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

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Dryden said:
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Ohio State AD Gene Smith said in statement he is not interviewing for AD job at Texas, contrary to report today http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2013/10/ohio_state_athletic_gene_smith_1.html …
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http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/01/28/OSU_Gene_Smith_promotion_raise.html
OSU Athletic Director Gene Smith to get promotion, raise

Gene Smith would be promoted to vice president of Ohio State University while remaining athletic director through 2020, under a proposed contract extension that the university board of trustees plans to vote on later this week.

Under the deal, Smith would be paid $940,484 a year in base salary, an increase of about $100,000, retroactive to July of last year. He also would be eligible for merit-based raises. His current contract was set to expire in mid-2016.

In his new role, Smith will have broader control over the business side of university sports and entertainment venues. He will have joint oversight of the Office of Business and Finance in OSU’s Business Advancement Division, which includes the Jerome Schottenstein Center, the Blackwell Inn, Drake Union, the Fawcett Center and the Office of Trademark and Licensing Services.

He also will be responsible for an agreement with Nationwide Arena to bolster revenue and find new opportunities to work together with the university.

“Gene Smith is one of this country’s most accomplished collegiate athletics directors, with an exemplary record of national leadership and service,” interim OSU President Joseph A. Alutto said in a statement today.

“Thanks to his dedication to student success, graduation success rates of Ohio State’s student-athletes have risen by 11 percentage points, to 89 percent. His vision and commitment to excellence have made Ohio State’s Department of Athletics one of the strongest in the nation.”

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Honestly, I just do not see what he has done to deserve a contract extension.

I'm not giving him credit for hiring Urban Meyer.

The only reason I see for an extension is because Ohio State does not have a full-time president. It's definitely not due to his fundraising or rules oversight of the athletic department or his coach hirings.
 
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BVistahC said:
Honestly, I just do not see what he has done to deserve a contract extension.

I'm not giving him credit for hiring Urban Meyer.

The only reason I see for an extension is because Ohio State does not have a full-time president. It's definitely not due to his fundraising or rules oversight of the athletic department or his coach hirings.
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He deserves no credit for hiring Meyer. Gee and Schottenstein specifically kept him out of the loop and handled the entire thing from first contact through the final contract themselves.
 
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maximumblitz said:
He has way more value as a pure vice president than a hybrid.
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VP of "I'm Rich, Bitch" maybe. If you think he's a joke as an AD, he's utterly unqualified to do jack shit outside of the athletic department. This whole thing stinks. It's as if the university is settting him up for a million dollar paycheck until the day he fucking dies. Like I said, he must "know" something about something....or someone.

This whole thing stinks on ice.
 
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