DeanCast: DeanCast: Tim May from Columbus Dispatch talks about his impending retirement; Dwayne Haskins 1 and done; LB play; more…
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🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Today we have the return of the DeanCast.
DeanCast guest today is 34-year Buckeye football beat writer for the Columbus Dispatch Tim May.
On today’s show we talk:
** May talks about his impending retirement after 35 years of covering Ohio State football
** May looks back at the Urban Meyer/Zach Smith/Courtney Smith situation and if it is over
** May’s thoughts on the Buckeyes’ linebacker play this season
** May looks at how the rest of the season for the Buckeyes’ plays out
** May makes his predictions on who makes up the college football playoff final four
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Today I'm Your dreams were your ticket out. |
| 0:13.0 | Today on our podcast, we have none others |
| 0:17.0 | today in Tim May of the Columbus Dispatch |
| 0:20.0 | and if you haven't heard Buck Nutter, |
| 0:22.0 | it's the end of an era. |
| 0:25.0 | Tim May is in his 35th year, 35 years of covering a high estate football |
| 0:31.0 | and he's announced his retirement. |
| 0:33.7 | Basically at the end of this Ohio State football season, |
| 0:37.4 | he'll have his 35 years cover the Buckeyes in. |
| 0:40.4 | And we've got to start with that, Tim know Tim May the end of an era covering high |
| 0:46.6 | state football just tell our listeners a little bit about your decision and and and that type of thing. |
| 0:56.0 | I've turned 65. I will turn 65 on March the 23rd. |
| 1:00.0 | Shouldn't give out my birthday like that. I had planned to drop the mic and walk off |
| 1:06.3 | stage is not the right term bill, but I just I didn't I didn't plan at all for this to be |
| 1:16.2 | become an announcement of any sort. But along the way, our company, the company that owns our paper, Gate House, offered this what's known as a voluntary severance offer to employees who wanted to, in essence, call it a career career and let me just leave it with this it was |
| 1:36.4 | extremely lucrative for me to go ahead and sign up for it even though I'm going to keep covering |
| 1:43.6 | up covering a high state football you know with Bill Rabinowitz and I've been doing |
| 1:47.5 | it for like seven years now eight years now together but I'm going to keep |
| 1:51.9 | covering it through the end of the season. |
| 1:55.0 | But sometimes, as Godfather says, sometimes you get an offer that's too good to refuse. |
| 2:01.0 | And that's exactly why it got out but I was always planning for the day I |
| 2:08.7 | turned 65 the day I'm eligible for Medicare etc for it to be my last day as a at least as a full-time |
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