Mark Titus

Mark Titus ( born June 25, 1987 in Brownsburg, Indiana) is an American professional basketball player for the Ohio State University.

Although he is a so-called walk- on who received a scholarship and only one to two minutes per game is on the field, he is very well known and popular because of his blog " Club Trillion ".

Career

Titus began to study at the Ohio State University in the fall of 2006. He also took the same time the position of team manager of the basketball team. Since Greg Oden was sidelined due to surgery on the right wrist, and the Buckeyes had only nine fit players in the squad, Titus was appointed to the squad at the beginning of the season 2006/ 07 to ensure a regular training schedule for the team.

He is almost always used when the game is already decided long ago and played in his four years on the team averaging 1.4 minutes per game in 32 games.

Titus has become in spite of its low operating time to an audience favorite and is even hailed by opposing fans and opponents.

Club trillion

However, his notoriety gained Titus off the basketball court, through his blog " Club Trillion ", which has passed the milestone of 2 million visitors in January 2010. The name has a "specialty" Titus ' back; a " trillion " are achieved by playing a minute in the game and otherwise reported no statistics because so on the scoreboard, a 1 followed by 21 zeros is. In his blog he presents background stories about his life as a basketball player. And describes his daily life as a seldom inserted bench player of his team.

He also used the blog to officially register for the NBA Draft, but was - as the first player ever - asked to withdraw his application. He and his blog already appeared several times on the sports channel ESPN, even the renowned NY Times devoted an article to him.

After studying Titus published the book " Do not Put Me In, Coach: My Incredible NCAA Journey from the End of the Bench to the End of the Bench " The work contains anecdotes that he has so far not divulge due to the strict rules and regulations of the NCAA allowed.