Inside The Lineman Lab: The training ground helping build Ohio State's future offensive line

BAD visited the Northeast Ohio hub where Buckeye O-line commits train.

Ohio State offensive line commit Maxwell Riley goes through a drill with trainer Dale Rodick at T3 Performance in Avon, Ohio. (Photo by Bill Landis)

AVON, Ohio — The lab looks like an airplane hangar. Tucked between a swath of still undeveloped land and the French Creek Family YMCA, a few 100 feet past the left field wall of ForeFront Field — the 5,000-seat home of the Lake Erie Crushers — and three miles south of the lake that lends its name to that independent baseball team, sits T3 Performance.

T3 itself is a lab of sorts. Founded by former Ohio State linebacker Mike D’Andrea in 2009 as a haven for athletes, young and old, to train and develop their craft, the sprawling facility features a full-length, blue turf field lined for soccer, an extensive free weight area, batting tunnels for baseball and softball players, and a sports rehabilitation clinic run through a partnership with University Hospitals.

I’m here to see the lab within the lab.

The work they do is vital to the future of Ohio State’s offensive line.