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

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Clipped from osugrad21 post of David Kenner remarks:

"While I am certain that no one takes any joy in Mr. Geiger's sudden resignation, it, together with other recent events would cause one to finally view Maurice Clarett in a completely different and favorable light, as painful as that must be for Mr. Geiger to concede."
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"While I am certain that no one takes any joy in hearing anything that Atty. Kenner has to say, it is worth remembering that he is merely an advocate for his client; thus, any and all of his utterances are inherently biased."
 
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N.C.A.A. President Myles Brand said in a telephone interview yesterday that it would be "a mistake of the first order" to link Geiger's legacy with the recent problems at Ohio State. Geiger has been involved in college athletics since 1961 and served as the athletic director at Brown, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Stanford and Ohio State.

"Andy Geiger has a long and impressive history in college sports," Brand said. "He's contributed to the success of a number of individual programs, including Ohio State, and to the advancement of intercollegiate athletics as a whole."
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I just thought it was worth repeating the comments of Myles Brand, NCAA President. I believe these positive comments reflect the fact that the NCAA realizes that tOSU has a compliance system that is among the best, and that Andy Geiger has been instumental in developing that.

Myles Brand is a reformer who thinks that athletic programs are getting more attention than they deserve, especially compared to academics. I believe that for Brand to support AG with this statement is a very positive sign about the NCAA's dealings with tOSU.
 
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Geiger CFB 'Underworld'

http://www.dispatch.com/football/football.php?story=dispatch/2005/01/25/20050125-D1-02.html&chck=t

OSU FOOTBALL
Geiger says ‘underworld’ exists at every school
OSU AD lists range of bad elements in college sports
Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH




Andy Geiger caused a stir the other day when he referred to an "underworld element" infesting major-college sports.

Ohio State fans thought the athletics director was referring specifically to problems surrounding the OSU basketball and football programs, which are being investigated by the school and the NCAA. But Geiger said he was referring to those two sports in general.

"By ‘underworld,’ that would be agents and agents’ runners; gamblers; autograph-seekers, and by that, I mean the ones who turn around and try to sell those things; recruiting spies; maybe some boosters who are doing things they shouldn’t — the whole broad spectrum of bad stuff," Geiger said.

So just eight days before national letters of intent can be signed by football prospects, what would he tell Ohio State recruits and their parents about the current state of affairs at his school?

"First of all, the ‘underworld’ that I referred to is universal," Geiger said. "It exists at every major program in every major city on every major campus in the United States. . . . And when athletic directors get together, that’s one of the things we talk about and have great concern about.

"What I would say to any recruit and any parent, if you want to come to a very fine university and have an extraordinary Division I-A college football experience, playing for an honorable coach and a team that is very organized and very well-disciplined, this is the place to come."

In fact, he has repeated that many times this recruiting season, as coach Jim Tressel and his staff have had to deal with several well-publicized offthe-field problems. What has been the reaction?

"I think we’re going to sign a pretty good class," Geiger said.

He believes that even though rumors have swirled that another player or more might face jeopardy as the OSU compliance office and the NCAA look into the Maurice Clarett allegations of November and into the Robert Q. Baker-Troy Smith improper-benefits connection. But asked if he thought other players might be affected, Geiger said "not as I sit here right now."

Any such statement has to be qualified, he said, because major-college football and men’s basketball have "underworld elements" that keep coaches and administrators constantly on their toes.

"We investigate something every day, every single day," Geiger said. "We worry about who comes to practice. We worry about who is selling stuff on eBay. We worry about anything: What are the players doing? Who is talking to them?

"We worry about all the Internet bloggers, and the chatters, and the rumormongers, and all those kinds of things. We worry about former players who are attached to agents. We worry about Internet gambling.

"I can’t tell you how much there is that we are constantly trying to stay on top of. And it is every single day."

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osugrad21 said:
After reading that, I cannot blame him one bit for getting out. Trying to contain something so immense has to be frustrating.
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herein lies the difference among AD's. Most of them dont try to contain it, so much as they just accept it as inevitable and mask it. It's sad that all universities are under the hornet's nest. It's only those that shake it that end up getting stung.
 
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IrontonBuck said:
"Ummm... the Little Dutch Boy Saved the Netherlands in that story."

And I think the name 'Geiger' is Dutch!!! :wink2:
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If I could save the Netherlands by sticking my finger in a dyke I'd do it too... it's a small price to pay.

Interesting that Andy is talking about an underworld and "Nether-Lands" is literally, "the worlds underneath". Hmmm.... we may be on to something here... or I may be on something here.
 
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