldn't do something," said Joe Balla, a friend and fellow aero major who was part of McQuaide's group for their yearlong final project last school year. "He is a smart man. He would come to our meetings a little stinky sometimes."

McQuaide didn't have a choice. Football to homework, and homework to football, was a regular routine. As a specialist, McQuaide didn't have as much football homework-watching film -- as someone like a quarterback or a linebacker. If he had, he doesn't know if he'd have made it through his major.

"It would be bad. I was already doing at least one all-nighter a week," McQuaide said, "But if you loved it, you could do it. But you would really have to love both things."

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http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2010/12/ohio_state_buckeyes_long_snapp.html
 
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