Land-grant Holy Land: For Ohio State Buckeyes Fans

On today’s episode of “Buck Off with Christopher Renne,” I’m joined by Jordan Williams to discuss the unfortunate scandal that embroiled the college football world this past week. To get the show started, we discuss the turn of the calendar to July and what that means for the future show content moving forward. NFL players are reporting next week, so now it is getting down to the business side of the offseason before Ohio State plays football again. After that, we turn our attention to a tough conversation about the institutional failures surrounding Northwestern’s football team and athletic department. In this talk, we get into how Northwestern’s leadership failed and the culture of hazing was built over a long period time. This was not a recent story, and highlights the greater issues of power dynamics as well as institutional failures in college sports. On the other side of the break we switch our focus to a lighter set of conversations with Ohio State football recruiting. We talk about the recent run of r