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Mike McDaniel was a walk-on at Yale, which immediately tells you two things about the new Dolphins head coach:
-He’s extremely bright. McDaniel got an academic scholarship at the Ivy League school, majored in history and, even while logging 40 hours a week with the football team, never took the path of least resistance in class. Far from it. He signed up for every course that caught his eye — Cold War history, African Art history, Consumer Culture — and dragged his roommates along with him.
“Every college athlete is going to blow off classes, but he wanted to go,” fellow receiver Chandler Henley said. “He wanted to sit in those lectures and wanted to take full advantage of being (at Yale). And it was great. He forced me to be a better student just because he wanted to go and get that information.”
-As a freshman he didn’t have — and the sometimes goofy, always self-effacing McDaniel is the first to note this — an overwhelming football physique. He stood 5-foot-9, wore dark, thick-rimmed glasses and looked more like a nerdy lab partner than a stud athlete.
“I would guess that Mike was probably about 150 pounds — and he didn’t really run really fast either,” said Yale’s head coach at the time, Jack Siedlecki. “He was one of those guys that you thought, ‘Eh, he’s not going to be around here really long.’”
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