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Gene Smith (AD The Ohio State, '10 AD of the Year, '13 NAAC Organizational Leadership Award)

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I am reading the Col Dispatch the other day, and Gene Smith admits that Tressel was pressured to provide his resignation on Mem Day - despite the fact that when Tressel resigned, OSU said that he was not pressured - despite the fact that we all knew there was pressure.

So now we have Smith basically admitting that they had lied about forcing the resignation of the coach for... lying. Either I am confused or that is ridiculous on it's face. Get your story straight boys and then stick to it. It's a good thing that the NCAA can't sanction OSU for having a disasterous PR scheme! We'd get the death penalty.
 
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gene smith was just on sirius/xm's college football channel with Jack Arute and Mike Leach...dave biddle has a rundown here

http://ohiostate.247sports.com/Boar...-comments-from-Gene-Smith-on-SiriusXM-3082846

but he essentially threw JT under the bus the entire time...something he probably has to do at this point to save his job and the university from further penalties...im still not a gene smith fan even before this interview occurred
 
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OSUK;1952492; said:
I am reading the Col Dispatch the other day, and Gene Smith admits that Tressel was pressured to provide his resignation on Mem Day - despite the fact that when Tressel resigned, OSU said that he was not pressured - despite the fact that we all knew there was pressure.

So now we have Smith basically admitting that they had lied about forcing the resignation of the coach for... lying. Either I am confused or that is ridiculous on it's face. Get your story straight boys and then stick to it. It's a good thing that the NCAA can't sanction OSU for having a disasterous PR scheme! We'd get the death penalty.
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It's the same lie that's told about every forced resignation in pretty much every industry. This isn't really news, and it's not bad PR. They always fess up to what everybody already knows after the heat dies down a bit.
 
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jlb1705;1952501; said:
It's the same lie that's told about every forced resignation in pretty much every industry. This isn't really news, and it's not bad PR. They always fess up to what everybody already knows after the heat dies down a bit.
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Agreed, but there was no need to admit it. Everyone knew what had happened.

In the crises I've had to manage, we said publicly only what we felt was minimally necessary, and any future comments directed the nosy back to the original statement. Of course this approach only works if your original statement is true and accurate. That's the nice thing about being entirely truthful from the start. It's not hard to keep track of and you never have to back-track.

I think the way OSU has handled the PR of this has been an utter embarrassment and disaster - perhaps not among Buckeye Nation but in terms of everyone else. You might say, "To hell with everyone else" and that's fine, but why go out of your way to give people reason to think badly of you?
 
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OSUK;1952584; said:
I think the way OSU has handled the PR of this has been an utter embarrassment and disaster - perhaps not among Buckeye Nation but in terms of everyone else.
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Apparently, some guy named Gene Smith thinks they've handled the PR pretty horribly. He pretty much said so in his interview with Jack Arute and Mike Leach on Sirius today.

Link: http://siriusxmsports.posterous.com/ohio-st-athletic-director-gene-smith-discusse-31319

He also balked at the question that Arute asked him about his job security in the same link.
 
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alexhortdog95;1952595; said:
Apparently, some guy named Gene Smith thinks they've handled the PR pretty horribly. He pretty much said so in his interview with Jack Arute and Mike Leach on Sirius today.

Link: http://siriusxmsports.posterous.com/ohio-st-athletic-director-gene-smith-discusse-31319

He also balked at the question that Arute asked him about his job security in the same link.
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I'm personally hoping the NCAA makes him give back his 2010 AD of the Year award as part of our punishment.
 
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jlb1705;1952501; said:
It's the same lie that's told about every forced resignation in pretty much every industry. This isn't really news, and it's not bad PR. They always fess up to what everybody already knows after the heat dies down a bit.
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So why's he doing it now?
 
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Doesn't matter how much tomato juice you pour over it, the stink isn't going away entirely unless the whole of the odor has been removed from the situation at hand. I can't imagine a scenario where things start to go on the mend and Gee and Smith are still employed with the University. It just isn't going to happen.
 
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