I'm exceedingly happy with this. I said the day Slapshot flew away that internally hiring a pure academic was the best we could hope for. I had some dark thoughts about how a protracted external search might play out with our current board, Wexner and possibly the legislature getting involved. I'm happy and hope as someone noted above that he can manage the politics currently involved and focus on putting the university back on the track it was on before Slapshot. Since the board obviously quickly moved on that, perhaps they deserve more credit than I've been willing to give them.
Things I'd like to see are lowering the size of the freshman class to under 8K and building a fucking hockey rink for the women. And put Gee out to fucking pasture at long last or at the very least severely limit his role to nothing more than being your Wexner whisperer.
