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OL Chad Lindsay (stepping away from football)

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http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/con...es/2014/04/buckeyes----lindsay-statement.html
Lindsay plans to enroll at Ohio State in June

Lineman Chad Lindsay, with a degree from Alabama in hand, said last week he is jumping to Ohio State for his final season of football eligibility this year, and he said in a prepared statement today he is eager to get started.

“Now I am looking forward to enrolling at The Ohio State University in June to play for the Buckeyes and to pursue a master’s degree,” Lindsay said in the statement. “My goals are to compete hard, to be a productive member of the team and to do whatever I can to help Ohio State win championships.”

Originally from The Woodlands, Texas, where he was a highly rated recruit in 2010, Lindsay started four games at center for Alabama last season as a junior. He had been expected to be the frontrunner for the starting job this year.

But he announced over the winter he planned to take advantage of an NCAA rule which allows players who have graduated to transfer to another school and play immediately without having to sit out a season. He is the first to transfer in that way to Ohio State, which he picked over Michigan, Oklahoma and others.

“I will always be a proud graduate of the University of Alabama (summer 2013) and I will always be appreciative to the coaching staff for the privilege of playing for the Crimson Tide,” Lindsay said in the statement. “I was fortunate to have had great teammates and to have been a part of an incredible four-year run of success.”

How Lindsay will fit into the mix on an Ohio State offensive line which lost four starters from 2013 remains to be seen. Coach Urban Meyer said after spring drills there were just two bonafide starters on the line at that point, lone returnee Taylor Decker, who has moved from right tackle to left tackle, and guard Pat Elflein.

Immediate speculation has Lindsay as a primary candidate at center, where Jacoby Boren and Billy Price battled in the spring to replace the departed Corey Linsley. But Lindsay also is adept at playing guard, where Tony Underwood and former defensive tackle Joel Hale are among those in the running for that other starting spot.
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buckandguinfan said:
Had a party this weekend and two scUM fans in my inner circle were talking. My brother-in-law (one of them) makes it a point to say stuff like this around (he revels in the fact that I'm a big JT fan and loves to rub my nose in it in a passive-aggressive kind of way). That's what I heard, "Lindsay couldn't get into Michigan, so he went to OSU." The typical elitest scUM attitude that OSU is a cakewalk and easy to get into. I was too busy to get into it with him, and it, frankly, isn't worth my time.

Had to get that off my chest. This is just a reminder as to why I will never, ever, root for scUM in anything against anyone ever again.
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Just ask them if they're naive or stupid. Any Michigan fan who thinks that UM doesn't take some kids with 800 SATs and/or elementary school reading levels and hide them out in a sports management or phys. ed major is clearly one or the other. If Michigan's football players were even close to their general admissions standards, they'd be the highest in major college football (Stanford included), and Michigan would be rubbing those stats in everybody's face. Instead, they refused to release anything (SAT/ACT scores or any internal aptitude testing) for the recent US Today article on the subject.

And out of curiosity, is BiL an actual graduate of UM or is he just another stinkin' Wal-Mart Wolverine living vicariously through other people?
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Just ask them if they're naive or stupid. Any Michigan fan who thinks that UM doesn't take some kids with 800 SATs and/or elementary school reading levels and hide them out in a sports management or phys. ed major is clearly one or the other. If Michigan's football players were even close to their general admissions standards, they'd be the highest in major college football (Stanford included), and Michigan would be rubbing those stats in everybody's face. Instead, they refused to release anything (SAT/ACT scores or any internal aptitude testing) for the recent US Today article on the subject.

And out of curiosity, is BiL an actual graduate of UM or is he just another stinkin' Wal-Mart Wolverine living vicariously through other people?
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Everyone knows scUM has a lower under graduate academic standard for their football players, and most football players are majoring in a worthless degree called General Studies; even Jim Harbaugh called them out on that a few years ago.
http://www.mlive.com/wolverines/aca...f/2008/03/athletes_safe_harbor_is_genera.html

Remember Lindsay applied to scUM's Graduate school; just maybe (but I don't know for sure), the Graduate School has a higher standard than General Admissions.
 
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Just ask them if they're naive or stupid. Any Michigan fan who thinks that UM doesn't take some kids with 800 SATs and/or elementary school reading levels and hide them out in a sports management or phys. ed major is clearly one or the other. If Michigan's football players were even close to their general admissions standards, they'd be the highest in major college football (Stanford included), and Michigan would be rubbing those stats in everybody's face. Instead, they refused to release anything (SAT/ACT scores or any internal aptitude testing) for the recent US Today article on the subject.

And out of curiosity, is BiL an actual graduate of UM or is he just another stinkin' Wal-Mart Wolverine living vicariously through other people?
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Thanks for the rebuttal - I will be sure to use this as the subject will inevitably come up again.

Actually, BiL is the worst kind - born within a stone's throw of OSU, C-Bus resident his whole life except for military service, but a lifelong scUM fan. His grandfather (paternal) is a MSU grad, and they lived in barracks on MSU's campus when my father-in-law was a child. Needless to say GiL and FiL are huge Sparty fans. So, if not an OSU fan (maternal grandfather was a big OSU fan/supporter/season ticket holder), why not MSU instead of scUM. He's tried to explain it to me and it's too long to get into, but it doesn't wash with me. I think it comes down to wanting to be the contrarian and feel you have license to complain about OSU fans while living in ten minutes from the university.

This makes me that much happier we got Lindsay, and I hope he pancakes every scUM DL that's in his path on the way to a lopsided win over scUM.
 
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buckandguinfan said:
I think it comes down to wanting to be the contrarian and feel you have license to complain about OSU fans while living in ten minutes from the university.
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I feel like "contrarian" explains a lot of scUM fans. Wanting to argue for the sake of arguing.

As for Lindsay, like others have said, I think he's here to start. And if by some reason he's not starting, it only means his presence pushed others enough to jump him. So, this is a win-win situation.
 
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Q&A: Urban Meyer


Q: How much help do you expect from center Chad Lindsay, the transfer from Alabama?

A: I’m hoping a lot. It’s a little bit of a risk, but there’s a pretty good résumé behind him. I talked with coach (Nick) Saban to find out exactly what was going on (with his decision to leave). … He won’t be wide-eyed.

http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/con...reaches-importance-of-culture-in-program.html
 
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