Was building Ohio Stadium the most important act in Ohio State football history?

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🗓️ 10 February 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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On this Thursday episode of Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises is joined by author John Baskin, who wrote "Lords of Smashmouth: The Unlikely Rise of an American Phenomenon." The book covers the history of Ohio State football from its inception to the current day, from John Wilce and Francis Schmidt, to Paul Brown and Woody Hayes, to Jim Tressel, Urban Meyer and Ryan Day. The book zeroes in on all the most important moments and people in the history of the Buckeyes, and not just that they were important, but how and why they came to their place in OSU history. Doug and John focus in particular in this conversation on Ohio Stadium, Paul Brown, Woody Hayes, and the history unfolding right now in the Day era. This episode is a great look at John's book and interesting nuggets from OSU history. Thanks for 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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1:21.4	Welcome back to Buck, I talk special one today, joined by John Vaskin, who wrote a
1:31.2	great book and I think a book about Ohio State football that fills a very
1:38.1	interesting need because it is comprehensive and it takes you through the
1:45.1	entire history of Ohio State football, John. But it does so on the thing that I
1:49.0	like about it most is it does it with, it's not just straightforward, it does it
1:54.0	with insight and some opinion in there and it doesn't just tell you what
1:58.4	happened but it tells you what it meant and why this was important. It's not
2:02.8	just a recitation of dates and people and there's a lot of synthesis in a book
2:07.8	like this where listen, people know Woody Hayes and people know the snowball and
2:14.5	people know John, but when you synthesize it, when you put the information
2:19.9	together, John, in the right way, you take things that people thought they knew
2:24.2	and you tell them things that they actually don't know and that's what I
2:27.0	really love about this. The Lords of Smashmouth, the unlikely rise in an
2:31.6	American phenomenon by John Vaskin, John. Thanks so much for joining me here on
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