Why Gene Smith is leaving Ohio State football with one final gift on his way to retirement

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🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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As Gene Smith enters his final days as Ohio State's athletic director, Stephen Means and Nathan Baird decided to sit down with him for an hour-long conversation. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, the two recap the enlightening conversation. They cover everything from Smith's background, his decisions as athletic director and how he's setting up OSU's athletic department for the future. Plus a look at how Smith views Ryan Day's first five years as the Buckeyes' head coach and why they went 'all-in' on the 2024 season. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey. Hey, hey, hey, where you been?
0:17.0	Buck I talk is about to begin.
0:21.0	Hey, hey, come on in.
0:25.0	Welcome, in. Welcome back to Bruckai Talk, I'm'm Stephen Means and that's Nathan Baird.
0:35.0	And Thursday afternoon, we sat down with outgoing Ohio State Athletic Director Jean Smith for about an hour, Nathan and I did,
0:42.0	and it was pretty
0:43.1	enlightening to be honest with you I think we kind of covered a little bit of
0:46.3	everything we covered the coming being from Cleveland angle we talked about
0:49.7	some of the decisions he's made over the past 19 years as Ohio State Athletic Director.
0:54.2	We talked about some decisions he made in the present that are impacting the Ohio State
0:59.9	2024 team and beyond and everything under the sun. I thought it was a really
1:03.6	enlightening conversation for about an hour there sitting with Gene Smith. So
1:06.8	thank you to Gene Smith for choosing to do that with us. Some new stuff did come
1:11.2	out of it though. So this is kind of breaking.
1:13.0	Like you're this is first to told to Cleveland.com some things happening Nathan for
1:18.2	one with the Woody Hayes Athletic Facility but let's start there and I guess there's some plans going forward that are going to be in place in
1:26.0	2024 plus there's some plans for things going forward for how they're going to handle
1:30.0	some of the athletic facilities.
1:31.6	Yeah, so there's been a long-term plan with the Woody.
1:35.0	We've known for a long time that there was going to be a complete replacement or expansion.
1:42.0	They're kind of landlocked there. They don't have a lot of space to really expand,
1:46.4	so not 100% sure how that's going to work. That's going to be under Ross Bjork's leadership moving forward.
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