Gene Smith (Former AD, ‘10 AD of the Year, '13 NAAC Organizational Leadership Award)

[VBSJ]

Just to verify, if anyone knows, is it one more year or two more years left on Gene Smith's contract? His contract extension terms were very vague, including the money and length.

I'm assuming he doesn't have enough "skeletons" to garner another extension (hoping).

 

[Bucknut24]

Dave Biddle ‏@davebiddle
Gee says "the NCAA was going to impose their ban" no matter what. "Even if we self-imposed a 5-year ban, they would have added to it."

Dave Biddle ‏@davebiddle
Gordon Gee calls it a "myth" that if OSU's self-imposed a postseason ban last year that the Buckeyes would be playing this year.

Not saying he's right, but it's still interesting comments..I'm putting it in Gene's thread since everyone blames him for this season

 

[dav713]

Dave Biddle ‏@davebiddle
Gee says "the NCAA was going to impose their ban" no matter what. "Even if we self-imposed a 5-year ban, they would have added to it."

Dave Biddle ‏@davebiddle
Gordon Gee calls it a "myth" that if OSU's self-imposed a postseason ban last year that the Buckeyes would be playing this year.

Not saying he's right, but it's still interesting comments..I'm putting it in Gene's thread since everyone blames him for this season

B. Fucking. S. Gene's comments are a lousy attempt at self-preservation

 

[Zurp]

I believe that the NCAA was going to take 2012 from Ohio State. Self-imposing a ban in 2011 would not have given Ohio State 2012.

The 5-year bowl ban comment is a bit of an exaggeration, but I believe Gee in that the NCAA was going to get their punishment in regardless of what Ohio State self-imposed.

 

[Bleed S & G]

B. [censored]ing. S. Gene's comments are a lousy attempt at self-preservation

That was Gee, not Gene.....

 

[billmac91]

I believe that the NCAA was going to take 2012 from Ohio State. Self-imposing a ban in 2011 would not have given Ohio State 2012.

The 5-year bowl ban comment is a bit of an exaggeration, but I believe Gee in that the NCAA was going to get their punishment in regardless of what Ohio State self-imposed.

It's impossible to say, but that is why you self impose last year. They needed to force the NCAA to pull the trigger. If they impose a 2 year bowl ban, we still didn't lose anything since last years season was a train wreck.

They can spin it however they want, the decision they made last year from a business perspective was embarrassing and amateur.

 

[dav713]

That was Gee, not Gene.....

Wow, reading comprehension fail on my part.

It's impossible to say, but that is why you self impose last year. They needed to force the NCAA to pull the trigger. If they impose a 2 year bowl ban, we still didn't lose anything since last years season was a train wreck.

They can spin it however they want, the decision they made last year from a business perspective was embarrassing and amateur.

I have to mostly agree with Bill. Gee's comment that they would have added an extra year is speculative. IIRC, tOSU hired an independent firm to help their decision process who suggested a self-imposed bowl ban. This suggestion came back before the Purdue game last year when tOSU was very much in contention to make the conference championship game. Ohio State would not have been pulling a Miami and enacting a bowl ban once a tier-1 bowl was out of the question. This would have been seen as a meaningful self imposed penalty. I do not think it is a given that the NCAA would have imposed a 2nd year of a bowl ban. And I absolutely do not believe that tOSU's plan was "Hey they're going to add an extra year to whatever we impose, so let's just say 0 years!!!!" as is somewhat implied.

 

[BuckBackHome]

Sports Illustrated's Andy Staples predictions for 2012.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...redictions/index.html?sct=hp_t11_a5&eref=sihp

Prescient

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

I'm still shocked that he not only survived but apparently has full and unconditional support, particularly in light the rumblings that I was hearing a year ago.

The man must have pics of Wexner, Gee, Schottenstein and Ong in a hot tub....naked.....with an African baby named O.J. It's the only god damned thing that possibly makes this whole thing sensible.

 

[Buckskin86]

Published: 12/14/2012
Ohio State's polarizing AD Gene Smith draws peers? praise, fans? scorn
BY DAVE BRIGGS
BLADE SPORTS WRITER

COLUMBUS ? Gene Smith knows his emotions will churn when he watches next month?s national championship game, the empty sense of what could have been crossing with the satisfaction of what is.

In an alternative world, the contest would have been deeply personal, matching the two schools nearest his heart and the only unbeaten teams in major college football. Instead, the Ohio State athletic director will cheer for Notre Dame, where he played defensive end on its 1973 title team and coached for four years after graduation, while chewing the question forever unknowable because of the Buckeyes? postseason ban.

What if OSU and not one-loss Alabama was the Fighting Irish?s foil in the BCS title game?

"There is that conflict," Smith said in a phone interview this week. "I wish we had the opportunity to be considered. Who knows if we would have been chosen to be in that position? I would have loved to find that out."

Yet for Ohio State?s once-embattled leader, life is good these days.

Or, at least, better than it was.

While Smith remains a polarizing figure among many fans ? he was booed at a Buckeye basketball game in January and has since avoided speaking in similar settings ? his department is largely thriving in Year 1 after a scandal that seemed poised to deliver a devastating wallop.

The two revenue cows are among the nation?s elite, with first-year coach Urban Meyer leading a six-win football team in 2011 to its sixth perfect season in school history and the basketball team under Thad Matta perched familiarly in the top 10; OSU last month received a $10 million gift ? the largest single athletics donation in school history ? to help finance a 4,000-seat arena that will replace aging St. John Arena; and two of Smith?s top lieutenants recently became athletic directors at Division I schools (Pat Chun was hired by Florida Atlantic in July and Ben Jay was tabbed by Hawaii this month).

Meanwhile, emails obtained by The Blade through an open records request illustrate Smith never lost support from many of the school?s top power brokers ? and portray him as the point man in the hire of Meyer.

"Gene has gone through a lot over the past 10 months," current Board of Trustees chair Robert Schottenstein wrote to president E. Gordon Gee and board members Alex Shumate and Gil Gloyd in November, 2011, after OSU landed Meyer. "I think he's done a very fine job, under considerable stress, and a great job on this. I think we've turned an important corner."

cont...

http://www.toledoblade.com/Ohio-Sta...Gene-Smith-draws-peers-praise-fans-scorn.html

 

[BuckBackHome]

NM

 

[redbenn]

http://www.toledoblade.com/Ohio-Sta...Gene-Smith-draws-peers-praise-fans-scorn.html

"Gene has gone through a lot over the past 10 months," current Board of Trustees chair Robert Schottenstein wrote... "I think he's done a very fine job"...

 

[Buckskin86]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psMyHN7xIDw"]Gene Smith on Bishop & Rothman 97.1 The Fan - YouTube[/ame]

 

[LitlBuck]

Gene Smith comes up with a brilliant idea:( and you want to talk about raising ticket prices for home games.

Big Ten athletic directors have a lot of decisions to make for the future, including the possibility of playing nine or even 10 conference home games per season starting in 2014. If the league does go that route, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith has an idea.

"I would like to see more neutral sites in those scenarios," Smith told ESPN.com. "We've got a great stadium in Chicago, one in Detroit, one in Indianapolis, and now we have the East Coast. So I can see more neutral sites for conference games."

The idea wouldn't be totally new for the Big Ten. In 2010, there were two such neutral-site league games, as Indiana played Penn State at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., and Northwestern and Illinois met in Wrigley Field. The game between the Wildcats and Illini drew a lot of attention, though not always for the best reasons as the field dimensions didn't exactly turn out as expected.

The Big Ten also discussed the possibility of using NFL stadiums and even Major League Baseball parks for big events to kick off the season when the Pac-12 scheduling alliance was announced. With that alliance dead, perhaps the conference could generate some early season buzz instead with league games at such sites.

"Neutral sites are great; those are just great opportunities," Northwestern athletic director Jim Phillips told ESPN.com. "They have to be in the right places and have the right matchups, but the fans have responded in a positive way to some of those neutral-site games. We need to listen to them and we need to pay attention to those things. We may not do everything that the fans want, but that’s what's made our game so great and more popular than it’s ever been."

more
http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/70328/neutral-site-league-games-in-b1g-future

 

[BuckBackHome]

Where exactly did this guy go to school? Oh yeah, now I remember.