Ep. 292: Will President Trump's intervention lead to fall football for Ohio State and the rest of the Big Ten?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 2 September 2020

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

A lot of ground to cover on this week's big Wednesday edition of Buckeye Talk. We covered everything from the use of anonymous sources to Justin Fields-Georgia transfer speculation to heartbreaking sports moments from our past to which fast food fry Ohio State football would be. We tried to push the nonsense towards the end but this was one of the most fun episodes we have recorded in a while after weeks of Big Ten process and non-developments. However, Nathan Baird, Stephen Means and Doug Lesmerises opened the show by discussing a major development. President Donald Trump spoke with Big Ten Commissioner Kevin Warren about "immediately starting" football. That sparked a day of reports, some of which suggested the Big Ten could play as early as Oct. 10, others disputing the league had any traction towards restarting before late fall. The cleveland.com OSU beat discussed how much the Trump-Joe Biden dynamic brings a new political angle to the situation, and whether Tuesday's call could potentially push Big Ten presidents and chancellors who had previously voted to cancel to reverse their decisions. That's a heavy topic, but overall this was a less serious episode that still talked a lot of football. If anything we hope it gave you a new perspective on how and why we report and write on some of the developments the way we do. As always, 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.
0:28.0	Welcome to Buckeye Talk, boy, just when he thought the Big Ten football
0:35.1	madness couldn't get any madness sir, any crazier. Here we are on Tuesday
0:41.3	recording for our Big Wednesday podcast. I'm Nathan Baird from
0:44.1	Cleveland.com he's Stephen Means and he's Doug Leaveris swooping back in from
0:49.9	vacation to talk about well you know it the biggest thing to happen today or the
0:55.8	biggest thing that happened in a few days and it just seems like every day
0:58.6	trumps itself oh no pun intended in terms of in terms of the weirdness that's going on out there.
1:06.4	Doug were you were you enjoying a vacation slumber
1:10.7	when president Trump tweeted today about his conversation with Kevin Warren?
1:15.0	No, I'm not slumbering. I'm getting I'm trying to get some other work done and just clear my
1:19.1	head a little bit for the season but yeah I mean the Trump brought me back
1:21.7	that's I mean what you know that's why I'm here
1:24.6	So yeah, I mean it's fascinating right? It's it's it's it's fascinating I'm just I'm very curious how we'll all look back on this someday because it's, it's hard to get your head around, your arms around it as it's happening because you don't know where it's going to go but once we're at the
1:43.3	final part where the seasons played and everything and then when we look
1:47.5	back I think we're really going to say oh my gosh I can't believe that happened.
1:51.3	Just in case anybody it doesn't know what we're talking about.
1:55.0	Tuesday morning, President Trump tweets that he had a conversation with Big Ten Commissioner
2:01.0	Kevin Warren about the immediate start of the season or immediately returning to playing football
2:06.3	Said that it was a very positive conversation and ended his tweet saying that they were on the one yard line
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