OSU prez Gordon Gee is an embarrassment [LOCKED]
Gordon Gee's greatest hits from the AP. Gee riffs on ND, Catholics, Polish, SEC, Kentucky, Louisville, and the Little Sisters of the Poor:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/apnewsbreak-osu-head-jabs-notre-dame-catholics
Mod edit: Grumble, grumble, nice things, grumble. JGB.
I'm not embarassed by him at all. Keep doing what you are doing, Mr. Gee.
inspires you in the same way that WWE does? You don't want to put yourself in the position of defending someone who is so miserably uninspired for political reasons, right? (Left? Center?) That's a miserable trap to climb in.
In all fairness, the leaders of the Catholic church do engage in an excessvie amount of child rape. So there's that.
Wow that was off the cuff
Not really. He's talking about negotiating with Catholic preists, and how they can't be trusted. I certainly can't fault him for those comments given some of the things that institution has been caught doing in recent decades.
Seriously? I guess we should stop negotiating with B1G football teams after Penn State.
Just stop.
Yeah, I feel the same way when I sit next to Muslims on the plane.
Because if some members of a group are bad, they all are!
~Herm
While a university president should have the foresight to guard his tongue in public comments, let's not compare members of a group to leaders of a group. Personally, I wouldn't hold child rape against the next Catholic I sit next to on a plane, but I sure do hold it against the Pope (at least the last one), the Vatican and Catholic leaders around the globe.
You can't just permit (and facilitate) global child rape for decades and then get a thin skin. As horrible as the Sandusky rapes are, Penn State is a nothing compared to the Vatican. If the Church can't take a little ribbing, maybe it should've done something about all the children it allowed to be raped.
Oh please, if Gee had mocked anyone except for Christians and southerners, this wouldn't be taken as a joke. Imagine the same quote with Jews or African-Americans, he would be fighting for his job at this very moment. Though he's at risk too, because Mormons don't seem to have given the "protected minority" status. Regarding your statement... what? He was directly mocking CatholicS, not the church. And the SEC comment... geez, ohio isn't exactly Harvard there Gordon... lots of flat-bill wearers down in your neck of the woods.
I find myself agreeing with Herm today so you know its an off day for one of us . . .
I'm pretty sure the Schottensteins would frown upon Jewish jokes too! I'm not as offended by his comments as I am by his attitude. Gee seems to think you can make fun of whoever "Buckeye Nation" sees as less than themselves and then just say sorry if you get called out for it. Are we supposed to really believe that he is sorry or that he is not representing the overall attitude of the university when he continues making comments like this? At some point, either shut your mouth or quit apologizing!
Why do you keep going back to "if it were Jews or blacks"? That has nothing to do with anything. Yeshiva doesn't field a football team with an NBC contract. Howard isn't negotiating with the ACC.
Gee made some dumb jokes when he should've spoken like a university president. That was about it. He goofed on the priests at ND (not "Catholics" as a whole) for, essentially, being tough to deal with. We are talking about the same ND that weaseled out of the Michigan contract just before kickoff, right? Maybe he had a point.
Anyway, I'm not defending Gee. He shouldn't have made the comments, but maybe save the outrage for something that matters.
Apparently criticizing the Catholic church for forcibly raping a bunch of little kids then covering it up is also taboo. And ordinary (non-church-leader) Catholics aren't off the hook either. Anyone who continues to willingly associate with that institution after what they've done deserves whatever criticism comes to them.
So what about Catholics who became Catholics after the priest scandals or say Catholic children? My nephew was just confirmed so I want to make sure it's ok if I hang out with him.
Do you direct this kind of hate speech at, say, German people?
Holy shit, you are so fucking stupid.
thinking of their AD. Smith I believe his name is. Gee is their president. He's white and enjoys bowties.
if it isn't Shinehead Fitzpatrick.
According the DOJ, the majority of murders to white people are at the hands of black people. I guess "those damn blacks can't be trusted".
where this kind of post is within their rules, correct? Either way, it's not appropriate for this Michigan sports blog. Return flight is in one month.
FUCK YOU!
Garbage.
as a catholic I don't support the fucking of anyone... either way...
love you,
jdon
Sure lets make fun of a religion of over a Billion people nobody will notice...
constitutes "excessive"? I'd think one but maybe you have a different idea.
Well the above conversation is just peachy. Glad we could have that discussion
This is a Michigan blog.
We have a winner.
It's probably not news to many on this board, but Urban Meyer professes to be a devout Roman Catholic. I wonder whether he was taken aback by Gee's comments.
Gordon Gee for Governor of Ohio.
[Insert joke about 'blue' vs 'red' state here]
Oh man, this story would have been much juicier had Notre Dame been a historically black college or Yeshiva. Notre Dame's mascot is a brawling, drunk Irish midget, I think they've embraced even the harshest of Catholic stereotypes.
~Herm?
I'm still not sure I see what terrible things Gee said about Catholics. Stupid comments to make for a University president? Yes. Terribly offensive? No.
The Howard/Yeshiva comparison? Huh?
he wears a bow tie
From the article:
"The fathers are holy on Sunday, and they're holy hell on the rest of the week," Gee said to laughter at the Dec. 5 meeting attended by Athletic Director Gene Smith and several other athletic department members, along with professors and students.
and:
"You just can't trust those damn Catholics on a Thursday or a Friday, and so, literally, I can say that," said Gee, a Mormon.
What an assclown. Incredible.
Does this mean their series against the Little Sisters of the Poor isn't going to happen now?
The comments about Catholics are something I could brush off as a lame attempt at humor, particularly if he has had friendly relations with the leaders of Notre Dame.
It's calling out a school like Louisville as being academically ineligible to join the Big Ten, or saying SEC schools can't read or write, that I think is super problematic. We all know there are some academic differences among schools--it's in poor taste for a University President to bring it up in this particular way.
As a Catholic Michigan fan, this is just one more reason to hate Ohio.
me too, but i stopped "being catholic" the day i was old and confident enough to tell my mother 'no' on a sunday morning.
because I "became Catholic" the day I was confident enough to say I wanted to go to church without anyone forcing me to do so.