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Ravi Bellamkonda, tOSU President

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Ohio State Reportedly Promoting Executive Vice President and Provost Ravi Bellamkonda to President

Ohio State is reportedly promoting executive vice president and provost Ravi Bellamkonda to replace Ted Carter as president.
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Ohio State Reportedly Promoting Executive Vice President and Provost Ravi Bellamkonda to President​

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Ohio State is promoting from within to replace Ted Carter.

Ohio State executive vice president and provost Ravi Bellamkonda will be the university’s new president, Sheridan Hendrix of The Columbus Dispatch reported Wednesday. His promotion will be formally announced by the Ohio State Board of Trustees during a public meeting at 9 a.m. Thursday.

Bellamkonda has been Ohio State’s executive vice president and provost, serving as the chief academic officer of the university, since January 2025. Bellamkonda previously served as the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Emory University.

Bellamkonda, who holds a Ph.D. from Brown University and also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at MIT, started his professional career as a professor at Case Western Reserve University and was later a professor and associate vice chair for research at Georgia Tech, a president of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the dean of engineering at Duke.

Bellamkonda’s promotion comes just three days after Carter resigned as Ohio State’s president. Carter, who had been Ohio State’s president since January 2024, resigned after the university learned that Carter had “an inappropriate relationship with someone seeking public resources to support her personal business.” According to multiple reports, the relationship in question was with Kristanhe Vlachos, the host of The Callout Podcast, who started an LLC in December that listed the offices of WOSU, a public broadcasting service owned by the university, as its headquarters.
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Arkansas Razorbacks

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Arkansas Razorbacks -... - Arkansas Razorbacks - SEC Country

SmoovP said:
Arkansas has a lot to offer, even though it's been 14-15 years since we were really relevant.

A proud tradition: 1 NC, 1 Runner-up, a handful of Final Fours. Eddie Sutton and Nolan Richardson both had a lot of success here.

A rabid fanbase.

Outstanding facilities in Bud Walton Arena - a 20,000 seat house.

Plenty of money and the willingness to spend it.

And a Top 5 ranked recruiting class coming next year.

Mike Anderson is a non-starter. The hand-check rule has killed the 40 Minutes of Hell style of play. He hasn't had a lot of success at Missouri and he wouldn't come anyhow.

Some names that are floating around:

Bill Self (I know, but it's a persistent name that comes up)
Tubby Smith
Tim Floyd
Billy Gillipsie
Buzz Peterson
Mike Anderson (see above)

I can't get excited about any of those names, but I'd take Tubby if that's all I had to choose from.
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Arkansas to honor Nolan Richardson with statue outside arena

Former Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson, who led the Razorbacks to the 1994 national title, will be immortalized with a statue outside Bud Walton Arena, the school said Wednesday.
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Arkansas to honor Nolan Richardson with statue outside arena​

Former Arkansas coach Nolan Richardson, who led the Razorbacks to the 1994 national title, will be immortalized with a statue outside Bud Walton Arena, the school said Wednesday.

Richardson was on the court at halftime of No. 20 Arkansas' 105-85 win over Texas in the team's regular-season home finale Wednesday night when athletic director Hunter Yurachek surprised him and told him the school had commissioned a statue to commemorate his achievements.

Per the school's announcement, work on the statue is set to begin soon.

"Coach Richardson's impact on the game of basketball and our state is immeasurable," Yurachek said in a statement. "He represented Arkansas with a toughness and intense work ethic that endeared him to our fans while changing the lives of numerous athletes, coaches and staff under his direction. His '40 minutes of Hell' changed college basketball and led to the 1994 national championship that changed Arkansas and our university forever. Coach Richardson will stand tall outside the arena for the rest of time."

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Richardson and Arkansas were not on good terms when they divorced in 2002. But the two sides have repaired the relationship over the years. The university renamed the floor at Bud Walton Arena "Nolan Richardson Court" in 2019. Richardson praised Calipari's hiring in 2024 after he left Kentucky, and he has been around the program since Calipari's arrival.
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tOSU Sports Information Director Will Pantages

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Ohio State Hires Will Pantages As Next Football Communications Director

Ohio State has hired Wake Forest's Will Pantages to replace Jerry Emig as the Buckeyes’ next football communications director.
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Ohio State Hires Will Pantages As Next Football Communications Director​

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Ohio State has found its next football communications director.

Following Jerry Emig’s retirement on Friday, Ohio State announced Monday that it has hired Wake Forest’s Will Pantages to oversee the Buckeyes’ football media and public relations efforts, along with their creative media and branding teams.

“It is a privilege to join The Ohio State University,” Pantages said in an OSU press release. “I’m excited to collaborate with an outstanding team to highlight all the accomplishments of our student-athletes and continue advancing one of the most respected brands in college athletics.”

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A native of Akron, Pantages played baseball for four years at Baldwin Wallace — the alma mater of Ohio State legend Jim Tressel — while earning a degree in communications and economics.

After graduating, Pantages joined SMU’s athletic communications office in 2013. He moved to the University of Florida the following year and became the football program’s primary day-to-day media contact in 2016. Pantages arrived at Wake Forest in 2019 and spent the past six years as the school’s associate athletic director for communications and content.

While in Winston-Salem, Pantages oversaw communications, creative services, fan experience and campus partnerships for all 18 of Wake Forest’s varsity sports. He also served as the primary contact for the Demon Deacons’ football team.

“We are excited to add Will to our Buckeye team,” said Chris Park, Ohio State’s executive associate athletic director for external affairs and chief communications officer. “He has tremendous passion, enthusiasm and vision for his work in the communications and creative space and his experience as a high-level thoughtful leader within college football will be valuable in this new role centered around our Ohio State Football program.”

Ohio State’s release also detailed a new athletic communications structure. Park will lead the department’s external communications strategy, marketing, brand engagement and media relations, while Gary Petit will oversee the communications unit and all non-football-related strategies.

Mike Basford, who assisted Emig with football media relations for the past nine years, will remain in his current role.
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