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Article: OSU leader knows his football Buckeyes' AD got his start at Notre Dame
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- May 16, 2005
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Ohio State picked a Cleveland native and former Notre Dame
football player to be its eighth athletic director. Gene Smith, 49,
one of only nine black ADs in Division I-A (117 schools), has been on
the job four weeks. He was hired after a five-year stint at Arizona
State. Before that, he was AD at Iowa State and Eastern Michigan.
Smith has a base salary of $450,000 and can earn as much as $175,000
more through incentives. His wife, Sheila, a former Canadian Olympic
basketball player, also was hired by OSU in a fund-raising capacity
and will earn $165,000 annually. The son of an electrical contractor
and registered nurse, Smith was a freshman on Notre Dame's 1973
national championship team ...