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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Wexner drove off an exceptional President making the job toxic for many top candidates around the country and seems to have then engineered the hiring of an unqualified puppet. Wexner is the problem here. Thanks for the 200M, but it might be time for him to go.
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NastyNatiBuck
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It says a lot about the state of Ohio that the guy who literally made Jeffrey Epstein is THE power broker in the state. I'd rather our university be a lower tier of academic prestige than have this asshole have the level of influence that he does.
Ted Carter has had 2 big, public facing choices since he took over, and he hired Ross Bjork and chose Chris Pan.
I want 1 thing when I hear people talking about Ohio State: to be proud to say I have 2 degrees from there. Every time a Ted Carter decision becomes public, I feel embarrassed.
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NastyNatiBuck
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I realize they have a heavy slant, but also their reporting here has aligned with the direction that Ted Carter has been slowly trickling the truth out toward: that Ted Carter made the decision. You'd be foolish to take what the Rooster reports at face value, and you'd be foolish to disregard their reporting.
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ORD_Buckeye
Wrong glass, Sir.
Any benefit from Wexner has run its course, and he's much more of a liability now. Even his giving has always been more about helping the city grow (Center For The Arts and Medical Center) than concentrating on students, faculty and academics. And if you really want to hear a sleazy story about him, look into how Columbus Academy changed their century old criteria for picking a valedictorian the very year that his oldest became a senior.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Ohio State President Ted Carter Confident Athletic Department Will Remain Profitable in Revenue-Sharing Era Without Cutting Any Sports
Ohio State president Ted Carter expects OSU’s athletic department to be one of only a few that remains self-sufficient with revenue sharing. He says OSU will not cut any of its 36 sports.
OHIO STATE PRESIDENT TED CARTER CONFIDENT ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT WILL REMAIN PROFITABLE IN REVENUE-SHARING ERA WITHOUT CUTTING ANY SPORTS
Even though Ohio State athletics is reporting a $10 million deficit for the 2024 fiscal year and its expenses are about to increase even more in 2025, Ted Carter is confident Ohio State’s athletic department will remain profitable without cutting any sports.
Ohio State’s new president says the deficit for the fiscal year that just ended shouldn’t be seen as a reason to worry. Echoing what new Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork told the Columbus Dispatch last month when he revealed that OSU would report a budget shortfall of more than $10 million for the year, which started in July 2023 and ended in June 2024, Carter said that deficit was largely a result of Ohio State hosting only six home football games in 2023. He expects Ohio State to make up that revenue by hosting eight home football games in 2024.
“Actually that's not that bad of a deficit, considering that on many years we have eight home football games,” Carter told Eleven Warriors in an interview for this week’s Real Pod Wednesdays. “So I have no doubt we'll be able to recover that.”
That said, Ohio State is beginning to brace for a new category of expense that will hit athletic departments across the country next year when schools begin sharing revenue with their athletes for the first time. Bjork told the Dispatch that Ohio State will share the maximum amount of revenue it is permitted to share with its athletes, a number that’s projected to start at approximately $22 million and increase each year.
Given that many college athletic departments already spend more than they make each year, it will only become more difficult for most athletic departments across the country to be self-sufficient in the new era of college sports. But while most athletic departments will likely need subsidies from their universities in order to cover the costs, Carter is confident Ohio State athletics will come up with the revenue to cover the added costs on its own.
“We've just got to make sure that we maintain, even with this revenue share model, that we can do everything that we can to be self-sufficient,” Carter said. “This program has been self-sufficient, and we anticipate it will be self-sufficient going forward. And I would argue if you look across the entire landscape of college football, you're going to find only maybe three to five programs that are going to be able to say that in the next model.”
One question that has lingered with revenue sharing on the horizon is whether Ohio State and other athletic departments will need to reduce the number of sports they sponsor in order to decrease costs. Carter is adamant, however, that Ohio State plans to keep all of its nation-leading 36 varsity sports teams.
“We made one big, bold statement, and that is we're going to maintain 36 Division I sports,” said Carter, who was the president at Nebraska before becoming Ohio State’s president in January. “I watched during COVID-19 what schools like William & Mary and Stanford (which also has 36 sports but opted to cut 11 sports in 2020 before reinstating them in 2021) went through. Even in the state of Nebraska, which happened before I got there, the University of Nebraska at Omaha cut football and wrestling at the Division II level to move into the Summit League. Heavily criticized at the time.
“And as I've watched the college landscape and think about what it means to maintain these sports, it's important once you get them to do everything you can to hold on to them. You don't want to lose that. It's too important to the student-athlete. So we've made a declarative statement that we're going to hold on to that.”
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We may not be seeing some good decisions made outside the spotlight, but I still don’t see anything that changes my original opinion about his fit to the job. One can be the greatest sales person in the world, but be a lousy marketing manager. One can manage large numbers of people in one context and fail miserably doing it in another. One hopes that he will surround himself with trusted advisors that he will trust and rely on when making strategic and management decisions.
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NastyNatiBuck
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And that's fine if we're talking about an institution that can't do better. Ohio State ran off a VERY component president whose background and expertise were perfect for all the innovation initiatives that Ohio State, Columbus, Ohio, and the Midwest have been working toward for the last 5+ years for this shmuck who seems to fall upwards at every step. Ohio State can do better.
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Ohio State President Ted Carter Says OSU Will Continue to Provide Scholarships for All 36 Sports
Ohio State will continue to provide scholarships for all 36 of its sports, Ted Carter said Friday during his investiture as Ohio State’s president.
Ohio State President Ted Carter Says OSU Will Continue to Provide Scholarships for All 36 Sports
Ohio State will continue to provide scholarships for all 36 of its sports.
Ohio State president Ted Carter made that declaration on Friday while laying out his 10-year plan for the university as part of his investiture ceremony, in which Carter was formally sworn in as Ohio State’s president.
“When I hired (athletic director) Ross Bjork, he and I decided right away that we would retain all 36 Division I sports programs,” Carter said. “It's important. We have over 1,000 student athletes. It's important for our Olympic sports that we do this. Not many other schools are going to be able to do this. And we will remain financially self-sufficient. That's no small order, because we're going to be sharing a fair bit of our revenue with our student-athletes. And finally, we're going to retain scholarships for all 36 Division I sports.
“We will determine how best to do that. There's a lot of big decisions to be made. But these decisions will help shape the conversation about how we can make sure that our student-athletes remain students first.”
Both Carter and Bjork have said repeatedly since Bjork’s hiring in January that they are committed to keeping all 36 of Ohio State’s varsity sports. Carter, who started his tenure as OSU’s president in January, told Eleven Warriors this summer that he was confident the athletic department would remain self-sufficient even as its expenses are set to increase next year when colleges are permitted to begin sharing revenue with athletes. Bjork has said Ohio State will share the maximum amount of revenue with its athletes; that number is projected to start at $20.5 million for the 2025-26 academic year, Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger reported last week.
Whether Ohio State would continue to fund scholarships for all 36 of its sports had been called into question, however, as Bjork said this summer Ohio State might not be able to continue funding all of its non-revenue-generating sports at the same level it currently does. During an interview with Eleven Warriors in August, Bjork said how many scholarships it funds for each sport could be a “moving target” as OSU decides how to balance its spending between scholarships, revenue sharing and NIL, also indicating that there could be athletes who receive shared revenue instead of a scholarship.
Carter’s comments on Friday, however, indicate that Ohio State is committed to funding at least some scholarships for all 36 sports. That commitment goes hand in hand with Carter’s desire for Ohio State’s athletes to flourish not only in their respective sports but in the classroom. And while the landscape of college sports is about to change significantly with the implementation of revenue sharing, Carter believes it is important for the student-athlete model to remain in place.
“They're all going to be professionals, but very few of them will be professionals in athletics,” Carter said. “We're one of the top academic performing athletic departments in the country ... the GPA of all of our student-athletes across the board is over 3.3. This is exceptional. A 94% graduation rate. We are top 10 not only in what we do on the field, on the court, in the pool, but in the classroom. And I think that it is so important that we hold on to the student-athlete model, because if we lose it, and the student-athletes get titled employees, then we won't have student-athletes anymore, and we will be farm systems for other sports programs.”
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