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Ex-Buckeye Lisle ready to earn starting job at Duke

Last fall, Evan Lisle realized his college football dream wasn’t going to live up to expectations.

An Ohio native, Lisle naturally accepted Ohio State’s offer to play for the Buckeyes in 2012. A redshirt season followed by three seasons as a back up offensive lineman told Lisle it was time to head elsewhere.

“It was always my dream to go to Ohio State,” Lisle said. “I had a good experience there. It was time for a change and I think, looking back at it, you wish you’d have looked at a school like Duke. But it was my dream school.