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Look under the hood of the brotherhood that Ohio State football players like to reference and you’ll find some brotherly shove among the love. These guys push each other to get better, and competition can burn, even before anyone steps on the field.
Freshman quarterback Lincoln Kienholz would not be human if he did not feel a sharp pinch after hearing from coach Ryan Day in January that the Buckeyes would be adding transfer quarterbacks Will Howard from Kansas State and Julian Sayin from Alabama.
It already was going to be a challenge trying to move ahead of Devin Brown on the depth chart, as well as holding off Air Noland, and now there were going to be two more QBs to compete against.
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Where would Kienholz fit in? How would the quarterback room operate with five arms competing for one job? So far, everybody is getting along, but being a brotherhood, well, brothers know how heated things can get in close quarters.
Dec 29, 2023; Arlington, Texas, USA; Ohio State Buckeyes quarterback Lincoln Kienholz (12) walks off the field following the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic against the Missouri Tigers at AT&T Stadium. Ohio State lost 14-3.
The trick is to keep emotions in check, deal in the positives and try to refrain from playing the comparison game.
“Still staying focused on what you want to do and staying positive and confident in what you can do helps,” Kienholz said Monday, the day before spring practice begins. “No one is a perfect quarterback, so there are things you are good at that no one else is good at.”
Kienholz will know more what those things are once spring ball gets underway, but as a former three-sport high school athlete in Pierre, South Dakota, he does not lack confidence in his athletic ability. He…
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Author : The Columbus Dispatch
Publish date : 2024-03-04 19:08:25
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