BuckeyE Focused

Former Ohio State Buckeye Lacrosse Player, Justin Inacio joins Buckeye Focused to take on the growth and future of lacrosse, expectations in youth sports, training athletes, growing a brand as a student-athlete, the struggles of a collegiate athlete, and of course the football team that calls The Shoe home.

Justin Inacio was a 5-year starter, a 3-time all-American, and the holder of multiple records on the Ohio State men’s lacrosse team. Justin is currently playing professional lacrosse for the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) and National Lacrosse League (NLL). He was also the founder of REPS, an app that connected lacrosse coaches with youth athletes for private and group lessons. REPS was acquired by Talent Share. Talent Share is a company founded by Marc Fleming with Justin now as a part-owner. Talent Share gives the opportunity to collegiate athletes to have a source of income while in college.

*note* | We apologize for the sound quality of this episode. While we would rather provide you with amazing sound quality, we didn’t want this episode not to hit the airwaves, as it is an important conversation on many topics related to youth sports, athlete mental health, and entrepreneurship. While the sound may not be ideal, the content we believe is useful. 

Connect with Justin Inacio: Instagram | LinkedIn

Learn more about Talent Share: website | Instagram

Learn more about Lacrosse: PLL | NLL | Front Office Sports & ESPN on the future of lacrosse

Hosts of Buckeye Focused: Ohio State Buckeye, Nate Oliver (IG), Eric Kasimov (Twitter)

Nate played for the Buckeyes mostly under Coach Jim Tressel between 2007-2011. Nate is the co-host of Buckeye Focused and brings years of football experience, stories, and a passion for football.

Eric is the founder of KazSource, Inc, a dynamic company managing a portfolio of brands and projects in the areas of content, podcasting, production, sports, mental health, insurance, and ventures.

In case you haven’t noticed, we love podcasts. In fact, we love building podcasts. Everything from development to production. Because of all that, we’re building a one-of-a-kind podcast network. If you have a podcast or are looking to launch a new podcast, then we should talk. You can message me on Twitter @eric_kaz or hit us up any way that works for you. Let’s talk about your podcast joining this one-of-a-kind podcast network. 

If you are a current or former Ohio State Buckeye and want to be featured in an upcoming episode of Buckeye Focused: hit us up | Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, or simply email us!

Useful web pages from this episode:

• SportsE+
• KazCM Podcast Production

More content related to Ohio State:

• Tattoogate + Transfer Portal, Coach Tressel ft. Solomon Thomas | Buckeye Focused 6
• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 5 | Special Teams War Daddy & DBs Going Low
• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 4 | Jimmie Bell: “I Got the Courage to Start Over”
• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 3 | Iowa Football Racial Bias Scandal | Toledo Rockets, Diauntae Morrow, Speaks Truths on Time at Iowa
• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 2 | Buckeyes Beat Irish! + The Silver Bullets and The Atmosphere with Buckeye, Nate Oliver
• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 1 | Notre Dame vs Ohio State Preview, Expectations of Jim Knowles’ Defense, and Twitter Warrior of the Week with Buckeye, Nate Oliver
• SE50 | Nate Oliver | Ohio State Buckeyes and Life After Football
• SE26 | James Cotton | A Buckeye Transitioning in Sports, Life, and Business
• SE19 | Chimdi Chekwa | Ohio State Buckeye For Real
• ClutchTimeout | Thad Matta | Championship Culture Stories
• Sports Media Wants Your Clicks—Especially YOU, Buckeye Fans
• Sports Bring People Together

Let’s Connect:

• Eric Kasimov: Twitter, LinkedIn
• Nate Oliver: Instagram | KBK Social Entrepreneurship Program

That’s a wrap:

• Thank you for listening to this episode on SportsE+ titled, “The Future of Lacrosse & Expectations for Youth Sports with Lacrosse Pro, Justin Inacio | Buckeye Focused 7”.
• Follow this podcast on Apple Podcasts
• Follow this podcast on Spotify
• Intro Music, “escape” was provided by Pluto Tracks.
• Check out more from our content platform: SportsE+. The platform where sports + entrepreneurship + podcasting + web3 + mental health collide!

Eric Kasimov

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Tattoogate at Ohio State was a mission to take down the Buckeye football program. And in the aftermath of 2011, it seemed possible. But as it turns out, the Buckeye program is widely considered to be one of the top college football programs in the entire country–and former players, including those in this episode, are a big part of that.

Tattoogate featured the Tattoo 5. It sounds like a band, but it’s filled with misinformation, media clickbait, and basically an attack on college football players and their head coach, Jim Tressel. We aren’t here to decipher all that went down (yet), but we are here to talk to one of the members of The Tattoo 5, Solomon Thomas — and hear stories on Tattoogate and more.

In this episode with Solomon Thomas, we discuss way more than the Tattoogate scandal. We talk homecoming, redshirting, Jim Tressel, NIL, transfer portal, the 2007 College Football National Championship in New Orleans vs LSU, and the 2011 Sugar Bowl vs Arkansas where Solomon Thomas had the game-clinching interception. And of course, we talk about Tattoogate. At the end of the conversation, we discuss Ohio State at Michigan State and re-cap the “fake punt” vs Rutgers, running the ball, heated coaches, blowout games, and protecting players.

More about Solomon Thomas: sports reference | game-clinching interception article on Cleveland.com | Sugar Bowl images (check out the 3rd image from the top!)

Enjoy today’s show featuring former Ohio State Buckeye, Nate Oliver (IG), Eric Kasimov (Twitter), and Solomon Thomas (LinkedIn).

Nate played for the Buckeyes mostly under Coach Jim Tressel between 2007-2011. Nate is the co-host of Buckeye Focused and brings years of football experience, stories, and a passion for football.

Eric is the founder of KazSource, Inc, a dynamic company managing a portfolio of brands and projects in the areas of content, podcasting, production, sports, mental health, insurance, and ventures.

In case you haven’t noticed, we love podcasts. In fact, we love building podcasts. Everything from development to production. Because of all that, we’re building a one-of-a-kind podcast network. If you have a podcast or are looking to launch a new podcast, then we should talk. You can message me on Twitter @eric_kaz or hit us up any way that works for you. Let’s talk about your podcast joining this one-of-a-kind podcast network. 

If you are a current or former Ohio State Buckeye and want to be featured in an upcoming episode of Buckeye Focused: hit us up | Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, or simply email us!

Useful web pages from this episode:

• SportsE+
• KazCM Podcast Production

More content related to Ohio State:

• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 5 | Special Teams War Daddy & DBs Going Low
• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 4 | Jimmie Bell: “I Got the Courage to Start Over”
• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 3 | Iowa Football Racial Bias Scandal | Toledo Rockets, Diauntae Morrow, Speaks Truths on Time at Iowa
• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 2 | Buckeyes Beat Irish! + The Silver Bullets and The Atmosphere with Buckeye, Nate Oliver
• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 1 | Notre Dame vs Ohio State Preview, Expectations of Jim Knowles’ Defense, and Twitter Warrior of the Week with Buckeye, Nate Oliver
• SE50 | Nate Oliver | Ohio State Buckeyes and Life After Football
• SE26 | James Cotton | A Buckeye Transitioning in Sports, Life, and Business
• SE19 | Chimdi Chekwa | Ohio State Buckeye For Real
• ClutchTimeout | Thad Matta | Championship Culture Stories
• Sports Media Wants Your Clicks—Especially YOU, Buckeye Fans
• Sports Bring People Together

Let’s Connect:

• Eric Kasimov: Twitter, LinkedIn
• Nate Oliver: Instagram | KBK Social Entrepreneurship Program

That’s a wrap:

• Thank you for listening to this episode on SportsE+ titled, “Tattoogate + Transfer Portal, Coach Tressel ft. Solomon Thomas | Buckeye Focused 6”.
• Follow this podcast on Apple Podcasts
• Follow this podcast on Spotify
• Intro Music, “escape” was provided by Pluto Tracks.
• Check out more from our content platform: SportsE+. The platform where sports + entrepreneurship + podcasting + web3 + mental health collide!

Eric Kasimov

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What’s the future of special teams in football? As Nate Oliver explains, if you take away special teams, you will take away jobs. We get into the importance of special teams and what it takes to be a special teams player — or as Nate calls it, a War Daddy. What is a special teams war daddy?!

After a weekend of games that saw many leg injuries (it seems like that’s every week now), we talk about defensive backs going low. Football is trying to eliminate head injuries and for good reason, but this is leading to a significant number of lower body injuries. We have to talk about it.

Topics for Buckeye Focused 5 | Special Teams War Daddy & DBs Going Low

• Greg Schiano
• Jeff Hafley
• Urban Meyer
• Mike Locksley
• Michigan @ Ohio State super early preview
• Leg injuries in football are significant
• The future of special teams in football
• Kevin Everett
• Shaun Lane | more than sports
• Rutgers vs Ohio State
• College Football needs more marquee games
• Ohio State | running the ball
• I don’t give a damn for the whole state of Michigan

Enjoy today’s show featuring former Ohio State Buckeye, Nate Oliver (IG) and Eric Kasimov (Twitter).

Nate played for the Buckeyes mostly under Coach Jim Tressel between 2007-2011. Nate is the co-host of Buckeye Focused and brings years of football experience, stories, and a passion for football.

Eric is the founder of KazSource, Inc, a dynamic company managing a portfolio of brands and projects in the areas of content, podcasting, production, sports, mental health, insurance, and ventures.

In case you haven’t noticed, we love podcasts. In fact, we love building podcasts. Everything from development to production. Because of all that, we’re building a one-of-a-kind podcast network. If you have a podcast or are looking to launch a new podcast, then we should talk. You can message me on Twitter @eric_kaz or hit us up any way that works for you. Let’s talk about your podcast joining this one-of-a-kind podcast network. 

If you are a current or former Ohio State Buckeye and want to be featured in an upcoming episode of Buckeye Focused: hit us up | Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, or simply email us!

Useful web pages from this episode:

• SportsE+
• KazCM Podcast Production

More content related to Ohio State:

• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 4 | Jimmie Bell: “I Got the Courage to Start Over”
• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 3 | Iowa Football Racial Bias Scandal | Toledo Rockets, Diauntae Morrow, Speaks Truths on Time at Iowa
• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 2 | Buckeyes Beat Irish! + The Silver Bullets and The Atmosphere with Buckeye, Nate Oliver
• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 1| Notre Dame vs Ohio State Preview, Expectations of Jim Knowles’ Defense, and Twitter Warrior of the Week with Buckeye, Nate Oliver
• SE50 | Nate Oliver | Ohio State Buckeyes and Life After Football
• SE26 | James Cotton | A Buckeye Transitioning in Sports, Life, and Business
• SE19 | Chimdi Chekwa | Ohio State Buckeye For Real
• ClutchTimeout | Thad Matta | Championship Culture Stories
• Sports Media Wants Your Clicks—Especially YOU, Buckeye Fans
• Sports Bring People Together

Let’s Connect:

• Eric Kasimov: Twitter, LinkedIn
• Nate Oliver: Instagram | KBK Social Entrepreneurship Program

That’s a wrap:

• Thank you for listening to this episode on SportsE+ titled, “BUCKEYE FOCUSED 5 | Special Teams War Daddy & DBs Going Low”.
• Follow this podcast on Apple Podcasts
• Follow this podcast on Spotify
• Intro Music, “escape” was provided by Pluto Tracks.
• Check out more from our content platform: SportsE+. The platform where sports + entrepreneurship + podcasting + web3 + mental health collide!

Eric Kasimov

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This is the kind of conversation that has a lasting impact. Jimmie Bell (JB) has had this effect on people for years, but before he started affecting others, he had to get real himself. As a defensive lineman at Ohio State, Jimmie Bell was on the wrong track. As he said, “I was useless to the program.” And then he had a moment and now a story he shared in this episode that led to this:

“I got the courage to start over from the beginning to be who I was.”

Jimmie Bell deserves to be heard–more importantly, he needs to be heard. And we hope you will listen to what JB has to say. We promise you will be impacted by this conversation no matter your background.

While this is “Buckeye Focused”, a buckeye here and a buckeye there spawned this conversation. But this conversation goes way beyond football and buckeyes. I’ve always said “sports bring people together” and this conversation screams that.

More about Jimmie Bell:

Football: Ohio State Defensive Lineman, 1997 Rose Bowl Champion, 1999 New York Giants, 2000 San Diego Chargers

TEDx Talk: Invincible Currency; Better Than a Trophy | TEDxHilliard

Belpre High School Football Coach

Buckeye information

Connect with JB: Facebook | Twitter

It wouldn’t be a Buckeye Focused podcast if we didn’t talk about the big game. And for this week it is the Wisconsin Badgers visiting Columbus, Ohio for a blackout game. Jimmie talks about toughness, running the football, style of play, and Big Ten football.

Game predictions:

Jimmie Bell: OSU | UW

Nate Oliver: OSU | UW

Eric Kasimov: OSU 38 | UW 17

Enjoy today’s show featuring former Ohio State Buckeye, Nate Oliver (IG). Former Buckeye, Jimmie Bell (Facebook), and Eric Kasimov (Twitter).

Nate played for the Buckeyes mostly under Coach Jim Tressel between 2007-2011. Nate is the Director of Keith B. Key Buckeye Social Entrepreneurship Program at The Ohio State University.

JB: “Consider not focusing on what I do, but use what I do to inspire YOU to do ALL YOU can do.” speaker, life and football coach, author, consultant

Eric is the founder of KazSource, Inc, a dynamic company managing a portfolio of brands and projects in the areas of content, podcasting, production, sports, mental health, insurance, and ventures.

In case you haven’t noticed, we love podcasts. In fact, we love building podcasts. Everything from development to production. Because of all that, we’re building a one-of-a-kind podcast network. If you have a podcast or are looking to launch a new podcast, then we should talk. You can message me on Twitter @eric_kaz or hit us up any way that works for you. Let’s talk about your podcast joining this one-of-a-kind podcast network. 

If you are a current or former Ohio State Buckeye and want to be featured in an upcoming episode of Buckeye Focused: hit us up | Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, or simply email us!

Useful web pages from this episode:

• SportsE+
• KazCM Podcast Production

More content related to Ohio State:

• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 3 | Iowa Football Racial Bias Scandal | Toledo Rockets, Diauntae Morrow, Speaks Truths on Time at Iowa
• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 2 | Buckeyes Beat Irish! + The Silver Bullets and The Atmosphere with Buckeye, Nate Oliver
• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 1| Notre Dame vs Ohio State Preview, Expectations of Jim Knowles’ Defense, and Twitter Warrior of the Week with Buckeye, Nate Oliver
• SE50 | Nate Oliver | Ohio State Buckeyes and Life After Football
• SE26 | James Cotton | A Buckeye Transitioning in Sports, Life, and Business
• SE19 | Chimdi Chekwa | Ohio State Buckeye For Real
• ClutchTimeout | Thad Matta | Championship Culture Stories
• Sports Media Wants Your Clicks—Especially YOU, Buckeye Fans
• Sports Bring People Together

Let’s Connect:

• Eric Kasimov: Twitter, LinkedIn
• Nate Oliver: Instagram | KBK Social Entrepreneurship Program

That’s a wrap:

• Thank you for listening to this SportsMatterz episode on SportsE+ titled, “BUCKEYE FOCUSED 3 | Iowa Football Racial Bias Scandal | Toledo Rockets, Diauntae Morrow, Speaks Truths on Time at Iowa + Bucks vs Rockets in The Shoe “.
• Follow this podcast on Apple Podcasts
• Follow this podcast on Spotify
• Intro Music, “escape” was provided by Pluto Tracks.
• Check out more from our content platform: SportsE+. The platform where sports + entrepreneurship + podcasting + web3 + mental health collide!

Eric Kasimov

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Nate Oliver brings on former Iowa Hawkeye and Toledo Rockets safety, Diauntae Morrow, to talk Buckeyes vs Rockets. But the simple fact of these two teams facing off in The Shoe only brought us together to have this dialogue. As our rallying cry goes, “sports bring people together”.  And this conversation is more than just football. We discuss the Iowa football racial bias scandal.

Football is what created the opportunity for this conversation. Diauntae and Nate are former high school football teammates at St. Edward High School in Cleveland, Ohio — and they remain great friends to this day.

Diauntae Morrow played for Coach Kirk Ferentz in 2007 and 2008 before transferring to Toledo to finish his college football career. What led to his leaving of the Hawkeye program is where this conversation must be heard. As you may know, the former Iowa strength and conditioning coach reached a separation agreement with the University of Iowa on June 15, 2020, due to allegations of racism and mistreatment from former players. He was later hired in a controversial move by the Jacksonville Jaguars only to resign soon after.

On June 8, 2020, ESPN published this article: Ex-Iowa DB Diauntae Morrow details alleged 2009 altercation with strength coach Chris Doyle

This podcast episode featuring Diauntae gets into many of the details surrounding this racial bias situation and Iowa football.

This episode gets into incredible high school moments, recruiting stories that can’t be missed, best places to play college football, Toledo football, and of course, all of this with a Buckeye focus.

We have to talk about it — all of it!

Enjoy today’s show featuring former Ohio State Buckeye, Nate Oliver (IG). Former Iowa Hawkeye and Toledo Rocket, Diauntae Morrow (Twitter), and Eric Kasimov (Twitter).

Nate played for the Buckeyes mostly under Coach Jim Tressel between 2007-2011. Nate is the Director of Keith B. Key Buckeye Social Entrepreneurship Program at The Ohio State University.

Diauntae founded The Morrow Group & Co in 2017. The company is based in Cleveland, Ohio where Morrow also serves as the Vice President of the National African American Insurance Association.

Eric is the founder of KazSource, Inc, a dynamic company managing a portfolio of brands and projects in the areas of content, podcasting, production, sports, mental health, insurance, and ventures.

Topics and more for Buckeye Focused 3 | Diauntae Morrow Talks the Iowa Football Racial Bias Scandal

• St Edward High School Football
• Strength and conditioning coach, Chris Doyle
• Iowa Football racial bias scandal | from ESPN
• Racism in college athletics
• NIL and the transfer portal
• Devin Maddox, Toledo Rockets WR | Attended St. Edward High School in Cleveland, Ohio
• CJ Stroud
• Jim Knowles’ defense
• Will Ohio State cover the spread vs Toledo or not? Predictions from Nate & Diauntae

In case you haven’t noticed, we love podcasts. In fact, we love building podcasts. Everything from development to production. Because of all that, we’re building a one-of-a-kind podcast network. If you have a podcast or are looking to launch a new podcast then we should talk. You can message me on Twitter @eric_kaz or hit us up any way that works for you. Let’s talk about your podcast joining this one-of-a-kind podcast network. 

If you are a current or former Ohio State Buckeye and want to be featured in an upcoming episode of Buckeye Focused: hit us up | Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, or simply email us!

Useful web pages from this episode:

• SportsE+
• KazCM Podcast Production

More content related to Ohio State:

• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 2 | Buckeyes Beat Irish! + The Silver Bullets and The Atmosphere with Buckeye, Nate Oliver
• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 1| Notre Dame vs Ohio State Preview, Expectations of Jim Knowles’ Defense, and Twitter Warrior of the Week with Buckeye, Nate Oliver
• SE50 | Nate Oliver | Ohio State Buckeyes and Life After Football
• SE26 | James Cotton | A Buckeye Transitioning in Sports, Life, and Business
• SE19 | Chimdi Chekwa | Ohio State Buckeye For Real
• ClutchTimeout | Thad Matta | Championship Culture Stories
• Sports Media Wants Your Clicks—Especially YOU, Buckeye Fans
• Sports Bring People Together

Let’s Connect:

• Eric Kasimov: Twitter, LinkedIn
• Nate Oliver: Instagram | KBK Social Entrepreneurship Program

That’s a wrap:

• Thank you for listening to this SportsMatterz...

A Buckeye victory grounded out! That’s right, the Buckeyes beat the Irish. We’re back for week 2 of Buckeye Focused. Buckeyes beat Notre Dame in what was a top 5 matchup. We have to talk about it!

Here’s today’s show featuring former Ohio State Buckeye, Nate Oliver (IG). And Eric Kasimov (Twitter).

Nate played for the Buckeyes mostly under Coach Jim Tressel between 2007-2011. Nate is the Director of Keith B. Key Buckeye Social Entrepreneurship Program at The Ohio State University.

Eric is the founder of KazSource, Inc, a dynamic company managing a portfolio of brands and projects in the areas of content, podcasting, production, sports, mental health, insurance, and ventures.

Topics and more for Buckeye Focused 2 | Buckeyes Beat Irish

– Jim Knowles wasting no time in benching a player in-game

– The iconic scene in The Horseshoe featuring Lebron, Bronny, Jayson Tatum, Burrow, Zeke, Curtis Samuel, Terry McLaurin, Chase Young, and many more!

– CJ Stroud and running or not running the football (Menace2Sports call-in show with Zach Smith taking on this topic and more)

– Former Ohio State football walk-on, Xavier Johnson with two huge plays!

– Sports bring people together

– Arkansas State at Ohio State content to get you ready for the game:

2-Deep by OurLads

Menace2Sports Podcast with Zach Smith

Buckeye Talk Podcast by Cleveland.com

Ohio State football coverage by The Athletic

In case you haven’t noticed, we love podcasts. In fact, we love building podcasts. Everything from development to production. Because of all that, we’re building a one-of-a-kind podcast network. If you have a podcast or are looking to launch a new podcast then we should talk. You can message me on Twitter @eric_kaz or hit us up any way that works for you. Let’s talk about your podcast joining this one-of-a-kind podcast network. 

If you are a current or former Ohio State Buckeye and want to be featured in an upcoming episode of Buckeye Focused: hit us up | Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, or simply email us!

Useful web pages from this episode:

• SportsE+
• KazCM Podcast Production

More content related to Ohio State:

• BUCKEYE FOCUSED 1| Notre Dame vs Ohio State Preview, Expectations of Jim Knowles’ Defense, and Twitter Warrior of the Week with Buckeye, Nate Oliver
• SE50 | Nate Oliver | Ohio State Buckeyes and Life After Football
• SE26 | James Cotton | A Buckeye Transitioning in Sports, Life, and Business
• SE19 | Chimdi Chekwa | Ohio State Buckeye For Real
• ClutchTimeout | Thad Matta | Championship Culture Stories
• Sports Media Wants Your Clicks—Especially YOU, Buckeye Fans
• Sports Bring People Together

Let’s Connect:

• Eric Kasimov: Twitter, LinkedIn
• Nate Oliver: Instagram | KBK Social Entrepreneurship Program

That’s a wrap:

• Thank you for listening to this SportsMatterz episode on SportsE+ titled, “BUCKEYE FOCUSED 2 | Buckeyes Beat Irish + The Silver Bullets and The Atmosphere”.
• Follow this podcast on Apple Podcasts
• Follow this podcast on Spotify
• Intro Music, “escape” was provided by Pluto Tracks.
• Check out more from our content platform: SportsE+. The platform where sports + entrepreneurship + podcasting + web3 + mental health collide!

Eric Kasimov

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The pilot episode for Buckeye Focused! Welcome to the newest Ohio State Buckeye football podcast. It’s week one and the Notre Dame Golden Domers are coming to The Shoe for a top 5 matchup. We have to talk about it!

This season 1, week 1 episode of Buckeye Focused is renting space on SportsE+, for the moment. By next week, the “Buckeye Focused” podcast will have its own home.

For now, here’s today’s show featuring former Ohio State Buckeye, Nate Oliver (IG). And former 8th grade outside linebacker that could never keep containment, Eric Kasimov (Twitter).

Nate played for the Buckeyes mostly under Coach Jim Tressel between 2007-2011. Nate is the Director of Keith B. Key Buckeye Social Entrepreneurship Program at The Ohio State University.

Eric is the founder of KazSource, Inc, a dynamic company managing a portfolio of brands and projects in the areas of content, podcasting, production, sports, mental health, insurance, and ventures.

Topics and more for Buckeye Focused S1/W1:

– Malik Zaire, former Notre Dame quarterback and former Ohio native talking a big game on Twitter

– Marcus Freeman

– Baker Mayfield and sports journalist

– Jim Tressel and the 20-Year Anniversary of the 2002 Ohio State Buckeyes National Championship

– Big Ten $7 Billion media deal

– Jim Knowles’ defense and what Nate is hearing from the program

– Preparing to play an elite tight end (Michael Mayer) as a safety (Nate’s position)

– The concern of a thin cornerback room at Ohio State and the “what if” scenario if a safety needs to move to corner

– Red zone offense deficiencies in 2021 and what to do about it in 2022

– C.J. Stroud and running the football (or not)

Nate’s prediction: Ohio State 35, Notre Dame 21 | players to watch: Marvin Harrison Jr and the entire Ohio State defense!

Eric’s prediction Ohio State 45, Note Dame 30 (backdoor cover) | players to watch: Marvin Harrison Jr, Julian Fleming, and Steele Chambers

– Notre Dame at Ohio State content to get you ready for the game:

2-Deep by OurLads

Menace2Sports Podcast with Zach Smith

Buckeye Talk Podcast by Cleveland.com

Ohio State football coverage by The Athletic

In case you haven’t noticed, we love podcasts. In fact, we love building podcasts. Everything from development to production. Because of all that, we’re building a one-of-a-kind podcast network. If you have a podcast or are looking to launch a new podcast then we should talk. You can message me on Twitter @eric_kaz or hit us up any way that works for you. Let’s talk about your podcast joining this one-of-a-kind podcast network. 

If you are a current or former Ohio State Buckeye and want to be featured in an upcoming episode of Buckeye Focused: hit us up | Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, or simply email us!

Useful web pages from this episode:

• SportsE+
• KazCM Podcast Production

More content related to Ohio State:

• SE50 | Nate Oliver | Ohio State Buckeyes and Life After Football
• SE26 | James Cotton | A Buckeye Transitioning in Sports, Life, and Business
• SE19 | Chimdi Chekwa | Ohio State Buckeye For Real
• ClutchTimeout | Thad Matta | Championship Culture Stories
• Sports Media Wants Your Clicks—Especially YOU, Buckeye Fans
• Sports Bring People Together

Let’s Connect:

• Eric Kasimov: Twitter, LinkedIn
• Nate Oliver: Instagram | KBK Social Entrepreneurship Program

That’s a wrap:

• Thank you for listening to this SportsMatterz episode on SportsE+ titled, “BUCKEYE FOCUSED 1 | Notre Dame vs Ohio State Preview, Expectations of Jim Knowles’ Defense, and Twitter Warrior of the Week with Buckeye, Nate Oliver”.
• Follow this podcast on Apple Podcasts
• Follow this podcast on Spotify
• Intro Music, “escape” was provided by Pluto Tracks.
• Check out more from our content platform: SportsE+. ...