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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. Wayman Tisdale Jersey . -- Penn State tight end Mike Gesicki gets a quick pep talk from a teammate or two before every game.Be Mike, they say.Its taken him some time to figure out exactly what that meant, but hes on the right track. Gesickis found his way in Penn States emerging offense with 14 catches over the past three games and has become Trace McSorleys most reliable receiver.Hes a different Mike that the one who played the last two years. That one was enamored with thoughts of stardom and his overconfidence never let nerves seep in before games. That Mike led the team in drops and played less and less as the year wore on.I wanted people to know who I was, Gesicki said. I wanted to go out there and make big plays. I wanted to be the guy. When that kind of stuff didnt happen for me, I wasnt doing the things that I wanted to do, I just changed my whole mindset. I dont care if I walk down the street and nobody knows me. As long as Penn State wins, thats all I care about.With his fresh outlook, the 6-foot-6, 252-pound Gesicki appears primed to play a big role against No. 2 Ohio State (6-0, 3-0 Big Ten) at Beaver Stadium on Saturday.Wisconsin used tight end Troy Fumagalli to move the ball against the Buckeyes last week. Fumagalli caught 7 of 9 targets for 84 yards with three third-down conversions. Like Fumagalli whos also 6-foot-6, Gesicki creates mismatches against most players in coverage.He can go up and get the ball, Penn State linebacker Brandon Smith said. And when you cover a guy like that, youve got to respect his speed and try to get hands on him.Gesicki has learned to take advantage of them in coordinator Joe Moorheads offense. The former Fordham head coach always had big plans for Gesicki and hed developed tight ends in the past. Three of them combined for 203 catches for 2,025 yards and 16 touchdowns in Moorheads last four years at Fordham.With Gesicki running routes deep and across the field where hes done most of his damage, Penn States passing game has developed as McSorleys kept plays alive with his feet. McSorleys completed 17 passes of 25 or more yards and his willingness to throw deep has provided Gesicki with more running room after catches with safeties are backed up, Gesicki said.Its much different from the last two years when he struggled to pick up blocking assignments and dropped balls when they came his way. It was on the plane ride home from the teams bowl game that Gesicki mulled over his first two seasons -- humbling 11- and 13-catch campaigns.Eric Fierro, who coached Gesicki in football and basketball at New Jerseys Southern Regional High School, points to a YouTube video of basketball highlights where Gesicki is draining 3s, sawing through the paint for finishes, slamming home alley-oops and blocking opponents seemingly at will to illustrate how used to dominating he was.A lot came for Michael really quickly in a lot of sports in high school, Fierro told the AP. A lot of attention from a lot of colleges came really quickly and as you can imagine for a 15-year-old kid whose dream is coming to fruition right before him, he had some growing pains going through high school and going to Penn State.A standout in the weight room, Gesicki spent most of the latter months last season staying after practice to pop the tackling sled or catch extra passes. 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Berra made 42 saves and Kris Russell scored at 1:32 of overtime, lifting the Calgary Flames to a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday night. Renault technical director Bob Bell says people outside his team do not understand how rundown its Enstone factory had become under its previous owners.Renault bought the Lotus outfit over the winter, saving the team from going bust and taking on its significant debts. Its previous owners, Genii Capital, had only been interested in finding a buyer in 2015, meaning development for this year and investment in the factory and staff had all but ground to a halt.As a result, Renault has essentially run a year-old chassis this season with the aim of rebuilding the teams infrastructure behind the scenes. Bell, who came to the team from world champions Mercedes, says many observers have underestimated the scale of the task Renault took on.I dont think perhaps from the outside people realise how rundown the Enstone squad had become in the last couple of years, so theres a lot to do, he said. As well as the process of rebuilding the team of course we had to build a car for this year and start work on an even better one for next year, which wouldnt be terribly hard.Its been a challenge, it continues to be so, but theres a very strong spirit in Enstone as anybody who knows the place will testify to and were certainly up to the challenge.Renault scored a point in both Singapore and Malaysia and Bell said those results meant an awful lot to those invvolved in the project. Lionel Simmons Jersey. Ive won a lot of points in Formula One over the years and that point meant more to me than perhaps any other, he said. Its a great motivator and it really lifted team moral so actually it was quite an important achievement.Moving beyond that, Mr [Carlos] Ghosn [Renault CEO] is very clear in his objectives for the team. Hes not here to make up the numbers, hes here to see the team succeed. He also, of course, has been through this cycle before and he knows what it takes and how long it takes to achieve that and hes set us realistic objectives that are in line with that.Next year the obvious step forward for us is to move into the midfield and be competitive there. 2018 to be looking at podiums and so on, and then out beyond that, four, five years hence, looking at a proper championship-winning campaign. No rocket science in that.If you look at history, if you look at what it took when Red Bull bought Jaguar, when Renault previously bought Benetton or when Mercedes bought Brawn it took five years in each instance for them to win a championship. Thats the sort of timescale, the sort of road map weve set ourselves. I think its realistic and its in line with corporate expectation. ' ' '