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

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jlb1705;2355406; said:
Quoted from a rumor mill thread:



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.
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Agree. His crisis management was abysmal, but if he had been in on it, we would have been looking at LOIC and Penn State level sanctions.
 
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More shit -- well, more of the same old shit, with one new he-said/she-said detail added to make it new shit again -- on the way.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/ncaaf-...lege-football-s-inner-workings-202143287.html

A thorough retelling of the Ohio State "tattoogate" scandal including the previously unreported transcripts of NCAA interviews by Jim Tressel and athletic director Gene Smith.

You can see Tressel hanging himself with his own words as he tries to explain his cover-up of the scandal that doomed his career and led to major sanctions against the program. Meanwhile, on a separate issue, Smith is vague on some details but claims he was forceful in multiple conversations with booster Bobby DiGeronimo, who was cited for overpaying players for work at his companies and later banned from associating with the Buckeyes for the next 10 years.
That leads to DiGeronimo, who speaks publicly for the first time, to slam Smith, claiming the two never had the conversations Smith claims they did.
"Never," DiGeronimo said. "Never called me. Never called me one time. Never. We never had a conversation about that. There was nothing. He's lying. He's outright lying. Never any meeting. Never any voicemail. Everything he says is a lie. Everything."
Smith declined to comment on the book.
"The System" also presents the case that NCAA investigators were overzealous in parts of their investigation against Ohio State, most notably in ignoring some pretty compelling evidence that DiGeronimo overpaid player DeVier Posey by a mere $3.07 and should never have received a five-game suspension for that. It also shows the seemingly differing and troubling standards for players and coaches/administrators, where the former must recall every detail precisely or risk eligibility, while the latter is allowed to struggle with specifics.
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So now Gene is telling newspapers that he goes groveling to his beloved domers every year, and they slam the door in Ohio State's face. Good God, when is this incompetent fool going to leave? I really, really have come to loathe this guy. And BTW Gene, ND hasn't been a top 10 program for twenty fucking years, you godforsaken fucking clown!

http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2013/09/not_quite_105000_early-season.html
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
So now Gene is telling newspapers that he goes groveling to his beloved domers every year, and they slam the door in Ohio State's face. Good God, when is this incompetent fool going to leave? I really, really have come to loathe this guy. And BTW Gene, ND hasn't been a top 10 program for twenty fucking years, you godforsaken fucking clown!

http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2013/09/not_quite_105000_early-season.html
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I actually like knowing he asks them every year. I also enjoy knowing that they want no part of us every year either. Now if Gene had a sac and would just say "I didn't think you pussies would" and then hang up, he might be tolerable. Being told no by ND is the least of our scheduling problems.

On second thought I don't think Gene can do anything to become tolerable.
 
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I'm surprised they would say no to a home-and-home series like they've done with Oklahoma the past couple of years. But Gene might just be thick enough to think they'd want to get into a long-term relationship. "Hey you guys wanna play each other the next 20 years? Uh hello? Ahhhh f*** it, I'll try again next year."
 
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UpNorth_Buckeye said:
I'm surprised they would say no to a home-and-home series like they've done with Oklahoma the past couple of years. But Gene might just be thick enough to think they'd want to get into a long-term relationship. "Hey you guys wanna play each other the next 20 years? Uh hello? Ahhhh f*** it, I'll try again next year."
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It must burn them up that we have all-time scoreboard on their asses, including three straight plungerings. I would think they'd want to try and even that out.
 
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I'm not a fan of Gene Smith, but I have to give him a big shout out for his the ability to trick over 103,000 people into paying $75+ to see a donkey show disguised as a football game.
That kind of cunning and business acumen is hard to find. Well done, Gene. Well done.
 
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Bucky Katt said:
I'm not a fan of Gene Smith, but I have to give him a big shout out his the ability to trick over 103,000 people into paying $75+ to see a donkey show disguised as a football game.
That kind of cunning and business acumen is hard to find. Well done, Gene. Well done.
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If the AD thing doesn't work out he could probably get a job at Electronic Arts; they've been doing that shit for 25 years.
 
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Put me down for saying that Gene Smith cost Ohio State two national titles. The first was 2012 because there was no bowl game. The second will be 2013, because of the soft schedule he engineered. The buckeyes will need 3 straight undefeated seasons.
 
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maximumblitz said:
Put me down for saying that Gene Smith cost Ohio State two national titles. The first was 2012 because there was no bowl game. The second will be 2013, because of the soft schedule he engineered. The buckeyes will need 3 straight undefeated seasons.
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I dunno. The Cal series was scheduled in Feb 2005 when Cal was coming off a 10-2 season, and Gene cancelled series with Syracuse and the return trip to Wazzu in the late '00s when it was apparent they were shitty. Vandy cancelled. Georgia got axed because of the supposed B1G/PAC-12 challenge that never materialized. Not much Gene could do. Top tier teams aren't exactly beating down the door to schedule difficult games on little notice. Boise St was even considered but they wanted a return trip. F that. OSU isn't some Pac-12 bottom feeder begging for a Thursday night game on the blue turf to build cred.

The schedule is what it is. It's not Ohio State's fault the rest of the conference sucks.
 
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