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An Ohio State student who plays trumpet in the marching band could be on the field during the football games next year after nailing a 55-yard-field goal after a band practice.
(Marvin Fong, The Plain Dealer)
COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio State University marching band member could be a member of the football team next year after nailing a 55-yard field goal.
He earned a tryout offer.
The band, which flew today to Arizona for Saturday's Fiesta Bowl, had finished an indoor practice on Tuesday when trumpet player Austin Brizee bet a friend a burrito from Chipotle he could kick a field goal, USA Today reported.
Brizee, a junior from Lyndhurst, set the ball 55 yards from a net and drilled the kick.
The band posted a video on Twitter and tagged head coach Urban Meyer and special teams coach Kerry Coombs, suggesting Brizee could help in the College Football Playoff semifinal against Clemson.
Eron Hodges, the Buckeyes' assistant director of player personnel, responded Wednesday morning with a tryout invitation:
It would not be unprecedented.
Tyler Durbin, a senior walk-on from Fairfax, Va., currently handles Ohio State's kicking duties.
Durbin kicked a 23-yard field goal in the final seconds of the fourth quarter of the Ohio State-Michigan game that sent it to overtime, where the Buckeyes eventually won 30-27.
Brizee told elevenwarriors.com that he's never kicked before, but he did grow up playing soccer and other sports.