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Gene Smith (AD The Ohio State, '10 AD of the Year, '13 NAAC Organizational Leadership Award)

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Fungo Squiggly said:
There are plenty of reasons to hate on Gene Smith. Just nothing particularly recent. In my IMO.
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He screwed up the handling of the tat gate scandal about as badly as one could possibly imagine, he had nothing to do with hiring Meyer, and he hasn't done anything positive or negative since as far as I know.

Edit: Actually, didn't he more recently (supposedly) renege on promises he made to the hockey program and fire the coach when confronted about it? Or am I mistaken?
 
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buckeyebri said:
New contract through 2020.....
http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/con.../new-deal-for-smith-emphasizes-academics.html
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Re: Smith will receive a base salary of $959,263 a year under the new contract
http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/con.../new-deal-for-smith-emphasizes-academics.html

Crap, "through 2020" there no way he'll retire before 2020 now and no way another school would "lure him away" with more money (like there is another school that would actually want him :shake:).
 
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http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post...s-gene-smith-has-smart-graduate-transfer-idea

Ohio State AD Gene Smith has smart graduate transfer idea
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Brian Bennett, College Football

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To be sure, the spirit of the original waiver process -- that a player would transfer to another school because it had a graduate program that his current school didn't offer -- has all but evaporated. Most graduate transfers only have one year of eligibility left and have little to no intention of completing a two-year postgraduate degree.

So the rule could use tweaking. Luckily, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith offered the most sensible plan for saving and fixing it at the Big Ten spring meetings. Let him explain:

"If I'm a dean of a graduate school, I'm concerned about my graduation rates," Smith said. "And if I'm taking people who aren't going to finish and you know they're not going to finish, that's a challenge.

"I think we need to talk about it. We need to be fair to the kids, but at same time we need to look at it differently. Because it's not an academic issue. They got their undergraduate degree, so let's quit the facade. How do we facilitate that and not damage a graduate program?

"Why not just take graduate courses? Why say they have to progress forward? Why do they have to be in a graduate program at all? Why couldn't they just take some courses that would be beneficial to their education? It might be real estate, it might be public speaking. I don't care.

"At the end of the day, they've got one more year of athletic eligibility. Let them go expire that. But don't put it on the back of academics, because it's not."

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LordJeffBuck said:

Okay, I'm back on the "fire Gene Smith" bandwagon....
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Yup.
 
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