(Dan Wetzel: Yahoo Sports)
"Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee's entire existence
is centered on money (raising and spending) and attention (drawing it in
from adoring crowds and dishing it out on wealthy alums). There is
little else.
....The man craves attention and through the years has proven he'll
pretty much say or insult anything and anyone (including himself) if he
thinks it might get an extra chuckle, especially if that might one day
lead to an extra donation or positive word in the media.
...It's why seemingly half the schools in America have
hired him, including Ohio State, twice. And it's why he'll almost
assuredly keep his job despite his latest wild comments – that ranged
from "joking" about "damn Catholics", illiterate Southerners, the
sub-standard "integrity" of universities in Kentucky and even the
hard-wired greed of Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany.
The comments weren't what you'd normally consider the material of a
university president, but when did that ever matter with Gee?.....The man craves attention and through the years has proven he'll pretty much say or insult anything and anyone (including himself) if he thinks it might get an extra chuckle, especially if that might one day lead to an extra donation or positive word in the media.
"The comments I made were just plain wrong," Gee told the Associated Press after a tape of him speaking to the OSU athletic counsel in December materialized. He'd already been called in front of the school's trustees in January and given a "remediation plan" as penance."
"In no way do they reflect what the university stands for," Gee said. "They were a poor attempt at humor and entirely inappropriate."
...No doubt some will be offended. Some won't. Feel as you wish. Unless there is a groundswell of anger that threatens E. Gordon Gee's ability to raise money for Ohio State, he won't be replaced. That's the way the world works."
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