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How to view allegations of cheating in other major college football programs

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

On this Buckeye Talk episode from cleveland.com, Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird discuss how to view allegations of cheating made by a high school coach in Georgia this week. A recording of the coach saying that Georgia and Alabama have plans for paying players was made public and spurred this discussion. It's hard to discuss the facts, because nothing is close to proven. So the idea was to ask Ohio State fans how the underlying rumors of cheating in college sports affects how they view the sport and their favorite team. There aren't hard facts in this one, but there are lots of opinions from Doug, Nathan and the texters about a subject that isn't usually discussed on Buckeye Talk. Thanks for listening. 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, where you been, but got talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.

0:27.2

Welcome back to the Thursday book I talk from clune.com, Doug Lamarice, Nathan Baird. Stephen

0:32.8

means not here. He's getting ready for the basketball box guys in the big 10 tournament.

0:36.3

So Nathan and I are going to have a journalism panel discussion. We hope you think that's

0:42.2

interesting. Listen, this is, we wanted to talk about this. We had our tech subscribers,

0:47.6

Nathan who were sort of a couple of them were saying, hey, what are you thinking this? What

0:50.6

do you hear about it? There's this high school coach in Georgia who used to coach in Alabama,

0:55.2

who was recorded by someone who was having a conversation with him. It's not clear. I don't

1:00.3

think the coach knew he was being recorded. And in this conversation, he is saying how Alabama

1:06.8

and Georgia, Nick Saban at Alabama and Kirby smart at Georgia, go about paying recruits.

1:15.4

There's no verification. There's no corroboration. It's out there. It is out there in the aggregate

1:20.9

or world. I still don't have a firm grasp of exactly how it got out that I think he was

1:27.4

he was having this conversation with somebody like, there wasn't a journalist. It was like

1:31.2

somebody I think that in the football world, kind of the he knew and it got recorded and

1:36.3

it got posted. And I know the big lead did a thing about it, just sort of saying, hey,

1:42.0

here's what's on the recording. Couple other sites. I have not seen like a like a big like

1:49.7

media outlet that like does reporting do anything with this yet. So I think that's interesting,

1:55.8

but we have we and so we use this sort of a year suggestion, Nathan, to ask our tech subscribers

2:01.5

kind of like their thoughts on recruiting and cheating and college football. And we're not

2:06.2

going to get into specifics of who doesn't, who doesn't. And we're actually not going to get

2:09.7

into facts because I'm not going to pretend I have a lot of facts on this. But I'm interested in

2:14.4

the perception of the average college fan, the average Ohio State fan, what's like in the back

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