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

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Does someone with experience editing wikipedia pages want to take a crack at editing Andy Geiger's?

This little tidbit needs to go or at least be modified in my opinion:

Geiger retired in June 2005, one year before his contract was up, saying 'the job wasn't fun anymore'. Many speculate that this decision was made because of two scandals, the first involving former Ohio State football tailback Maurice Clarett, the second involving former Ohio State men's basketball coach Jim O'Brien.
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First, it doesn't even meet with their standards since it fails to cite anything to support that claim. Second, if I'm not mistaken, he retired several years after both of those scandals... he may have been burned out because of those scandals, but the way that is worded makes it seem like he retired in the midst of them.

Finally, the page fails to list any of his numerous accomplishments as the AD at Ohio State, which seems like a shame since he was really the man responsible for setting up much of Ohio State's outstanding success over the past decade.

Just a thought for someone that is up for that kind of thing...
 
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Ozone (part 2)

Controlling the Uncontrollable
By John Porentas
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"What Ohio State has to be very, very careful about is making sure that the football program does not become its own athletic department within the athletic department," Geiger said.

"It has to be operated and conducted and cared for and cared about and managed the same way you manage the lacrosse programs or any of the other 36 sports.

"They all have to be centrally managed with the same reporting lines and all of those kinds of things. You just have to be very careful about that, and I know that they'll head in that direction."

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"I think at times that it is so big, so very, very important, that there can become a little bit of differentiation.

"I experienced a little of that and tried to nip it in the bud.

"I'm not saying that this is the case now, but I'm saying that what you have to do is have everyone comply at the same level and with the same intensity, and that it has to be universal."

All that being said, Geiger still believes that full compliance is cannot be achieved via policy or programs, but must come from the full cooperation of the athletes involved. He also knows that gaining that kind of cooperation is nearly impossible, especially when dealing with a football roster of over 100 players when walkons are included.

"It's hard, it's really hard. You can't be with them 24/7, and you shouldn't," he said.
"They're all individuals. There are a hundred individuals there that come from 100 backgrounds. You can't paint them with a broad brush. It just doesn't work."

Despite it all, Geiger remains convinced that Ohio State, and Ohio State football in specific, will emerge from this crisis and continue to be strong.

"In time, the institution and the program will repair and will still be wonderful," he said.

"These are really good people. This is just tragic, because these are all really good people."

He is also hopefully that at least one person no longer with the program, one Jim Tressel, will also be fully repaired.

"I hope people in high places don't turn their backs on him and look at the long run," he said.

"He did a lot for Ohio State."

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Sandusky scandal leaves former Md. AD ?appalled?
Penn State assistant interviewed for coaching jobs with Terps, Cavaliers
By Nathan Fenno
The Washington Times
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Andy Geiger sat in his Port Angeles, Wash., home Monday night shaking with anger.

Retired after a 30-year career as athletic director at Maryland, Pennsylvania, Stanford and Ohio State, Geiger read the 23-page grand jury indictment of retired Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky and its graphic, detailed accounts of his sexual assaults on children.

Geiger couldn?t escape the ?weird feeling? he could have hired Sandusky, now charged with 40 counts of sex abuse of eight boys, as Maryland?s football coach.

?This is the worst thing I?ve ever seen,? Geiger said in a telephone interview. ?I?m sitting in my living room shaking, I?m so appalled.?

In 1991, Geiger spoke with Sandusky, then Penn State?s well-regarded defensive coordinator, as part of a wide-ranging coach search. Later, Maryland spoke with Sandusky in 1996, and Virginia interviewed him in 2000.

Sandusky didn?t leave a distinctive impression with Geiger after their conversation. There weren?t indications of Sandusky?s off-field behavior, Geiger said. Sandusky was ?never close? to a job offer, but time has clouded Geiger?s memory of whether Sandusky withdrew or Maryland wasn?t interested.

But Geiger is aghast that Sandusky remained employed by Penn State and coach Joe Paterno until the assistant retired following the 1999 season to focus on the Second Mile charity he founded in 1977 to work with troubled boys. Geiger, who retired at Ohio State in 2005, noted that assistant coaches serve at the pleasure of their head coach, not the athletic director.

?It?s ridiculous,? Geiger said. ?Obviously, the guy was rehired every year by the head coach. It?s the head coach?s responsibility, and the athletic director and president should have had oversight.

?To gloss over the head coach is unconscionable,? Geiger said. ?In the name of all decency, Penn State should open (Sandusky?s records) up. This is not something to duck and hide from.

?It?s just horrible. How do you play a football game??

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/8/sandusky-scandal-leaves-former-md-ad-appalled/
 
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Geiger returns to campus as AD
Wisconsin-Milwaukee lures former Ohio State boss out of retirement
By Bill Rabinowitz
The Columbus Dispatch Friday May 11, 2012

Andy Geiger wasn?t looking to come out of retirement.

The former Ohio State athletic director was content living in the state of Washington. Then last week he got a call from a consultant friend asking if he?d be interested in taking over the athletic program at Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

?I wasn?t necessarily looking to get back in,? Geiger said. ?I was asked if I was interested and I felt my pulse quicken and my inner self said, yes, I?m interested.?

Geiger met with UW-Milwaukee officials and was offered the job. He started yesterday.

?I was surprised at first that I felt the way I did, that I was as excited about it as I was,? said Geiger, 73.

UW-Milwaukee competes in the Horizon League. It doesn?t have a football program, but has the state?s only Division I baseball team. The Panthers compete in 13 sports.

Geiger was athletic director at Ohio State from 1994 to 2005, a time of major physical expansion and athletic success but also scandal. The Schottenstein Center was the biggest of several venues built, and the Buckeyes won the 2002 national championship in football under Jim Tressel, whom Geiger hired a year earlier.

But Geiger?s tenure ended on a sour note. In 2004, it was revealed that men?s basketball coach Jim O?Brien had paid a prospective recruit $6,000 and was fired. O?Brien claimed he?d been wrongly terminated and successfully sued the university. That case and other demands wore on Geiger, who resigned with 17 months left on his contract.

?I was very tired,? Geiger said.

He said he looks back at his Ohio State years ?with great fondness and a sense of accomplishment, and some melancholy about some aspects of it. But I dearly love Ohio State. I had a wonderful time, most of the time. It just got difficult. Certain issues got hard.?

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http://www.buckeyextra.com/content/stories/2012/05/11/geiger-returns-to-campus-as-ad.html
 
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Michael Hunt | In My Opinion
Geiger is UWM's instrument of change

Andy Geiger is one of the lucky people. All he ever wanted to do was be an athletic director. Except for a seven-year retirement after the demands of Ohio State became too great even for one of the giants in the field, it is all he has done since the Nixon Administration.

At age 32, he already was living his professional dream as the athletic director at Brown University. He later would oversee 27 national championships at Stanford and one colossal building project after another at Ohio State, which does it bigger and better than anyone in the country.

But Geiger is also one of the lucky ones because some of the most important things came to him later in life.

Twenty-five years into their marriage, Geiger and his wife, Eleanor, a math teacher who took advancing degrees at whatever college was next on her husband's career path, adopted their two sons.

"I think it was a way Eleanor and I renewed our vows in a spiritual way," he said. "Parenting changes your life. It brought us really close together. It's probably the healthiest thing I've done in my development as a human being."

Phil is now a swimming coach at a California high school. Greg, whose heritage is Nigerian, Greek and English - a "United Nations baby," Geiger calls him - is beginning his career as a junior executive with a temporary-hiring firm.

"They're both miracles, both very bright, not genetically related to us but in every other way they are our children and I am so glad we met them," Geiger said.

It was also in his late 40s that Geiger became friends with Stan Getz, the legendary jazz tenor saxophonist. Getz was the music department's artist-in-residence at Stanford about the time Geiger hired Dennis Green to coach the football team. Getz took the Geigers on tour with him to Israel and later presented Andy with a musical instrument that would change his life.

Once he picked up the sax and began to learn some of the improvisational riffs that had been filling his head for years, Geiger had found an outlet that took him away from the pressures of major-college athletics.

"Sports are my business," Geiger said. "But the music, that's a religion."

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http://www.jsonline.com/sports/panthers/geiger-is-uwms-instrument-of-change-0d6haqn-166664776.html
 
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