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Andy Geiger- Retired Athletic Director (Merged all relevant threads)

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Shit man, you've got to have balls of steel to perform that job. And a little arrogrance doesn't hurt. Don't forget that AG IS a very important figure in college sports. And the next AD will be important as well.


And many of the media types that call him arrogant are typical pussies. They are little rats scurrying around looking for scraps of info and will just invent it if necessary. There's no News in sports anymore...just Entertainment.


BTW...no offense to any real reporters.
 
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ESPN radio is running with this like crazy!!

The guy in for Dan Patrick (Eric Asilias (?)) is saying "Does this change your opinion of Maurice Clarett? It does mine!"

Some other tidbits from ESPN:
"If your paying people, your probably not going to start with the back up quarterback. I have to believe there are some other people on that payroll."

"I spoke with Tom Friend at length and he believes that Maurice Clarett is credible. He did everything he could to trip up Clarett and he never changed his story."

"Is Tressel next?"

"When the story came out, Ohio State didn't deny it, they SQUASHED it. We run a clean program they said! Then the main allegation against Ohio State comes true when their quarterback is found to have taken money from a booster."

Hate to say it folks, but this falls on Troy Smith's head. This story would have been over if he had not taken that money. He should probably transfer now.
 
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end of june he is leaving and staying around as an advisor after that...


and i hate to say this.....but i am getting vibes that more shit is going to hit the fan soon in regards to football.....but no verification yet....i have several major media people trying to find out more for us....

at this point it is simply rumor.....
 
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Tell me where Geiger's name was dragged through the mud. Was he accused of being a drug addict? A wife beater? A gambler? Nope. The media just was saying that Geiger wasn't doing a good job and at worse, was a cheater. Oh my god..a person of power and prestige being accused of not doing a good job. Haven't heard that one before.
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You may not have said that AG's name was dragged through the mud, but that's exactly what happened- maybe you don't recognize it. He is in charge of the athletic dept. at OSU, and the media took the dept. to task, using words like "dirty", "cheating", "out of control", etc. By implying that the athletic dept. (his responsibility) is bad, you imply the same for him.
 
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this may be interesting to y'all.....i just got an email from a very, very, very high-up national sports reporter that everyone knows....it started with...

"so the arrogant ad finally gets his."
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And that's what it's really been about from the start IMO . . . Of course, "arrogance" to your average or even your more successful than average sportswriter really just means a combination of power, competence, integrity, and impatience with fools embodied in one person. Andy's PR judgment in not better disguising his contempt for these sorry little media jock-wannabes, Mo C, and to a far lesser extent Coach Cooper can certainly be questioned, but I'm not surprised in the least at the e-mail you received. Besides, sportswriters love to indulge in the easy stereotype that OSU (or any big state school that's a traditional football power) is just a jock factory and get very upset at the perceived (by them) "hypocrisy" of a guy like AG publically prioritizing academics as a "dummy" school like OSU.

AG, by virtue of his lifetime of accomplishments, earned the right to be a little arrogant. What the hell's the average sportwriter's excuse?
 
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to take off the s&g glasses and be devil's advocate.....

arrogance can also refer to his approach to this entire moc fiasco for two years....unwilling to believe that anything bad can be happening on his watch...only to backtrack later with astonishment when he finds out that is wrong...
 
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Andy Geiger is a giant in the world of intercollegiate athletics. He is one of the all-time great ADs at Ohio State or anywhere else. And, he is a class act--a man of true integrity.

The fact that many will question his integrity based on the timing of his retirement and the on-going smear campaign is unfortunate, but in some sense, it goes with the territory. I had an uncle who was AD at Ohio State once upon a time. It is no exageration to say that the job killed him. Geiger spoke at his funeral. Like Geiger, he loved sports of all kinds, he loved working with the coaches and student-athletes to build the best program possible, and he enjoyed working with his colleagues in the Big Ten and the NCAA. What he hated, and what ultimately drove him out, was the booster mentality. It's an awful tension. You're utterly dependent on the boosters to fund your program. But you have no way to know who you can trust. Who is a true supporter versus who is just trying to buy improper access and influence. To a lesser extent, he also hated dealing with the media--but the media was less cut throat in those days. I can see in Geiger's eyes what I once saw in my uncle's eyes. He's just tired of it. It's just that simple. My uncle probably waited too long to get out (for his own good). I'm glad that Geiger knows, for himself, when it's time to go.

As to his replacement, I have no names to offer. But please, not Archie. I love Archie as much as the rest of you, and he is the greatest ambassador Ohio State could have. But the job would kill him. You've got to be tough as nails and have a bit of a mean streak. Archie is tough, but he's not mean. You've got to be a bit arrogant. Archie is humble. The new AD will have to be JT's buffer. Not so much to protect him from the President, the Trustees, or the Faculty (I think they all really do respect what JT has been accomplishing), but rather to protect JT from being swallowed up by the external community (the boosters, the media, etc).

Congratulations to Andy Geiger on an outstanding career. Many, many thanks for what you have done for Ohio State athletics and intercollegiate athletics. And thank you, above all, for being an honest man.

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