I don’t know much about gene smith other than he’s the osu ad, but I thought he brought up some really good points."One of the issues that has been challenging for a number of our schools is a student-athlete can go through four years and never play at a certain place, so I want to see if there's a way to fix that."
Gene Smith, OSU AD
Ohio State's Gene Smith Expects Big Ten To Stick With Nine Conference Games Rather Than Schedule ACC, Pac-12 Matchups
The Buckeyes already have several marquee non-conference games scheduled, including future series with Notre Dame, Washington, Texas, Alabama, Georgia and Oregon.www.si.com
The alliance scheduling is dead as far as the Big Ten is concerned and probably getting rid of divisions sooner rather than later.