OSU's President hopes Tressel doesn't fire him
According to Mark Schlabach's article on espn.com, OSU president Gordon Gee admitted where the real power lies in Columbus:
Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee said he never considered firing Tressel.
"No, are you kidding me?" Gee said. "Let me be very clear. I'm just hoping the coach doesn't dismiss me."
Gee was the president of my undergraduate school (not OSU) for a few years after I graduated, and I learned a little about him through the alumni magazine. Principally, he's kind of a weasel, which makes him a perfect fit for OSU. In addition, he likes to think of himself as kind of clever and cavalier (hence those stupid bow ties). So I'm sure he would say that his remark was just in jest. I think it's closer to the bone than he'd like to admit.
Here's a link to the article.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/columns/story?columnist=schlabach_mark&id…
Not to be that guy, but this quote has been touched on, on basically every one of the OMG Tresselgate threads listed on the past 2-3 pages of the board..
That would be bad news for Mr Jones, given that he has a made a business out of of convincing other people to wear bow-ties.
Yea, and I also think this is the smallest of all the big deals in this story. I mean, I think you can take it as him trying to make light of a serious situation. Maybe he shouldn't have done it, but that's probably all it is.
I'd feel bad if I repeated a thread topic, but not for having touched on a subject raised in a reply to a thread topic. I have not read every post to every one of the numerous Tressel threads.
If the mods want to take this down, go right ahead.
The rules are gray.
2-game suspension for you.
If you are referring to Vanderbilt (my graduate school), it took years for tha athletic prgram to recover (as much as Vanderbilt could) from his disastrous leadsership. Weasel is a good description.
Dude straight crushed it at Vandy aside from sports though. Faculty and students loved him, increased applications and SAT scores, and raised a billion dollars for the endowment. And his wife smoked doobies in the presidents house. He might be a little bit of a weasel, but nobody can argue with the results.
I have a feeling we will not be seeing Gordon Gee's Hot Wife posting any time soon.
Speaking of the marijuana...it relates to her having Miniere's Disease.
http://www.insidevandy.com/drupal/node/905
is where I went for undergrad. His tenure as president was pretty undistinguished, and he kind of pulled a Colts-to-Indianapolis move in leaving Brown for Vanderbilt. That's no reflection on Vandy, but it is a reflection on Gee.
The point of my post is that Gee has a long track record of being a weasel and of not standing up to do the right thing. I wasn't simply flogging the quotation. Maybe I should have made my main point more emphatic.
I guess this is what happens when you go to an undergrad school that doesn't have any curricular requirements and that allows students to take every class pass/fail.
Brown joke:
Why don't Brown students drop acid?
Because they can take it pass/fail.
why did he go from Brown to Vandy to OSU? Doesn't seem like a logical path to me.
He was promoted to his level of incompetence, and now has returned to a school of the appropriate prestige level. I'm kind of surprised OSU took him back.
I'm pretty sure everyone here is aware of the presser that happened last night.
Gordon Gee is perhaps the most annoying university president I've ever seen/heard/experienced. I don't know how someone like that becomes a university president. He's like Jeremy Piven from "Old School", except more of a tool.
I thought Gordon Gee was an arrogant asshat prior to the press conference last night; the way in which they handled the situation and Gee's presence was really terrible from a PR perspective. The outcomes for tUofOSU will be significant though probably not felt for a while. Certainly, thumbing your nose at the NCAA like that can only serve to negatively impact the rather beleaguered NCAA investigators. These are the same guys who got killed in the media on the Cam Newton deal and a few weeks later on tatoogate version 1.0. Eventually the NCAA has to either stand up and enforce or in the inimitable words of Nascar's Bill France tell the schools to "have at it boys".
The second issue here would be that the mainstream media, particularly ESPN, who has been roasting tUofOSU all morning on radio for that farce last evening is not in any way beholden to the Big Ten as it is financially to the SEC. Prepare for this story to have some legs and/or an expose book. There would be some money in looking at tUofOSU over the past decade. My sense is that people would likely have been willing to forgive a contrite Jim Tressel had tUofOSU actually given him a year off. The problem was that Tressel was hardly contrite and E. Gordon Gee carried himself with an air of Montgomery Burns. The terrible spin will come back to haunt tUofOSU; one wonders who the hell is responsible for the PR down there.
I would be mortified and clamor for her to be fired.
Gee's comments are disgraceful. You're the University PRESIDENT for Christ's sake!
Can you imagine being a professor at OSU right now? Your school is a joke!
FIRE TRESS ROD
As I watched Gee last night, whom I thought was dressed as if he were a circus ringmaster, I thought to myself just how lucky we are to have Mary Sue Coleman as our president.
Coleman/Brandon vs Gee/Smith. Really tells an interesting tale.
Gee's quote was literally the most embarrassing public statement I've heard in years -- in this sport, anyway. And it goes to everything that is wrong with the sport. If I were a trustee of that "school," I'd call for Gee's head. What kind of example is he setting for his student-body?
This is the same man who said, after the 1992 game, "This tie is one of our greatest wins ever!" Fascinating guy.