Capacity decrease, optimism increase?

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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🗓️ 29 July 2020

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State announced seating capacity plans for the football season yesterday. Who gets in? We shall see. Certainly not everyone. But how excited are we that plans continue to be made for the season ... mean they will play football? More excited now than before that announcement. Patrick Murphy is here to discuss that, when Ohio State's schedule could be released , what it might look like and then we finish with a defensive end deep dive. Spend 5ish with us this a.m., 'Nutters. What's next for the Buckeyes? Make sure you're in the loop -- take five seconds to sign up for our FREE Buckeyes newsletter now! Want the latest scoops and news on the Buckeyes? Try our 7-DAY FREE TRIAL AND BECOME A BUCKNUTS SUBSCRIBER! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, Good morning, Bucknunners. It is Wednesday, July 29th, 2020.
0:22.6	I am Dan Rubin.
0:23.7	This is the Bucknuts Morning Five and Change.
0:26.0	Once again, subbing in for Dave Biddle.
0:28.4	He is vacating somewhere.
0:30.6	We are thrilled to welcome in.
0:32.1	Patrick Murphy to the show, how's it going it's good. How you doing?
0:36.8	I'm doing well Pat we were doing a little pre-game here and I'm getting a little bit more
0:41.7	optimistic I actually think yesterday's announce and I'm getting a little bit more optimistic.
0:43.2	I actually think yesterday's announcement from Ohio State
0:46.0	about stadium capacity is a positive sign.
0:49.0	Please let the people know what was actually
0:51.2	a major announcement. The big news and what grabbed the
0:54.6	headlines was that Ohio State will have no more than than 20% capacity at the
1:00.2	horseshoe this fall. What that means really is that assuming they have
1:06.6	fans they're going to be very careful about the social distancing, they're going
1:10.9	to require masks, they're not going to allow tailgating there's not going to be the
1:14.6	the normal pre-game traditions and whatnot but we knew that anyway right unless
1:19.0	something miraculous happened between when this all started and the start of the season. It was going to be limited somehow.
1:26.7	Gene Smith has talked about that. They just weren't sure what the number was. Now what this also gave us was you know a number we can kind of work with so 20% of
1:37.9	the stadium is just under 21,000 fans which seems like nothing if you've been to a sold out game there, but at least
1:46.1	that's pointing towards the intention of not only playing football, but some people being able to watch it in person.
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