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

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Even if some Buckeye fans don’t believe he accomplished much on the Committee, the rest of the Big 10 should be pleased with the financial side of the bowl season. With 3 teams in New Years 6 games, this season’s bowl payouts to the conference might set a record!
 
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Gene Smith sat on this CFP committee. Back in 2011 Gene chaired the NCAA Tournament committee and the top-seeded Buckeyes somehow landed in the Bracket of Death with North Carolina, Syracuse, Kentucky, West Virginia, Xavier and PAC-10 Champ Washington as the top seven seeds. March Madness seeing has not seen controversy like that this decade.

Maybe Gene should stay the hell away from these committees.
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https://www.elevenwarriors.com/ohio-state-football/2017/12/89018/travelers-and-thieves

As always, great article from Ramzy.
 
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brodybuck21 said:
FUCK dabo
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Said it before, I'll say it again: You can't spell EABOD without the letters D-A-B-O.

Gene has caught some flack over the years, some of it deserved, especially in the crisis management/PR department. But his measured response on escalating coaching salaries, the hiring of Holtmann, McGuff, Tom Ryan, etc ..., keeping 36 sports in the black while still throwing $40mm annually back to the University despite the debt load Andy Geiger saddled the department with, and throwing shade on any adult male that still goes by the childhood nickname Dabo all deserve praise.
 
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OhioState001 said:
How so?
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I seem to recall after everything went down with UL basketball, I read an article where the NCAA was asked for examples of programs that are clean and doing things right... across the board. The response was Thad and Gene / tOSU in general across the board.

I’m not sure what the issues people have with GS are, but the fact of the matter is that there is plenty of room at tOSU to run clean programs and be successful. That’s hardly the case in many places. Gene makes that happen through his management of people and resources. tOSU is a highly valuable brand and to that end, maximizing value while mitigating risk is a very difficult task. Just consider examples where risks were taken at the expense of programs... others as well as when it has happened within our own. The brand is just too valuable to make poor choices. Note that this is not to say that his job is risk elimination. That’s an easy job... risk mitigation and management while maximizing value is very difficult. He’s the CEO of all of that and the people he has working under him. From coaches to compliance, they are clearly working lock-step with him on that front.

That makes him front and center of the ‘Best ADs in the Biz’ team picture.
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
I seem to recall after everything went down with UL basketball, I read an article where the NCAA was asked for examples of programs that are clean and doing things right... across the board. The response was Thad and Gene / tOSU in general across the board.

I’m not sure what the issues people have with GS are, but the fact of the matter is that there is plenty of room at tOSU to run clean programs and be successful. That’s hardly the case in many places. Gene makes that happen through his management of people and resources. tOSU is a highly valuable brand and to that end, maximizing value while mitigating risk is a very difficult task. Just consider examples where risks were taken at the expense of programs... others as well as when it has happened within our own. The brand is just too valuable to make poor choices. Note that this is not to say that his job is risk elimination. That’s an easy job... risk mitigation and management while maximizing value is very difficult. He’s the CEO of all of that and the people he has working under him. From coaches to compliance, they are clearly working lock-step with him on that front.

That makes him front and center of the ‘Best ADs in the Biz’ team picture.
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When it comes to college athletics as a whole... who's got it better than us?? Literally nobody. And the head man deserves a lot of credit for that.
 
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OhioState001 said:
Big props to Gene Smith it seems that all the athletic programs are killing it!
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Gene has been great overall. No one is perfect. There was no easy/perfect way out of the Tressel situation early on, people were going to be mad/disappointed no matter action was taken. But given who he has hired, and the performance of the teams, on the balance I am grateful Gene is our AD.
 
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