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College football
For love of game: Ohio State juniors decide as one
Chance to return as seniors and play a final year with teammates trumps opportunity to be selected in NFL draft
Friday, January 18, 2008 3:05 AM
By Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
FRED SQUILLANTE | DISPATCH
"Every time you look in your refrigerator and you've only got peanut butter and jelly, you know, it makes you (think) like, 'Dang, I wish I would've taken that 15 million dollars.'" ? Malcolm Jenkins
FRED SQUILLANTE | DISPATCH
"I think in every big game we encounter, people are still going to doubt us; we're still going to get that same stuff we've gotten the whole time." ? James Laurinaitis
FRED SQUILLANTE | DISPATCH
"To win a championship, that's hard. It's the things before you win the championship that you want. You want to be with the guys, you want to have fun, you want to be in college." ? Alex Boone
FRED SQUILLANTE | DISPATCH
"After the game, with all the emotion, you could've asked us right there if we had to choose, a lot of us probably would have said, 'Hey, we're leaving.'" ? Marcus Freeman
This could become the most famous shower scene since Psycho. In the moments after Ohio State lost to Louisiana State in the national championship game, a number of OSU juniors who were considering leaving school a year early found themselves in the locker room shower together.
Then and there, they decided as a group to return.
That was one of the bigger revelations that came out of a recent discussion with James Laurinaitis, Marcus Freeman, Alex Boone and Malcolm Jenkins.
With the stress of their decisions behind them, the mood was relaxed. Laurinaitis arrived late -- and hungry. In short order, he downed an orange, apple, some carrot sticks, grapes and finally a ham sandwich.
Cont...
College football
For love of game: Ohio State juniors decide as one
Chance to return as seniors and play a final year with teammates trumps opportunity to be selected in NFL draft
Friday, January 18, 2008 3:05 AM
By Ken Gordon
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
"Every time you look in your refrigerator and you've only got peanut butter and jelly, you know, it makes you (think) like, 'Dang, I wish I would've taken that 15 million dollars.'" ? Malcolm Jenkins
"I think in every big game we encounter, people are still going to doubt us; we're still going to get that same stuff we've gotten the whole time." ? James Laurinaitis
"To win a championship, that's hard. It's the things before you win the championship that you want. You want to be with the guys, you want to have fun, you want to be in college." ? Alex Boone
"After the game, with all the emotion, you could've asked us right there if we had to choose, a lot of us probably would have said, 'Hey, we're leaving.'" ? Marcus Freeman
This could become the most famous shower scene since Psycho. In the moments after Ohio State lost to Louisiana State in the national championship game, a number of OSU juniors who were considering leaving school a year early found themselves in the locker room shower together.
Then and there, they decided as a group to return.
That was one of the bigger revelations that came out of a recent discussion with James Laurinaitis, Marcus Freeman, Alex Boone and Malcolm Jenkins.
With the stress of their decisions behind them, the mood was relaxed. Laurinaitis arrived late -- and hungry. In short order, he downed an orange, apple, some carrot sticks, grapes and finally a ham sandwich.
Cont...
