14 Buckeye greats were enshrined into the Ohio State Athletics Hall of Fame and Gene Smith was named an honorary Varsity O letterwinner on Friday.
Friday night’s honorees included three former Ohio State players: Jim Thorpe Award winner Malcolm Jenkins, All-American center Nick Mangold and starting linebacker/tight end Rick Middleton.
“If you wanted to turn me into an animal, tell me I couldn’t do something,” Jenkins said. “One kid asked me where I was from. When I told him I was from New Jersey, he laughed at me with his boys and said, ‘They can’t play no football in Jersey.’ And the monster came out.” Middleton, who started at linebacker for the 1973 Ohio State football team that gave up only 64 points all season, said he was shocked when he found out he was being inducted into the OSU Athletics Hall of Fame but expressed that he felt that honor belonged more to the entire team than it did to himself.
“It’s an incredible honor,” Ryan said. “Just grateful for the opportunity my family and I were granted in 2006. Eternally grateful to Gene Smith for believing that a Hofstra man could come out to Ohio and lead the Buckeyes. Just grateful for my staff and my team. I think the real magic lies in the relationships with the student-athletes, and that’s where the real magic is in the coaching and the profession. I love the sport, love to coach, so just honored and humbled.
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