Gordon Monson writes about Bam Olaseni, the Utes' tackle from across the pond.
Utah offensive lineman Bamidele Olaseni lies in confetti on the field after Utah defeated Oregon 38-10 to win the Pac-12 Conference championship game in Las Vegas.It’s what he does. It’s his job, one at which he’s quite accomplished, big rig slamming into big rig, again and again and again. He calls it “fun.”
For one, the Utes’ senior left tackle is a Brit. Give the man a spot of tea and watch him create open lanes. There aren’t a lot of top college linemen, nor NFL stars, who talk with the accent Olaseni does, who have his background, who hail from a place that is far from, say, south Florida or L.A. or the American heartland. His size — upper-limit even for the modern game — is just one feature that sets him apart. And it does set him apart. I mean, look at the mountain that is him. The man’s dimensions spread out, up and down, left and right.
Add Bam, who became a raw-but-promising junior college All-American just three years after taking up the game, to the list now. He came to the Utes thereafter, pursued by other top-drawer programs, and was promptly suspended by the NCAA for a misstep that Olaseni still doesn’t understand. “I don’t know,” he says. “It’s in the past.”
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