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Ohio State Football Insider: Big Changes Coming To The Home Of The Buckeyes · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, July fifth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: All right, on today's show, You've heard a lot from
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State Athletic Director Ross by York over the last
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  Speaker 1: few days. To get to hear them again. Today's show
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  Speaker 1: focuses on the changes that are coming to the Woody
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  Speaker 1: Hayes Athletic Center. The practice facility for the football team
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  Speaker 1: is getting a one hundred and twenty five million dollars makeover.
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  Speaker 1: So here's just some general thoughts from Ross on the
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  Speaker 1: changes that are coming to the Woody Hayes Athletic Center.
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  Speaker 2: The location will stay in the same footprint, right, so
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  Speaker 2: really what we're looking at is the existing building that
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  Speaker 2: is on the north side of the building. Right the offices,
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  Speaker 2: the team meeting rooms, the coaches conference rooms, coach Day's office,
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  Speaker 2: the locker room, the training room. What we want to
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  Speaker 2: do is we want to expand the locker room, expand
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  Speaker 2: the training room, develop a bigger team meeting room in
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  Speaker 2: some place within that structure. Right now, not everyone can
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  Speaker 2: fit in the team meeting room when we have a
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  Speaker 2: team meeting. Right the individual position rooms are in the
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  Speaker 2: same place as a coach's office. So if Tyler Bowen
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  Speaker 2: needs to have a private meeting and somebody wants an
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  Speaker 2: offensive lineman wants to watch film, somebody has to leave.
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  Speaker 2: So a new office complex, a new weight room would
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  Speaker 2: be part of new construction. The rest would be really
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  Speaker 2: a total renovation of that building. The location is great
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  Speaker 2: and we don't want to lose that opportunity of that location.
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  Speaker 2: But new construction will be part of it. But then
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  Speaker 2: a total renovation timeline. We've raised some money on it.
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  Speaker 2: But that's that's why we need some public visibility. We
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  Speaker 2: need to get it out in the public. We need
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  Speaker 2: to let people know and then we can once we
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  Speaker 2: have that, we can really map out of time. It's
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  Speaker 2: not it's not a short turnaround time. You have to
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  Speaker 2: design it, you have to go out to bid, you've
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  Speaker 2: got all the approvals, so we're probably still you know,
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  Speaker 2: eighteen months or so from breaking ground, but we've got
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  Speaker 2: to get the process activated to get the approval started,
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  Speaker 2: so then we can really put the design you know,
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  Speaker 2: in place to have the right building.
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  Speaker 1: So when you've got a one hundred and twenty five
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  Speaker 1: million dollar construction project, that is not something you can
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  Speaker 1: just throw together overnight. So what are they looking at
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  Speaker 1: in terms of logistics, timelines, and next steps for that
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  Speaker 1: Woody Hayes Athletic Center construction project.
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  Speaker 2: To me, the biggest thing is, we just have to go.
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  Speaker 2: It's time to go. You know, we've talked about it.
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  Speaker 2: We've again we've sort of been in this triage mode
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  Speaker 2: of adapting to NIL, adapting you know, budgets, adapting to
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  Speaker 2: We we added scholarships, you know, making sure that we
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  Speaker 2: we keep thirty six sports. We just need to go.
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  Speaker 2: And we've had donors that have stepped up. There have
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  Speaker 2: been donors who have committed to that project. But we
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  Speaker 2: need to spread that message out to more people. We
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  Speaker 2: need to make the you know, plans public. If you
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  Speaker 2: will the timeline public. So that's to me, we just
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  Speaker 2: have to go. We have to put our foot on
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  Speaker 2: base and we've got to go. So there aren't challenges
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  Speaker 2: from a standpoint. I mean, we know what a construction
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  Speaker 2: calendar would look like. We know that you most likely
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  Speaker 2: have to if you want to do this as efficiently
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  Speaker 2: as possible, you have to move out of the building
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  Speaker 2: for most of those areas. So again, how do we
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  Speaker 2: stage that? Where do people go in the meantime? You
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  Speaker 2: know what if we're renovating the locker room and we're
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  Speaker 2: moving out, what does a temporary locker room look like?
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  Speaker 2: So there'll be some short term sort of pain along
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  Speaker 2: the way in logistics, but it frankly, for me, it's
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  Speaker 2: just time to go, like, we've got to get this
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  Speaker 2: thing off the ground. We've been talking about it long enough,
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  Speaker 2: and now's the time.
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  Speaker 1: With the house settlement and NIL deals now a permanent part.
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  Speaker 1: Probably we'll get into that a little later. Of college football,
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  Speaker 1: how do you balance if you're trying to run an
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  Speaker 1: athletic department getting fundraising for the NIL expense with providing
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  Speaker 1: for capital projects like the work they're doing at the stadium,
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  Speaker 1: with the potential building of an ice rink with the
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  Speaker 1: big Woody Hayes Athletic Center project, trying to go back
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  Speaker 1: to donors for both of those. Donor fatigue is a
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  Speaker 1: real thing in the nonprofit world. So this is actually
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  Speaker 1: a really interesting answer from Ross on the perspective on
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  Speaker 1: how fast things are changing on that front.
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  Speaker 2: Well, here's the thing. So, even since I've been here
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  Speaker 2: at Ohio State, you know, two plus years, we are
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  Speaker 2: on our third iteration of NIL in two and a
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  Speaker 2: half years, right, And so you know, the first year
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  Speaker 2: I was here, and this was happening before before I
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  Speaker 2: got here, it was you know, donor based, you know,
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  Speaker 2: give to collectives. Right. And then my first full year
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  Speaker 2: that I was here, it was sort of a hybrid, right.
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  Speaker 2: We had some sponsorship activation, we had money going through
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  Speaker 2: collectives that we helped raise. Right, it was sort of
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  Speaker 2: a hybrid. And then this year it's been revshare and
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  Speaker 2: third party NIL agreements and collectives not as much, right,
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  Speaker 2: donors giving not as much. They have to be a
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  Speaker 2: valid business, right, So in three years, So now I
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  Speaker 2: really believe that now we have a clear message to
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  Speaker 2: our donors to say this is what NIL is. And
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  Speaker 2: now we get back to sort of traditional fundraising, and
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  Speaker 2: then we have to expand that donor base. We really do,
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  Speaker 2: and our team has a really good plan, a really
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  Speaker 2: good roadmap to launch a lot of things separate from
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  Speaker 2: our campaign, but that's what we have to I believe
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  Speaker 2: now we finally have the clarity where I can look
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  Speaker 2: at a donor and say, these are the priorities. The
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  Speaker 2: last couple of years, it's been well, this is a
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  Speaker 2: priority a little bit, and this is a priority a
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  Speaker 2: little bit. Now again, now I think we can have
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  Speaker 2: a clear pathway.
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