My message to the OSU board of trustees
I'm sure this comes off as arrogant, but that's just what we are, right?
Dear Trustees:
You should all be embarrassed and mortified at Gordon Gee’s joke yesterday in the press conference held to divulge the transgressions of the University’s head football coach. It was not a time for levity. Worse, the joke itself laid bare what would seem to be fundamentally disordered values on your campus. The university from which I received my degree does not operate at the pleasure of the football coach. Is that the case at Ohio State?
As a Big Ten supporter, at least I know I’m embarrassed by this. What’s wrong with you people?
(MY name)
Oak Park, Illinois
University of Michigan, 1982
Just for some context, what do you hope to achieve by sending this message?
Well, Gee's joke just pissed me off. I had to get it off my chest. Nothing more than that really, other than hopefully an appeal to their sensibilities about what exactly is the purpose of their institution.
Edit: and no, of course I don't expect a reply.
Tressil dont run this, he cant fire Gee. Gee his boss. I bout 2 fire him
His hope? Perhaps nothing more than to have his voice heard on the topic. If he really sent it, then it has >0 impact than general internet rabble has. Always voice complaints to those that deserve to hear it.
You're wasting your pixels. Probably not one member of that Board batted an eye when Gee said that, more than a few of them probably did not think he was joking, and, upon hearing Gee's quip, probably just nodded and thought to themselves "he's 9-1 against Michigan so you got that much right, Gordo."
might be TP's biological father. Neither know when to keep their mouth shut.
you're wasting your time.
Here's my message to leftrare:
Dear idiot,
The post you created on March 9th, 2011 at 2:11 PM is an unmitigated embarrassement to your entire genetic lineage and every single person who has ever associated with you in any context, however briefly. As you so kindly provided your college graduation date in your in signature (lol), I estimate your age to be somewhere between 47 and 51. In more direct terms, I would like to point out that you are a fully grown, middle-aged man who took time out of his day to write an obnoxiously concieted, "Dear Santa" type letter to the board of trustees at Ohio State. Now, I certainly understand that one's mid-life brings about a variety of challenges to the ego. However, deal with those issues in the way that men have always dealt with those issues. That is, sign up for an account on Ashley Madison, or buy a Miata, or mail-order a fleshlight, or put some peanut butter on your balls and let the dog lick it off, or whatever. Today, you have lost the Internet and, for that, you win nothing. You should be ashamed, embarrassed, and hopelessly so.
Coach fires you!!
the only people the Trustees are going to listen to are the big ticket donors. If they stop sending those checks, Gee, Smith, and Tressel will get the boot, but I suspect the OSU donors care more about B1G championships and less about academic reputation. They are buckeyes after all.