Don't Put Me In, Coach: My Incredible NCAA Journey From The End Of The Bench To The End Of The Bench

by Mark Titus

Anyway, that single play will forever be the proudest moment of my athletic career, which is to say that when I have my midlife crisis in 20 years, I’m almost certainly going to force my future kids to watch this play thousands of times while I repeatedly say to them, “Look how good Daddy was.” Conference play started after the Coppin State game, and we opened with a win at home against Indiana and a win at Illinois, running our record to 13–2. Up next for us was another marquee matchup, this time against fourth-ranked Wisconsin in Madison, yet virtually nobody in Ohio cared because the Ohio State football team had lost to Florida in the BCS Championship the night before and at Ohio State vandalizing cars and setting couches on fire in response to a football loss (and a win for that matter) takes precedence over everything else. Still, after losing our first two big road games of the year, everyone on the team agreed that this game would be a good barometer for us, even though we had no idea that a