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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

What Ohio State’s new basketball coaching hire could tell us about the future of the football program

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Jake Diebler was hired as the Ohio State basketball team’s head coach after closing out the season in an interim role On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means and Nathan Baird discuss incoming athletic director Ross Bjork’s decision to hire Diebeler and how it impacts the program’s future. They also discuss whether Bjork’s decision was the best possible choice and if the way he came to this decision tells us anything about how he would handle having to one day hire a new football coach. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to buck I talk I'm Nathan Baird from Cleveland.com along with Stephen Means and we just got back from Value City Arena, the Schottenstein Center,

1:10.3

where we were at the press conference for new Ohio State men's basketball coach Jake Deibler and obviously it's been a

1:16.8

Process to get to this point Chris Holman being fired. What was it about six weeks ago and you know midway through the Big Ten season and Ohio State

1:25.9

then instituted a search and it led them to a guy who has been in the building the whole

1:31.0

time and the guy who led the team to a six and one record before then a loss in the big ten tournament so six and two and

1:38.6

did seem to light a spark under this team and today at the arena there was sort of a what they tried I guess to make sort of a

1:47.1

pep rally feel in some ways I walked in and there were cheerleaders there giving away posters of Jake Deebler and obviously a moment where they're trying to

1:57.8

you know get some energy going and and Deebler did that obviously and the team did that on its own the way that it finished the season but Stephen we talked to

2:06.8

Jake Depler at length we talked to Ross biorke the new athletic director at length

2:11.3

Gene Smith also chimed in he was there more today as sort of an

2:14.0

MC but what was the thing that maybe you wanted to know the most or have

2:20.3

confirmed or or however you want to say it as to why Ohio State moved forward with this promotion

2:27.6

rather than what we speculated at the time would be a national search where you could sort of name your price a little bit and go out and try to land a experienced well-known big fish.

2:41.0

I think the big question when you do something like this because this is not the first time a coach has been

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