The Lantern's Sports Podcast

In the latest edition of the Lantern Sports podcast, former Ohio State basketball walk-on, leader of the towel gang, and now host of the Drive The Lane podcast, Joey Lane joins the show to talk about this year’s team and how it stacks up to teams in the past.

On the latest episode of the Lantern Sports Podcast, we dive into the NFL draft decisions of more than 20 players on the Ohio State football team.

From Justin Fields to Chris Olave, we break down what the future holds for those who have chosen to stay and the shoes that must be filled for those who have moved on.

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Urban Meyer had a simple objective when he took on the head coaching duties at Ohio State.

However, setting a goal and achieving it are two different things. Despite creating lofty goals in his introductory press conference, Meyer would lead a resurgence of the Ohio State football program, but his journey would not be without turbulence.

“Our objective is simple: It's to make the state of Ohio proud; recruit student‑athletes that will win in the classroom and win on the field,” Meyer said Nov. 28, 2011. “I'm going to go about and try to assemble the best coaching staff in college football. Our goal is to compete and win Big Ten championships.”

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Ohio State will have to wait at least another week to get to 4-0.

The Saturday game against Maryland has been canceled after the Terrapins paused football activities due to an outbreak of cases. The game will not be rescheduled.

“The health, safety and well-being of our student-athletes is our main concern,” head coach Ryan Day said in a release. “Obviously, we are disappointed at not being able to compete this week, but I am incredibly proud of our team and the way they have handled themselves throughout this entire pandemic.”

Big Ten rules establish that a team will be eligible for the Big Ten Championship if a team has participated in at least six games.

Ohio State is set to host No. 10 Indiana Nov. 21.

On the latest episode of the Lantern Sports Podcast, we dive into how Ohio State’s self-supporting status affects the budget deficit they face during the 2021 fiscal year.

The department is still expecting $73 million in revenue for the 2021 fiscal year, not including any media rights revenue that could come as well. We breakdown where that money comes from and just how much money athletics could save from media deals.

We also take a look at furloughs, pay cuts, the possibility of an internal loan for athletics, and whether or not Ohio State Athletics may stray away from its self-sufficiency in the future.

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The Lantern Sports podcast welcomed Ohio State football historian Jack Park to discuss his top five greatest single-game performances in Buckeye history.

Park provides extensive insight and a flash to the past to recall the most legendary performances in Ohio State’s 130 years of football.

And with the Big Ten season starting back up, more legendary performances may be in store in 2020.

You can follow Park’s work and find his books on his website: jackpark.com.

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The Lantern Sports Podcast welcomed Trevon D. Logan, a professor of economics at Ohio State, on this week’s episode to discuss how Ohio State athletics could face changes as the program faces its largest economic deficit in recent history.

The Big Ten released the full conference schedule July 30, laying out 10 games for Ohio State, which included moving the usual season finale against Michigan up by a month.

The season kicks off Sept. 3 at Illinois. In this episode, we highlight the biggest takeaways from the release including a tough October stretch, the Oct. 24 matchup vs. Michigan and the potential timing for games as current times are to be determined. 

While the Big Ten hopes the season runs smoothly with no game cancellations, we dive into the implemented “flex time zone” and why the idea is integral for the conference’s hopes of finishing a full season.

Although the Big Ten is operating as if college athletics will be played, players in the conference followed suit of players in the Pac-12 conference in unifying to demand better safety protocols amid COVID-19. We discuss the necessity of these unifying groups as safety and thorough protocols should be paramount to the NCAA. 

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Ohio State athletics has announced its plan to fill 20 percent of Ohio Stadium if college football is played this fall.

The pressing question for Buckeye fans is who gets a shot at the 20,988 available tickets? Should all tickets go to the students, non-student fans or an even split?

We survey the best options from fairness, economic and safety standpoints as athletic revenue is already looking at a large deficit in 2020.

As one of the only universities to publicly announce its attendance plans, we discuss the potential issues for home-field advantage and whether consistency should be paramount for the Big Ten regarding stadium capacity.

There are plenty of complications and questions regarding this decision, but we clear things up and navigate the best avenues for Ohio State here in the latest episode of the Lantern Sports Podcast.

Laura Pappano, a freelance journalist for The New York Times, The Hechinger Report and The Women’s Review of Books joins hosts Kevin Lapka and Curtis Grube in the latest episode of the Lantern Sports Podcast.

As decisions on the fall sports season hang in the balance, this episode provides strong insight and understanding of the economic impact for college athletics in 2020 and beyond.

Conferences and universities across the country, including the Big Ten, have made changes to their fall sports seasons. Pappano evaluates the economic significance of a conference-only schedule for the Big Ten and what’s at stake for smaller schools who collect less revenue from athletics than Ohio State.

Whether sports are played at some capacity or they’re cancelled altogether, Pappano stresses the financial importance of students returning to campus and how that may be the most important factor in determining the economic stability of a fall sports season.

The 2020 sports season is going to look drastically different one way or the other, but we also discuss how the economic scenarios of 2020 may affect sports when they return in full in 2021.

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