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Crain & Cone

Can Ohio State Buy a Championship? (Tim Brando)

Crain & Cone

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Sports

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Ohio State may be looking for a new offensive coordinator if Bill O'Brien leaves for Boston College; Dartmouth basketball players are ruled employees; and Tim Brando joins us to discuss the new alliance between the Big Ten and the SEC.   Ep.463   - - -    Today’s Sponsors:   ZBiotics - Get 15% off your order with promo code BOOSTER http://www.ZBiotics.com/Booster   Raycon - Use code "BOOSTER" at checkout for additional savings on your entire purchase! http://www.BuyRaycon.com/Booster   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Ohio State may be looking for a new offensive coordinator if Bill O'Brien leaves to take the head job at Boston College.

0:05.6

Dartmouth basketball players are ruled employees, and Tim Brando joined us to discuss the new partnership between the Big Ten and the SEC.

0:14.8

Check it out of more, the Cranin Company. Oh, everybody out there listening we We appreciate you guys. However you listen to us,

0:45.3

whether it's Apple Podcast, Spotify, make sure you leave us a five-star review and

0:49.6

share the show. Thank you. If Ohio State wins the national championship next year,

0:55.1

they won't be the only team to ever buy a championship. To be honest, they would

1:00.8

actually join a long list of teams that have paid for talent to step on campus.

1:05.6

Yes, it's believed the cost of their big-time transfer portal acquisitions like Will Howard,

1:10.2

Quenchon Judkins and Moore has been estimated to cost around 10 to 13 million bucks.

1:15.0

But even before NIL was made public, most of the top teams in college football paid for recruits under the table.

1:22.0

Now look, some people don't like to talk about it like it's

1:24.3

taboo or something and there are some programs that try to stay somewhat clean but if we are going to be

1:29.9

honest with ourselves we all know what was going on. Your team was doing it too.

1:35.0

Not only were recruits getting paid to attend the school, but the guys on the current roster

1:40.0

would get thrown some coin on a lot of teams. I mean, hell, my father, may he rest in peace, told me

1:45.1

stories all the time about finding envelopes in his locker after the games where he played

1:49.5

well at Auburn. I mean, the biggest change is the high value that guys are getting paid right now

1:54.6

I mean back in the day if a recruit got paid by multiple schools he could rack up a

1:59.2

pretty nice price tag and once he chose a school on signing day he would just keep all the money

2:04.4

because what are they gonna do tell on them I mean they were the ones that paid them

2:07.6

but we haven't seen guys going for a mill at this rate ever before and Ohio State isn't the only school doing it. But Ryan Day and the crew in Columbus, they've got to do something.

2:18.0

Because when you sign up to be the headman for the buck guys, you can't keep losing to Michigan regardless of what else you

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