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

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y0yoyoin;2090823; said:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/pages/video.html

click on the Meyer Introduces Staff video link and check out the first 10 seconds

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We're fucked! :)

"I am disappointed that negative references have been made about our football coaches, and particularly head coach Urban Meyer regarding recruiting," Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said in a statement Friday. "In our league appropriate protocol, if you have concerns, is to share those concerns with your Athletic Director (AD). Then your AD will make the determination on the appropriate communication from that point forward. The ADs in our league are professionals and communicate with each other extremely well. "Urban Meyer and his staff have had a compliance conscience since they have arrived."
http://espn.go.com/college-football...alvarez-says-there-no-big-ten-recruiting-pact
 
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heisman;2103184; said:
We're [censored]ed! :)

"In our league appropriate protocol, if you have concerns, is to share those concerns with your Athletic Director (AD). Then your AD will make the determination on the appropriate communication from that point forward. The ADs in our league are professionals and communicate with each other extremely well.
http://espn.go.com/college-football...alvarez-says-there-no-big-ten-recruiting-pact
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Well, as long as our OSU AD communicates with other ADs as well as he communicated with the NCAA investigators...oh, yeah, you're right...we're [censored]ed. :(
 
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The Loren Wade mess that existed when he left Arizona State is mentioned again, since Lisa Love (the AD that replaced Smith in Tempe) was just let go.

CFN.Zemek

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The person who preceded Love as ASU's athletic director knew that football player Loren Wade had verbally threatened a female athlete on November 24, 2004, according to reporting by Jeff Metcalfe and Dan Bickley of The Arizona Republic. The player Wade threatened, ASU gymnast Trisha Dixon, told The Republic that Wade "pretty much threatened my life." The Republic also reported that on March 6, ASU women's soccer coach Ray Leone informed then-football coach Dirk Koetter that Wade had threatened ASU soccer player Haley van Blommestein, possibly with a gun. Nearly three weeks later on March 26, Wade ? when picking up van Blommestein at a suburban Phoenix nightclub ? shot and killed fellow football player Brandon Falkner.

Now, just who was this athletic director who stopped short of kicking Wade out of the ASU program entirely, thereby enabling him to be reinstated by Koetter for spring football practice on March 21, 2005, five days before the shooting? Why, that would be none other than Gene Smith, the same man who has so fully trampled over a million different ethical guidelines as the athletic director at Ohio State University. Smith accepted the Ohio State AD job on March 5 of 2005, one day before Wade's threats against van Blommestein were relayed to Koetter.

Smith did not directly oversee the handling of the van Blommestein incident or the clearing of Wade for spring practice on March 21, but he was definitely around in November of 2004. He knew the severity of Wade's threat against Trisha Dixon. He did nothing.

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Gene Smith opens up about tattoo scandal in 10TV interview
By Andy Evans
[email protected]
Published: Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said in an interview on WBNS 10TV Monday that he had no knowledge of any improprieties that occurred during the tattoo-for-memorabilia scandal that rocked the football team in December 2010.

“I’ve always been honest, I’ve always been forthright,” said Smith during the interview. “When I’ve made mistakes, I’ve shared that I made a mistake to my supervisor.”

The one-on-one interview was his first since the OSU football team incurred NCAA sanctions after six players were caught selling their memorabilia for tattoos. Many OSU faithful felt that the athletic director knew more than he led on. Some even felt he threw former head coach Jim Tressel “under the bus.”

“It’s hard, it’s difficult,” Smith responded, “particularly for my family, for my kids who live around this country and had to listen to different things, had to read certain things.”

Smith said he stays true to remaining accountable for his actions and he stays focused on doing the right thing.

“I think you get rewarded for accountability, I accept accountability, I think it’s important in life to do that,” he said. “I think you get respected because you man up, so to speak. And I do that constantly.”

Smith was also asked how he felt about being booed while introducing Urban Meyer as the new head football coach during halftime of the OSU-Duke basketball game on Nov. 29.

“It was painful,” he said, “to be booed by the people that you serve every day.”

And what does he have to say to all those “boo-birds” who might doubt his sincerity?

“I’d say 'Call me, let's chat,'” Smith quipped. “You can share your point of view and I’ll share mine, and we may come in the same spot. And if we don’t, let's respect one another and move on.”
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http://www.thelantern.com/sports/ge...ndal-in-10tv-interview-1.2871838#.T7LXGMU8WAg

Video: Ohio State AD Gene Smith- ESPN
 
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Buckskin86;2155290; said:
http://www.thelantern.com/sports/ge...ndal-in-10tv-interview-1.2871838#.T7LXGMU8WAg

Video: Ohio State AD Gene Smith- ESPN
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I don't really doubt his sincerity. Just as our Athletics Dept leader, his vision and leadership, were awful when it came to the bowl ban. You absolutely self-impose a 1 year bowl ban coming off a 6-6 season in which many players have come out publically said they wished the season was "just over" after the Michigan game.

That and everything I've heard about his wifes cushy several hundred thousand dollar job irk me...a lot.
 
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