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13 years 9 months ago #36114 by Buc
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Maybe the paragraph below creates a clearer picture of President Gordon Gee. Follow the money.


Gee, in his second stint as president of Ohio State in addition to being in charge at West Virginia, Colorado, Vanderbilt and Brown, has been a rainmaker for the university, bringing in large donors and large contributions. It's the biggest reason why the energetic man in the trademark bow tie is the highest-paid Division I university president in the country at around $1.2 million.

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13 years 9 months ago #36115 by dapolla
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The comparisons to the SMU of the '80s are not out of bounds. When the Clarett thing broke in 2004, I expected the NCAA to slap a "lack of institutional control" label on tOSU, but they got slaps on the wrist and Tressel wasn't seriously investigated. The thing is, the Clarett thing broke, and then people started talking in hushed voices about the basketball program, who was about to build a strong enough team to lose to Florida in the tourney finals.

The point is, OSU keeps getting told to stop, and they keep breaking the rules anyway. They think they'll never get the death penalty because they're too high-profile a school. They forget the bought teams of the '80s for SMU, the #2 undefeated team in 1982 who probably should have played Georgia for the national title, the class that won three of four SWC titles over the likes of Texas and Arkansas, the SMU who could recruit nationally and was nearly brought down by a player from outside Pittsburgh. People keep forgetting that SMU voluntarily shut down football operations in 1988; the NCAA could have shut them down for two years but elected to do so for only one. That second year probably set them back farther than the first year did.

Ohio State will not, I think, get slapped with a violation of the Repeat Offender Rule. Do they deserve the Death Penalty? Absolutely. They keep getting caught with their hands in the cookie jar this decade; it's time to slam it shut.

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13 years 9 months ago #36117 by Buc
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Glad to see your return to the board dapolla. Truth is, facts speak for themselves and it is more than curious that OSU has been allowed freedoms that others are not.

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13 years 9 months ago #36118 by wlayton
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After reading that article, I believe Tressel's parents should have named him "Ostrich".

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13 years 9 months ago #36119 by Buc
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wlayton wrote:

After reading that article, I believe Tressel's parents should have named him "Ostrich".


Tried that old head in the sand trick again, this time it did not work wlayton.

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13 years 9 months ago #36120 by wlayton
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Buc wrote:

wlayton wrote:

After reading that article, I believe Tressel's parents should have named him "Ostrich".


Tried that old head in the sand trick again, this time it did not work wlayton.



Nope.

Geez, some weekly unemployement #'s just came out.......looked as though they were inflated by ONE.

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