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

[cdiddy70]

Cant view the video from my corner office.

What is Jeans waxing eloquently in broken english about?

His market value, sweet spot, how smart it was to go to the Gator Bowl, raising fb ticket prices, adding more headcount to an already bloated inefficient department, firing the hockey coach?

 

[Buckskin86]

Q&A with Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith
"I think we're in pretty good shape. We're so blessed to have the support of Buckeye Nation, which allows us to do what we do." -- Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith
By Bill Rabinowitz
The Columbus Dispatch Sunday May 5, 2013

On Tuesday, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith sat down with OSU football beat writer Bill Rabinowitz for an interview covering several topics.

Q: How would you assess the general state of Ohio State?s athletic program?

A: I think we?re in pretty good shape. We?re so blessed to have the support of Buckeye Nation, which allows us to do what we do. The coaches are doing a great job. It?s been a strong academic year. We had 511 athletes recognized last month with 3.0 GPAs.

Q: In terms of specific sports, let?s start with football. When you look back at the program since Urban Meyer took over, what stands out the most?

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http://buckeyextra.dispatch.com/content/stories/2013/05/05/0505-ohio-state-gene-smith-interview.html

 

[BayBuck]

Greg Beals seems to be doing okay, 23-11 record so far in his 3rd season here.

LAX's Nick Myers is turning out to be a solid coaching hire/promotion as well.

 

[LitlBuck]

LAX's Nick Myers is turning out to be a solid coaching hire/promotion as well.

I will admit that he has made a couple good hires in a few of the non-revenue producing sports but I think he made a big mistake with the hockey program and the women's basketball program by hanging on to Foster for too long.

 

[Dryden]

http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/genrel/053113aaa.html

Gene Smith Lauded with NAAC Organizational Leadership Award
Smith will be recognized June 12 during National Association for Athletics Compliance Convention
May 31, 2013

COLUMBUS, Ohio- Gene Smith, associate vice president and director of athletics at The Ohio State University, has been honored with the 2013 NAAC Organizational Leadership Award, the National Association for Athletics Compliance announced Thursday. Smith will officially be recognized at the annual NAAC Convention June 12 in Orlando, Fla.

The Organizational Leadership Award is designed to honor organizational leaders who have demonstrated outstanding commitments to promoting compliance within their organizations and on a national level.

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At Ohio State, the 56-year old Smith oversees the nation's most comprehensive and one of its most successful collegiate athletics programs. The department sponsors 36 fully-funded varsity sports with more than 1,000 student-athletes regularly competing for Big Ten Conference and NCAA championships. The athletics department is completely self-supporting; it receives no university funds, tax dollars or student fees. In fiscal year 2010-11, the department transferred nearly $30 million in assessments to the university, including more than $15 million in grant-in-aid reimbursement. Smith is known for outstanding fiscal controls.

http://www.nacda.com/sports/naacc/spec-rel/053013aaa.html

Gene Smith is in his ninth year as director of athletics at Ohio State. During his tenure, he has been a great advocate for NAAC and has been an outspoken advocate for the compliance profession. Smith has been involved with the association during the review of the New Enforcement Model, specifically with the D1A Task Force on Compliance and Enforcement (alongside Members of our NAAC Board of Directors), and most recently as a visible proponent for the development of the NAAC Certification Program.

Smith, a Past President of NACDA, has also served on the NCAA Management Council, the NCAA Committee on Infractions, the NCAA Executive Committee, the NCAA Football Rules Committee, among many others. His leadership and vision for our profession has helped to propel the compliance professional forward. Additionally, he has provided great support to his own institution and the individuals who serve in a compliance capacity at Ohio State. From May 2011 and running through July 1, 2014, Smith will serve as a member of the NCAA Division I Administration Cabinet, which oversees and recommends membership to NCAA committees. He recently joined the Kids Unlimited National Advisory Board, an organization committed to positively transforming the lives of inner-city children growing up in Toledo, Ohio.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/genrel/053113aaa.html



http://www.nacda.com/sports/naacc/spec-rel/053013aaa.html

The man who's seen two major programs put on probation and whose compliance office was found to be woefully incompetent?

Gene Gene The Blame Shifting Machine must have a blackmail file bigger than J. Edgar Hoover's.

 

[Jagdaddy]

The man who's seen two major programs put on probation and whose compliance office was found to be woefully incompetent?

Gene Gene The Blame Shifting Machine must have a blackmail file bigger than J. Edgar Hoover's.

Positively Ferentzian: I guess that if you lower expectations enough, the bar for improvement is pretty easy to step over. Presumably, Vin Diesel will now win the best actor Oscar for Fast and Furious 6.

 

[Buckskin86]

NCAA President to Form Council of Athletic Directors
By RACHEL BACHMAN

ORLANDO, Fla.?Operating the National Collegiate Athletic Association has long been like sailing a large ship?a rush to one approach followed by a lurch to another. NCAA president Mark Emmert said Saturday that it's time for a shift toward empowering those close to the action: athletic directors.

Emmert agreed Saturday morning to form a council of 10 athletic directors who would meet regularly with him and his senior staff, starting in July, he said in a Saturday interview with The Wall Street Journal. The idea is to leave fewer decisions about things like recruiting rules in the hands of busy college presidents and more with the athletic directors who work with coaches and their assistants. The agreement came during Emmert's visit here to speak to the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.

"It's clear right now where the association has gone, it's pushed the pendulum too far in one direction," Emmert said in the interview. "And it really has cut athletic directors out of the national discussion."

The athletic directors on the council will include Kevin Anderson at Maryland, Mitch Barnhart at Kentucky, Gene Bleymaier at San Jose State, Greg Byrne at Arizona, John Currie at Kansas State, Dave Heeke at Central Michigan, Warde Manuel at Connecticut, Dan Radakovich at Clemson, Gene Smith at Ohio State, Peter Fields at Division I-AA Montana State and Peg Bradley-Doppes at Division I-AAA Denver (the non-football division).

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324688404578547781699014930.html?dsk=y

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

I'm going to put this here rather than the hockey thread because I think it directly relates to GS' woeful job performance as it relates to the hockey program that has veered from complete indifference and lack of focus to the mind-numbing decision to undo the one good coaching hire that he's made and totally set the program back three or four years right when it appeared that it was going in the right direction.

Why does he almost seem to be trying to destroy our hockey program?

http://www.buckys5thquarter.com/2013/4/29/4283628/big-ten-hockey-payout-tv-contract

 

[Buckskin86]

Gene Smith on Florida?s Muschamp, ?I Just Hope We Don?t Play Them?- Cleveland radio 7 17 13

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Gene Smith on Florida?s Muschamp, ?I Just Hope We Don?t Play Them?- Cleveland radio 7 17 13

God damn, I hope the new President forces him out. When is the fucking nightmare of an experiment going to end?

 

[Dee-Liem]

God damn, I hope the new President forces him out. When is the [censored]ing nightmare of an experiment going to end?

His contract expires at the end of 2015-16.

There probably won't be a change prior to that, barring another brush with the NCAA (Knocking on Wood).

 

[Buckskin86]

Gene Smith Interview part 1- NBC4i video

Gene Smith Interview part 2- NBC4i video

Gene Smith Interview part 3- NBC4i video

 

[Magua]

God damn, I hope the new President forces him out. When is the fucking nightmare of an experiment going to end?

Oh, his interview on 92.3 The Fan was not bad at all. I actually thought he did quite well. It's funny how the media took that quote and made it a headline though. They were joking around about Urban and Muschamp going at each other and all the publicity it's getting so he said laughingly "I hope we don't have to play them!" and the way I took it was the media firestorm would be ridiculous trying to make mountains out of molehills. He also said basketball recruiting is WAY worse than football (primarily because of AAU coaches deliberately asking straight up for payments. He said he can't wait until Thad retires and writes a book about how many recruits they've walked away from because of it.

That was a small bit of the interview, and the rest of it was how sleezy recruiting has become and how entitled athletes feel these days (and to Gene's credit he said the universities are a big part of the problem as well).

I'm no Gene Smith fan but that interview didn't hurt.

 

[jlb1705]

Quoted from a rumor mill thread:

Gene ignored the Tressel thing or knew about it and did nothing.

Care to defend this assertion? The fact that Gene Smith didn't earn a show-cause penalty of his own and that the athletic department avoided even larger sanctions seems to refute that.