Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

More guests this week on Buckeye Talk as Nathan Baird and Stephen Means sit down -- virtually -- with 2022 Buckeye linebacker commits CJ Hicks and Dasan McCullough. Hicks and McCullough have developed a close friendship despite having not yet met in person. They discuss how that happened, their approach to recruiting more players for the still-early 2022 class and their impressions of linebackers...

On this Buckeye Talk episode from cleveland.com, Doug Lesmerises is joined by Ralph Russo, the national college football writer for the Associated Press. They discussed whether other leagues will be able to play college football this fall; whether a January plan for the Big Ten will work; if Ohio State will have any negative long-term effects for not playing this fall; how AP poll voting will work...

The NCAA granted a free year of eligibility to fall sports athletes for 2021, meaning seniors now could come back as seniors next season. How will that work? What decisions might the Ohio State football program and the Buckeyes players face as a result? While things remain up in the air for this season, on this big Wednesday Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephe...

Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means of cleveland.com look at the Associated Press preseason top 25 rankings released Monday and talk about how many Buckeyes should make the preseason All-American team. Nathan is a voter on both of them. Then came a breakdown of winter football (led by the Big Ten and Pac-12) and fall football (with the SEC, ACC and Big 12 still planning to play). How d...

Will the Big Ten Conference pull off a football season in the winter or spring? If so, will Ohio State's best players participate? With so much uncertainty in the air, the Buckeye Talk crew at cleveland.com puts their names on predictions for whatever season might unfold after the first of the year. Perhaps more intriguingly, they gauged the interest of their Buckeye Talk text subscribers -- hence...

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The Big Ten will not play football this fall, and does that mean Justin Fields will never play football for Ohio State again? If so, he left a fleeting glimpse of a growing leadership presence with his national media appearances over the past week. Will that enhance his legacy at Ohio State, or does it become one more tantalizing "what if" for Buckeye fans to mourn into the offseason? Doug Lesmeri...

Ohio State player and parent-led initiatives to convince the Big Ten to reconsider its cancellation of the fall football season began as soon as the announcement came down a week ago last Tuesday. Prior to early Wednesday evening, the Big Ten had not responded to those concerns. When Commissioner Kevin Warren broke his silence with an open letter the Big Ten Community, he emphasized that the decis...

Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means are back for the big Wednesday Buckeye Talk as the Big Ten and Ohio State continue to attempt to figure out the next step for football. The guys talked about: Randy Wade's planned visit to Chicago, as the father of OSU cornerback Shaun Wade hopes to organize a Friday protest Ohio allowing high school football to continue while the Buckeyes aren't pla...

For this Buckeye Talk episode from cleveland.com, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen offered some advice and asked for some help. First, the guys addressed how the Big Ten and commissioner Kevin Warren have handled the last week since the announcement that fall football was canceled for this conference. It ... hasn't been great. But what should Warren do about it now? They had answers. But...

Barring a reversal from the Big Ten Conference, we can no longer predict whether Ohio State would have won a national championship in fall 2020. However, we can debate what would have happened if the season had been allowed to play out without the influence of the coronavirus pandemic. So that's what Nathan Baird, Doug Lesmerises and Stephen Means did on their usual Monday edition of the daily pod...

An unexpected bonus episode of Buckeye Talk, as a planned interview with the parents of two highly-rated Ohio State freshmen about what's happening in the OSU football program after the cancellation of fall football in the Big Ten, turned into a pod opportunity. On this Sunday episode, Doug Lesmerises talks with Monica Johnson, the mother of offensive tackle Paris Johnson, and Gee Scott Sr., the f...

The plan for this Saturday pod was to finally get out to listeners a great interview with film breakdown analyst Diante Lee, a California high school coach who last month offered a great view of Ohio State's single-high safety defensive plan from last year. Lee's breakdown caught the eye of Doug Lesmerises, and their interview was ready to go -- and then the Big Ten football season started to crum...

It's a live Buckeye Talk episode for this Friday, as Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means try something new. Instead of taking questions from their text subscribers over text, the guys welcomed those subscribers onto a live Zoom call and let them fire away with questions. It'll give you a break from only hearing the voices of Doug, Nathan and Stephen; give you a look at what other Ohio...

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Is there reason to hope that Ohio State football could still have a meaningful football season that includes it's best, NFL-bound players? Ohio State coach Ryan Day thinks so. On this Wednesday Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means run through the plan that Day unveiled on a Zoom call with reporters Wednesday. What does it entail? Would Justin Fields be a...

The Big Ten Conference on Tuesday canceled football for the fall. Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means discuss the historic decision and what it means for Ohio State football, and they read the texts of anguished subscribers. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com on this day no one will forget. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about...

Well, that was something. On this Tuesday Buckeye Talk episode from cleveland.com, Nathan Baird, Doug Lesmerises and Stephen Means run through the entire crazy Monday in Big Ten football, which started with thinking the season was over, and which ended with what coaches and players want maybe affecting the decisions of conference presidents. You lived it. It was nuts. So buckle up and let Nathan,...

We're back for another Mark It Down Monday, as cleveland.com's Buckeye Talk crew debates how many Big Ten games Ohio State will win this season and which opponent is most likely to spring an upset. But first -- will there be a season at all? That question never seems to go away due to the coronavirus pandemic. Nathan Baird, Doug Lesmerises and Stephen Means discuss the events of the weekend, when...

On this Friday Buckeye Talk episode from cleveland.com, Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird continue to react to what's happening in college football and how it affects the Ohio State Buckeyes. At some point soon, they'll get back to episodes with specific themes, but for now, the news come fast and furious. First, Doug and Nathan dive into the three major Big Ten opt-outs. The three best non-Buckeye...

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On this Buckeye Talk Thursday episode from cleveland.com, Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird discuss a report from Bucknuts about what happened between Ryan Day and Jim Harbaugh on a Big Ten coaches call, what Day told the Buckeyes about it, and what it might mean for the Ohio State-Michigan game on Oct. 24. Just listen to understand what they're talking about. Plus, Ohio State held its first presea...

It's the big Wednesday episode, and there's a lot of news to discuss after a barren offseason. The Big Ten announced the new 10-game schedule for conference teams on Wednesday, and Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird went through every aspect of it. First, Doug grilled Nathan on the Ohio State-Michigan game moving to Oct. 24, and whether that's a good thing or not. Then, Doug and Nathan welcomed in P...

On this extra Tuesday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird talk about Ohio State football's seven new captains, and what the Buckeyes had to say about the 2020 football season. On Tuesday, reporters spoke to OSU players for the first time in 11 weeks, as Justin Fields, Wyatt Davis, Josh Myers, Shaun Wade, Tuf Borland, Jonathon Cooper and Justin Hilliard were elected by their teammates an...

On this Tuesday Buckeye Talk episode from cleveland.com, Nathan Baird and Doug Lesmerises do football for half the podcast and food for half the podcast. Football: Could the Big Ten move the season up to Aug. 29? Could Jameson Williams emerge as a major threat at receiver? Who are true freshmen who could potentially break out? When should the Ohio State-Michigan game be scheduled? Food: Discontinu...