Magic_Fan

January 15th, 2024 at 4:45 PM ^

Yeah, this feels like a weird move. They have a deep bench of Gene Smith protégés, who surely would have kept the status quo and continued to cross out M’s. Feels to me like they just went for an AD with experience spending a lot of money. 

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Denard In Space

January 15th, 2024 at 4:54 PM ^

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but the man's track record includes hiring Devout Soldier of the Lord Hugh Freeze, and the unimpeachable Matt Luke at Ole Miss, overseeing a 5 year bowl game drought, leaving for TAMU and then re-signing Jimbo Fisher only to subsequently give him $75 million to go on vacation forever, AND FINALLY fumbling the bag with the potential hiring of the immortal MARK Stoops*. I am TREMBLING at this visionary hire by the Central Ohio Board Of Sporting Business. 

 

/s

 

*Originally accidentally I wrote "Bob Stoops" when the reality is somehow much worse. 

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Vasav

January 15th, 2024 at 4:59 PM ^

I think my general take on ADs is you want them to be silent. Brandon may legit have been the worst P5 AD ever. Warde gets hate and some of it is deserved but mostly I'm curious if there's been an AD we have had a positive impression of - not Warde, not Brandon, not Bill Martin, who blamed the last guy (googled: Tom Moss?) for financial woes. Everyone likes Canham right? Did folks like the ADs of the '90s, including Bo?

Anyhow, I mainly respected or didn't think of Smith except the one time in The Game this year when he got mouthy with security and sounded very entitled. If he didn't do that, he'd have been the platonic ideal of an AD.

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brad

January 15th, 2024 at 5:06 PM ^

Looks like the Eleven Warriors crew, who simultaneously (a) cry about their five star recruits getting lifted by nothing more than higher paying southern programs, (b) preach about their program's pristine clean "its about more than money and the NFL draft here" culture, history and tradition (lol), and (c) openly acknowledge Ohio State's need to pay top dollar for five stars, will get what they want.

Ohio State will likely be outbidding Miami and the rest of the south in the next recruiting cycle.  Their fans will paper over that and point out that the kids show up because of Ohio State's unique culture.

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UgLi Eric

January 16th, 2024 at 6:59 AM ^

It sort of feels like the one and done culture of Kentucky basketball. Since Bama basically created the culture and everyone from MSU (NTMSU), Georgia, TamU, Miami and OSU are copying it. Does OSU go the route of Kentucky bssketball of late? It seems like they are leaning into each and every weakness by doubling down on whatever has proven to work in the last few years. It could work splendidly. I wouldn't doubt any prediction from national title to Texas A&M 2023, but I'll always air on the side of caution and say OSU is the new favorite to win it all and keep going bucknuts!

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Cam

January 15th, 2024 at 5:14 PM ^

It's obvious why they're doing this. Bjork is a very unnatural fit except for one area: NIL. He'll give them a blank check to spend on recruits.

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Amazinblu

January 15th, 2024 at 5:28 PM ^

The question is.. do the Buckeye boosters have pockets as deep as A&M oil money?

We’re going to find out - but, my guess is.. “no, they don’t.”

And, if you want to see mercenaries - and locker room discord, grab your popcorn.  

P.S. The Lamborghini dealership in Columbus (Dublin) is about a 20 minute drive from the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.   And, it’s eve closer to the O$U airport.

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smotheringD

January 15th, 2024 at 8:11 PM ^

The question is.. do the Buckeye boosters have pockets as deep as A&M oil money?

Boosters?  I thought Name, Image, and Likeness was about capitalizing on a player's popularity commercially.  Like signing autographs, doing commercials, and endorsing products.  If you're using Booster money isn't that pay to play?  Isn't that against the rules?  Where's the NCAA in all of this? /s

No wonder Coach Jim's heading for the NFL.  Suspended for 1/2 the season?  He's all about competing with well-defined rules.  CFB is a joke, which makes our winning the National Championship the way we did all that more satisfying.

Million-dollar question...how do we replace Coach Herb?

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ex dx dy

January 16th, 2024 at 11:35 AM ^

That's obviously the goal, but Bjork doesn't bring the money. TAMU has certifiably insane boosters with certifiably insane amounts of money. For all we know Bjork just woke up every morning in a pile of cash and just had to give it out to people. We don't really know how effective the guy is at drumming up money from people that aren't already shoveling it into his office before he can even sit down.

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NotAMichiganSpy

January 15th, 2024 at 5:36 PM ^

IMO This will work out well for them. OSU with A&M NIL would be annoying. It only failed at A&M because they sucked and Jimbo didnt keep them in line. OSU wont ever truly suck and the winning will keep the NIL divas in line.

This guy made a mistake extending Jimbo and some bad coaching hires, but all the schools he worked at didnt have as easy of coaching options as OSU has due to all their coaching trees and alumni.

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BlockM

January 15th, 2024 at 5:50 PM ^

Not sure they can recruit better than they already have... That A&M money isn't going anywhere. Teams with huge NIL pockets will continue to have huge NIL pockets. Building a winning culture isn't something you can just throw money at.

OSU is gonna continue to recruit really well. They'll have good coaching because they money will be there and the expectations are high. But a spendy AD doesn't really move the needle IMO.

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