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Jamie Foxx mentored the finalists this week on songs from the cinema. Lynche selected the late Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cWill You Be There\u201d from the movie \u201cFree Willy\u201d and turned in a soulful gospel-inspired rendition. Alas, however, he did not survive the voting process and was eliminated from the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that I was consistent every week and always gave my heart when I sang,\u201d he said of Tuesday\u2019s performance and his time on the show as a whole. \u201cThe only thing with giving your heart is it can get broken. But, if it gets received well, it can be something really magical and special and it was that a couple of weeks. I think that the way the wind blows the votes, you just never know. It\u2019s really up in the air and you never know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lynche played defensive tackle for the Knights from 2001-02. He made an immediate impact as a freshman out of St. Petersburg’s Gibbs High School which also served as UCF’s practice site for the 2009 St. Petersburg Bowl. Lynche had 24 tackles in 2001, 17 of them solos, with eight tackles for loss and a sack. As a sophomore in 2002, Lynche played in all 12 games and started each of the last three. He had at least one tackle in 11 of those contests and finished the year with 46 tackles in all, including a pair of sacks and six TFLs. He left the team just before the start of the 2003 season, returned to his native St. Petersburg and helped care for his ailing mother, Michele.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the way that I mentally prepare,\u201d he said today. \u201cIt\u2019s really my only experience with game planning or making a plan and being goal-oriented. Also, I wanted to have a warrior\u2019s mentality while I was in the competition. I took the approach of having a game plan, sticking to that game plan not matter how the wind blows you, and also being able to adapt to change the game plan as the game goes on. That was my approach. It was the approach that I took. It served me well up until this point. Top four is not a bad place to be. I feel good about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along that line, earlier in the call he mentioned that the weight of the show\u2019s ramifications on his future playing out before a live audience of 20 million Americans a week didn\u2019t really faze him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI live for pressure,\u201d he said. \u201cI think if you\u2019re going to be something great, you have to be able to deal with a pressure situation.  On Tuesday night I sang well, performed well and felt good about what I did. It just so happened that it didn\u2019t happen for me to be in the top three. But, I\u2019m where I\u2019m supposed to be and God definitely has a plan on my life and on all of our lives. I really feel that I\u2019m where I\u2019m supposed to be, regardless of what that is. I don\u2019t feel like I let anyone down. I came out and did what I do. The people just didn\u2019t vote that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lynche shared some recollections of his time at UCF<\/a> as well for the national media outlets on the call.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy memory of UCF is all of the construction \u2013 it always looks different every time you get there,\u201d said Lynche, a notion that still holds true today on the burgeoning campus. \u201cMy wife and I moved away to college four days after we graduated high school. We moved into Lake Claire Apartments. That\u2019s a memory I always feel, how that dorm room looked when I first walked in never having lived on my own. Now here I am and I had nothing to really decorate my room with. I got as many posters from the football office as I could and I wall papered my wall with football posters. That\u2019s kind of a memory and a vision that I see when I think of UCF.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody should go to college. It\u2019s the best time to get out and start living on your own and finding out who you are outside of your family in this world. It really matured me in that time from being in high school and focused me more. I was very focused in college. I was never really into partying and I had my wife there. We were really homebodies. It did make me realize how much I missed home and my family. I didn\u2019t realize how much I would miss them until I was away.\u201d<\/p>\n

He had a particularly good reason to miss his family as well. Lynche\u2019s mother, Michele, was suffering from cancer, a disease which would claim her life in 2004, and the thought of being away for her was too much for the rising junior to bear.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom had failing health for a long time,\u201d Lynche recalled on Thursday. \u201cShe was diagnosed with cancer and my heart was really missing home and missing my mom and being with her. My plan at that time was to transfer to the University of South Florida because that was much closer, it was just the next town over, and then my mom ended up passing away. It threw me for a loop for a bit. I lost my way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI started working with special ed kids at a middle school. It was the best thing for my heart at the time and was the best work I\u2019ve ever done in my life. At that same time I bought a guitar again \u2013 I hadn\u2019t had a guitar in a while because my plan was to play professional football. I bought a guitar again and started writing music. That side of me started growing again. It had been there all along, I just hadn\u2019t explored it because I was focused on athletics. When I left UCF it was just a really confusing time in a young guy\u2019s life. I was really trying to find my way. I got to spend some great last time with my mom which was super important. We\u2019d sit up late night and watch infomercials. She loved to stay up all night long. That was really a highlight of my life in general at that point. I got to stay at home with her for the last little bit of time that she had left on the Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the summer of 2002, while Lynche was preparing for what would be his final season at UCF, American Idol had its debut season on FOX with Kelly Clarkson walking away with the top prize, launching what has been a highly successful music career for her. Lynche didn\u2019t win it all but he was able to advance as far as he did because the judges used their \u201csave\u201d on Lynche after he was voted off a month ago after performing \u201cEleanor Rigby\u201d by The Beatles. Not fazed by the pressure of the moment, Lynche reached back and belted out another powerful version of Maxwell\u2019s \u201cThis Woman\u2019s Work\u201d to retain his spot on the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t terrified,\u201d Lynche said recalling that moment live on stage. \u201cI felt like going into the season that I liked that concept of \u2018sing for your life.\u2019 Every week to me was \u2018sing for your life\u2019 because nothing is guaranteed for you on the show. I never wanted to take anything for granted. When I got to that point it was literally \u2018sing for your life\u2019 \u2013 the life of your family and your future. Here\u2019s your one chance. I thought going in that I could stand tall in that moment. When it got down to Andrew and I, I wanted it to be me in that moment because I didn\u2019t want him to have to go through that. He\u2019s a buddy of mine and I felt strong enough and prepared enough to take that moment on. It worked out. I wasn\u2019t surprised that they saved me. I was just extremely grateful to still be around.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Lynche\u2019s family was indeed a big part of his American Idol storyline. The show\u2019s \u201cHollywood Week\u201d from which the Top 24 finalists are dramatically culled overlapped with the final days of his wife\u2019s pregnancy. Lynche kept them as close as he could during the contest and his infant daughter could be heard on occasion in the background of his teleconference on Thursday. The Lynche family was all together on stage at the end of Wednesday night\u2019s show as Lynche said his farewells to American Idol.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt meant a lot because it started out with them,\u201d he said. \u201cHollywood Week was when this whole experience got real. It wasn\u2019t about hoping that you do well any more \u2013 I HAD to do well. Because of the sacrifices I was making at that time, it was very important for me to do well. To have them there (was great). They would have been there for me if I was working at Home Depot or Domino\u2019s Pizza. My wife always supports me no matter what. It\u2019s nice that I get to be the family man. I\u2019m not anybody else but that. That\u2019s what I am first. It was nice that that was my story and people really saw that. Having my wife there really helped my heart out in a tough moment\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think you can ever say anything is worth missing the birth of your child and only time will let those wounds heal. I think it\u2019s definitely giving my family a good chance in the future and it gives my daughter a better chance that I did it and took that sacrifice. Me personally, of course I didn\u2019t want to miss it but it wasn\u2019t a choice. It was what I needed to do for the family at this time. I am definitely looking forward to spending more time with them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next up for \u201cBig Mike\u201d is a quick trip to New York City and then rehearsals starting on Tuesday back in Hollywood for this summer\u2019s American Idol Concert Tour. The show unfortunately is not coming to Orlando but does make a stop on August 4 at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa. After that it is time to record an album and finally a chance to get back to Florida.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t wait to get back home and heal a bit and feel the love down there and spread a little love in St. Pete,\u201d he said. \u201cI love my town. As soon as my schedule permits I\u2019ll be back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Foxx mentored the finalists this week on songs from the cinema. Lynche selected the late Michael Jackson\u2019s \u201cWill You Be There\u201d from the movie \u201cFree Willy\u201d and turned in a soulful gospel-inspired rendition. 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