Ravi Bellamkonda, tOSU President

[Jaxbuck]

A grown man walking around in a fighter pilot jacket turned out to to be a bad hire?

Who knew? Seemed like such a normal thing.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

A grown man walking around in a fighter pilot jacket turned out to to be a bad hire?

Who knew? Seemed like such a normal thing.

The old "peaked in flight school" adage.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

We'll see. The devil will be in the details. Does this mean that they'll fund all sports at a level to be competitive: bring our dead last in the B1G hockey budget at least to the league median, build the women's arena and so on.

Or does it mean that they'll half ass sports that they secretly want to axe and then say they had no choice because they weren't competitive.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2026/05/02/ohio-state-president-bellamkonda-commits-to-all-36-sports-with-a-caveat/89897745007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=z118143p119050l004450c119050e1133xxv118143&gca-ft=46&gca-ds=sophi

 

[Thump]

We'll see. The devil will be in the details. Does this mean that they'll fund all sports at a level to be competitive: bring our dead last in the B1G hockey budget at least to the league median, build the women's arena and so on.

Or does it mean that they'll half ass sports that they secretly want to axe and then say they had no choice because they weren't competitive.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/education/2026/05/02/ohio-state-president-bellamkonda-commits-to-all-36-sports-with-a-caveat/89897745007/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=z118143p119050l004450c119050e1133xxv118143&gca-ft=46&gca-ds=sophi

Hopefully the latter.

This model is not sustainable with 36 varsity sports.