football player?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nWhat made me decide to be a football player I think growing up was I had an older brother and an older cousin who lived with me and I\u2019ve been around football my whole life since I was born I mean, we have pictures of me in diapers on my dad\u2019s shoulders at pee wee football practice it\u2019s always been something I\u2019ve loved and been around and something I\u2019ve always wanted to do. So I\u2019m really grateful to get the opportunity to do it.<\/p>\n
What are your favorite moments from your football life?<\/strong><\/p>\nFor my football life, I think number one will be when I got my first scholarship. It will be from Eastern Michigan it was huge to see for my family to just have that weight off our shoulders that we weren\u2019t going to have to pay for college, but actually playing I would say every time in high school when we played our rival Catholic Central those games all stick out to me and then in college I would say two years ago when we were four and eight when we beat UNI in overtime to end the season off with a really big win. I think that projected us to kind of where we are now. Which it\u2019s always been just a good memory for me just to get out in overtime I mean it\u2019s it\u2019s everyone dreams of getting that overtime, we didn\u2019t care about our record at the time we just all wanted to win and it was just awesome to be a part of I think about that all the time<\/p>\n
What are your favorite things about playing football for Youngstown State?<\/strong><\/p>\nMy favorite things about playing for Youngstown State is at this point my career everybody that plays kind of came in with me besides like some transfers here and there on offensive and defense, but for the most part like my whole class that came in 2022 we were the biggest class ever coming in to Youngstown I think we were like 37 kids and just knowing that I get to play with all these guys that I kind of went through college with like Beau is being great as he is, but we\u2019ve been here the whole same time altogether, Des is another one we were in the dorms together. Just everybody Alex McDonald, Colt Sechrest who just got done playing, Joe Sferra who just got done playing. Just all of us and we\u2019ve all been around for so long together that I think our chemistry is just really good and it\u2019s just really fun to be a part of the team whenever everybody you\u2019re playing with is\u00a0your friend like I know everybody.<\/p>\n
If you could hang out with any football player past or present for a day, who and why?<\/strong><\/p>\nI think I\u2019d probably go with Aaron Donald. I get to see what his\u00a0workouts are about every time I hear about him. Just everyone says how crazy his workouts are. Yeah, he\u2019s always known for his intense crazy workouts and he was a beast on the field. No one\u2019s ever really\u00a0done it like him. So that\u2019s someone I\u2019d definitely like to kick it with for sure.<\/p>\n
What is your favorite offensive scheme and why?<\/strong><\/p>\nMy favorite offensive scheme I would have to say is pin and pull for sure because I just love being out in space and it just kind of gives us a lot of freedom at offensive\u00a0line. Because we\u2019re normally attached to a guy in a sense like we were numbers for numbers but with pin and pull it\u2019s kind of just the first guy you see so you get to go out there and show your athleticism a little bit. I\u2019ve always loved it.<\/p>\n
What stands out about your film the most?<\/strong><\/p>\nWhat stands out about my film the most I think It depends what tape you watch if it was\u00a0tackle\u00a0I was really good at run blocking like really good at inside zone getting a guy cut off on the inside going left but I guard I\u2019m really, really good at helping out my center and tackle in pass protection because a lot of the times at guard on a 4 down or a three down rush one of the guards or sometimes even both of them are going to have no one to block so you get to help your guys out and I just love hitting people who aren\u2019t looking legally. It\u2019s some of my favorite stuff to do. I\u2019ve always been a big fan of it and my teammates love knowing that I\u2019m coming to help him out whenever they\u2019re in that standstill.<\/p>\n
What should we know about Shane Keenan the person?<\/strong><\/p>\nI would say I\u2019m very, very personable, which is different from anyone who knew me growing up, growing up I kept to my friend group that was who I talked to, but nowadays, I\u2019m friendly with everybody. I think I can get along with literally any person. I think that\u2019s something new for me. Another thing about me is just when I really put my mind or something I can\u2019t stop myself from doing it if that makes sense like if I wanna do this or that or the other and like the weight room and football field like I don\u2019t have the ability to stop myself before I finish that goal like it\u2019s all that will be on my mind. It\u2019s all I prepare for, it\u2019s all I train for. So I can get really, really narrowed vision on something that I really want done and I love that about myself.<\/p>\n
What do you love the most about the game of football?<\/strong><\/p>\nI think what I liked the most about the game of football is probably the fact that I can hit people legally. And kind of have no repercussions for that. I\u2019ve just always liked hitting people my whole life. I like playing with 11 people because I mean it holds accountability across your whole team like 10 people are doing the right thing but if the 11th person isn\u2019t the whole thing\u2019s gonna fall apart I really like that you\u2019re in that setting where you\u2019re held accountable and and you get to hit people it\u2019s kind of a win-win for me. I love competing.<\/p>\n
Who is the most underrated player played with and why?<\/strong><\/p>\nI think in high school I played with this kid. His name was Tremendous West and he didn\u2019t do anything really for college but he was probably one of the most athletic people I\u2019ve ever seen in real life. He was just crazy, just never really stuck it out. He just never really wanted to go play a college\u00a0sport and then in college I would say Daryan Bowling, who unfortunately had to step away because of concussion protocol. He had too many, but he was one of the most one of my favorite people I\u2019ve ever had\u00a0to play with. He just always had that energy. He was really good at what he did. He was one of those dudes you\u2019d see on the back side of a play blocking his butt off on a DB that would never make a play.\u00a0Just one of those dudes you love to play with, Daryan\u00a0has always been one of my favorite teammates to play withI just wish I could\u2019ve played with him a little bit more.<\/p>\n
What would a team get in a player like you?<\/strong><\/p>\nYou\u2019re going to get everything I mean, where I\u2019m from football is kind of really all I got. I mean it\u2019s either that or work in the mills, so I mean I\u2019ve dedicated my life to this. Everybody says this, but I mean it like I need this. Like this is my life. This is what I want to do in life and there\u2019s nothing that\u2019s going to stop me. I love everything about this. I love waking up and doing what I do and I\u2019m someone who likes to compete. Real hard worker and I love what I do. I feel like I don\u2019t really even work. I think I\u2019m still a kid at the ripe age of 22 just still out here playing football with my friends. I love it, I love working on it. I love dedicating my whole life around it . It\u2019s just something I\u2019ve always enjoyed and I\u2019m very, very coachable. I\u2019ve been one of those players that\u00a0coaches are always able to yell at forever for as long as I\u2019ve been able to live. So having\u00a0that I\u2019m not taking that yelling or coaching personally is something that I hold myself to and I love it. I just love everything about football and am very grateful.<\/p>\n
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