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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Ep. 280: Most discouraging Big Ten team; Justin Fields’ upside; Gene Smith interview

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

This big Wednesday episode is like three Buckeye Talks in one. First, Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird do a round of rapid fire questions from text subscribers, including how far quarterback Justin Fields is from reaching his upside and which out-of-business chain restaurants they miss the most. Then Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith makes his first Buckeye Talk appearance for a half-hour interview, as he and Doug talk about the Buckeyes' involvement with the Black Lives Matter movement, whether Ohio State should have more black assistant coaches, what Smith's career as a black college football administrator has been like and how OSU athletes might continue to show some form of protest, including possibly kneeling for the National Anthem in the fall. Then, the podcast ends with three big, meaty questions from text subscribers, all related to the Big Ten chasing the Buckeyes: Which Big Ten fan base should be the most discouraged? Which Big Ten team will be the next to beat Ohio State? Which Big Ten team would you like to see jump up and become a College Football Playoff contender? There's a lot happening on a lot of different topics on our weekly flagship episode. We hope you enjoy it, and we appreciate you listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. 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, hey, where you been?

0:17.0

Buck I talk is about to begin.

0:21.0

Hey, hey, come on in.

0:28.0

Welcome back to the Big Wednesday Buckeyes Talk

0:32.0

from Cleveland.com, Doug Le Maurice, Nathan Baird, Stephen Means on

0:36.3

furlow this week. Thank you so much for joining us. Busy busy pod, two hours plus, you know how we do it, and this is what we're going to do this

0:44.6

Wednesday we are going to start off with rapid fire questions you guys like the

0:48.9

rapid fire we have eight or nine of those Nathan are going to buzz

0:51.4

through those from our loyal tech subscribers.

0:54.0

Then I have a half an hour interview that I did with Gene Smith,

0:58.0

the Ohio State Athletic Director,

1:00.0

and we told you on the Tuesday podcast,

1:02.0

how we're going to handle our discussions

1:04.2

around the Black Lives Matter issue and how that relates to Ohio State

1:07.2

football. That's what I talked about with Gene. That's a half an hour interview

1:11.1

that's going to be the second segment of this pod.

1:13.9

Half an hour, really good stuff, concrete stuff

1:17.4

about how Ohio State is handling this,

1:19.8

will handle it, what Gene Smith thinks

1:22.4

about where the Ohio State Athletic Department is, where

1:25.2

their athletes are, where their fans are.

1:28.2

Just a really interesting discussion with the guy who really matters in this situation because he happens to be one of the most powerful

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