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Watson, Crick & A Twist
Time to play some what if games.
Let's start from the Lanese recruitment, when he was being courted as a Flanker by Michigan, and a TB or flanker at Ohio State, then add that his choice was first TSUN.
Wind the clock forward some 20 odd years. Imagine that Scout, Rivals and all the rest of the recruiting focussed internet sites were available for Mike and his family to peruse during his recruitment. He would then know just exactly how deep that backfield at Ohio State would be on entering campus. Who knows, perhaps that revelation would be his epiphany rather than waking up and being a born-again Buckeye.
In any event, I'm glad that it worked out the other way. Mike was a class act on the field and clearly continued to be a class act of the same. Great read about one of my favorite Buckeye receivers.
Let's start from the Lanese recruitment, when he was being courted as a Flanker by Michigan, and a TB or flanker at Ohio State, then add that his choice was first TSUN.
Wind the clock forward some 20 odd years. Imagine that Scout, Rivals and all the rest of the recruiting focussed internet sites were available for Mike and his family to peruse during his recruitment. He would then know just exactly how deep that backfield at Ohio State would be on entering campus. Who knows, perhaps that revelation would be his epiphany rather than waking up and being a born-again Buckeye.
In any event, I'm glad that it worked out the other way. Mike was a class act on the field and clearly continued to be a class act of the same. Great read about one of my favorite Buckeye receivers.
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FSU's Myron Rolle is choosing Rhodes Scholar interview over game.
Rolle to possibly miss the Nov. 22 game at Maryland to interview for the Rhodes Scholarship.
FSU's Myron Rolle is choosing Rhode Scholar interview over game. - Stewart Mandel - SI.com
Sounds like Rolle is a kid with a good head on his shoulders, but might as well also take the opportunity to champion one of our own (which I know BayBuck was eluding to in Rolle's thread
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"It is believed that no major-level football player has won the award since 1985."
Wow. Congrats to Myron on being named a finalist...and congrats to Mr. Lanese for being in a class all his own for so long.
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Rolle to possibly miss the Nov. 22 game at Maryland to interview for the Rhodes Scholarship.
FSU's Myron Rolle is choosing Rhode Scholar interview over game. - Stewart Mandel - SI.com
Sounds like Rolle is a kid with a good head on his shoulders, but might as well also take the opportunity to champion one of our own (which I know BayBuck was eluding to in Rolle's thread
)"It is believed that no major-level football player has won the award since 1985."
Wow. Congrats to Myron on being named a finalist...and congrats to Mr. Lanese for being in a class all his own for so long.
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Buckskin86
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You?re Stepping into Manhood Right Now
25 Years Ago: Mike Lanese
By Joe - September 3rd, 2009
The summer is over and it?s almost time to kick off the new season. As a result, we are winding up this series on the 1984 Ohio State football team with a special treat: an interview. The Honorary Captain for the Navy game is former wide receiver Mike Lanese, a starter on the 1984 squad. It was his first year as a starter, and he finished 3rd on the team in receptions. Lanese also started as a senior in 1985 and was a team captain that season. In addition to his football accomplishments, he was also impressive off the field as a 2-time Academic All-American and Rhodes Scholar.
11W: When you think back to the 1984 season, do you think of it as a season of great accomplishments, or do you most remember the disappointments and the near misses?
Leaping tall buildings and Michigan linebackers
The Catch?sorry Brad Cochran but you got robbed.
Lanese: I think it?s both, really. As a team, we saw remarkable progress across the board. We were nationally ranked and respected. And we had tremendous talent on both sides of the ball ? guys who?ve become legends at Ohio State and beyond. But as I gained distance and perspective from that team, I started to become a little disappointed that we didn?t take advantage of a wonderful opportunity. Not many teams have a legitimate chance to win a National Championship. Some guys never play for a team with a shot. We had more talent in 1984 than in any other year of my career. Guys like Keith Byars, Pepper Johnson, Cris Carter, Jim Lachey. All that talent and we just couldn?t pull it together. Maybe it just wasn?t meant to be, or the stars weren?t aligned properly, or the football gods simply deemed us unworthy. There are thousands of things we could have done differently, and the what if?s can drive you crazy. In any case, here we are 25 years later and I?m still frustrated about it.
25 Years Ago: Mike Lanese | Eleven Warriors
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyAllOX2Exg]YouTube - Mike Lanese 20yd TD catch - Colorado 1985[/ame]
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Buckskin86
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Time & Change: Mike Lanese
Former OSU receiver was Rhodes scholar, served in military, now in business
Updated: July 19, 2012
By Brad Bournival | BuckeyeNation
Mike LaneseOhio State UniversityMike Lanese teamed up with Cris Carter to give Ohio State a potent passing attack in 1984 and 1985.
Time and Change is a series at BuckeyeNation where we chat with former Ohio State athletes.
Most Ohio State fans remember Mike Lanese as the wide receiver that made the play of the game in a 21-6 win over Michigan in 1984.
Many forget Lanese, 48, was a two-time Academic All-American and Rhodes Scholar, who also studied overseas at Oxford.
As a Civil Affairs Officer for the United States Army Reserve, he was deployed to Iraq in 2010 and is now back home and in the process of getting a new web start-up company off the ground.
He finished his career with the Buckeyes with 72 receptions for 1,170 yards -- a 16.3 yards-per-catch average -- and six touchdowns.
BuckeyeNation caught up with the Mayfield (Ohio) graduate, who now lives in Grove City, Ohio, and is still asked about his catch against the Wolverines almost 28 years ago.
BN: You studied at Oxford after Ohio State. How different is an education in England from one in the states?
Lanese: It's completely different from anything I've experienced and I don't think there's any good equivalent to the method of teaching that you'll find than at a place like Oxford. It's really geared toward a tutorial system, which is kind of a one-one-one, one-on-three or four kind of system.
You get really intensive work with a tutor, or 'don' is what they call them. They actually assign on a weekly basis, essays. They suggest a bunch of readings you should do for your essay topics. The next week, you come back with a written essay and you present your essay out loud, orally in front of your tutor, your don. He or she makes suggestions/corrections and then starts the process again for the following week. It's very different from the American education where you sit in front of a teacher in a classroom and the teacher gives you a lecture. You take notes seriously and then periodically throughout the quarter or semester you take tests where you have to regurgitate the information. It's very different in an Oxford system. You only take one test at the end of your time there. It's a comprehensive exam that covers all the things you studied.
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http://espn.go.com/colleges/osu/sto...er-mike-lanese-home-iraq-starting-new-company
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muffler dragon
Bien. Bien chiludo.
One would think that a certain rabbit would have made that area of C-bus uninhabitable to live in, but I guess there are always outliers.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Great 11W interview:
An Interview with Former Ohio State Great Mike Lanese
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...view-with-former-ohio-state-great-mike-lanese
An Interview with Former Ohio State Great Mike Lanese
http://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-...view-with-former-ohio-state-great-mike-lanese
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