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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Northwestern fires Pat Fitzgerald as college leadership stumbles again

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Pat Fitzgerald was fired as the head coach of the Northwestern Wildcats on Monday, and though this is Buckeye Talk and a podcast about Ohio State, that kind of Big Ten news merits a discussion. And there are Ohio State lessons involved with this from how the Buckeyes handled Jim Tressel and Urban Meyer in the past. Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird discuss this mess from several angles: (0:30) Reaction to the Fitzgerald firing (10:05) How would Ohio State have handled this situation? (22:06) The constant balance around the power of a football coach (42:29) Where will the Northwestern football program go from here? (50:00) A final wrap from Doug, including Fitzgerald's statement Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:59.0

I talked completely.com.

1:00.0

This was not what we were planning to do.

1:02.0

Doug Lamarieson, Nathan Berry.

1:03.0

But we are going to talk about the firing of Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald.

1:06.0

This is not an Northwestern podcast.

1:08.0

So we will tie it into coaches who get too powerful.

1:12.0

Lessons learned perhaps by Ohio State in years past.

1:15.0

How Ohio State might have handled this.

1:17.0

And then, as you guys know, this is one of those things I always say.

1:21.0

Like, nobody cares where you went to school.

1:22.0

But in a situation like this, like, I went to Northwestern.

1:24.0

My daughter is a student at Northwestern.

1:26.0

And so, like, you know, I don't know what I wanted to think.

1:28.0

Like, you know, uh, Doug's taking it easy on a school.

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