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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Daily Pod: How much will player endorsements help Ohio State in recruiting?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The NCAA is moving forward with a proposal to allow athletes to make money as endorsers while in college, and on this Buckeye Talk episode from cleveland.com, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means talk all about what that might mean for Ohio State football. How will the Buckeyes sell that idea in recruiting? How will the money coming in to players be tracked and monitored? How might some schools abuse the idea, which is something that some around the game are worried about? They answered a lot of questions on the idea, moving past the corporate speak to the actual effects of what the NCAA announced on Wednesday. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, hey, where you been?

0:17.0

Buck I talk is about to begin.

0:21.0

Hey, hey, come on in.

0:27.0

Welcome back to Buckeye Talk, where we are wondering which Ohio State player we will

0:31.1

hire first to do our Buckeye Talk commercial.

0:33.8

We already have a question about that from our loyal Buckeye Talk listeners.

0:36.8

Doug Le Maurice, Nathan Baird, Stephen Means, this is our name, image, and likeness podcast.

0:42.1

We're going to make it interesting. I think there is a variety

0:44.9

of opinions out there about how much you guys care about this stuff. But big news came down

0:49.2

Wednesday. The NCAA will propose that a working group will propose that

0:55.0

players can make money off name,

0:56.8

Abig and likeness.

0:57.6

They'll vote on it in January.

0:59.0

If it's passed, it'll go into effect

1:00.9

for the 2021-22 season.

1:04.1

Nathan, you were on the conference call

1:07.2

with Jean Smith and Michael Drake

1:09.0

and the president of the NCAA Ohio State

1:11.2

sort of at the forefront of this stuff, that aspect of it so that people

1:15.4

understand this, that Gene Smith and Michael Drake were kind of the spokespeople on behalf of all the NCAA schools out there.

1:26.1

What about that aspect of it?

1:27.6

What did you do find that interesting

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