More Love from the Toledo Blade

[ORD_Buckeye]

It seems like The Blade can't even congratulate BG on hiring a new president without including the obligatory and superfluous slam against Gordon Gee and Ohio State.

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BTW, before anyone accuses me of making a mountain out of a molehill, this is the same newspaper that ran a ridiculously slanderous editorial against Gee when he was rehired which was actually crazy enough to insinuate that he's unqualified while erroneously stating that he didn't have a graduate degree.

They've also editorialized that, as part of their "Other Ohio" mentality (their phrase not mine), nationally ranked programs and departments at Ohio State should be shut down and relocated to UT and BGSU.

 

[BigWoof31]

Not to worry ORD. Within 3 months the Toledo Blade will be bankrupt and as the lead editors are cleaning out their desks, you and Jimmy T can go prancing through the office building cackling with glee.

(well - I guess you can prance, Coach T can walk briskly with a stern look on his face).

 

[JCOSU86]

But we have no doubt that the energetic Ms. Cartwright will earn every penny. In fact, she looks like a bargain compared to Ohio State University President Gordon Gee's projected $2 million salary for the coming year (not to mention his $473,000 entertainment budget during his first year leading Ohio's flagship university).

Eh, doesn't sound too bad to me. At least they called OSU the "flagship university". Haven't you been campaigning for that

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Eh, doesn't sound too bad to me. At least they called OSU the "flagship university". Haven't you been campaigning for that

Knowing The Blade, the phrase was meant to be sarcastic.:susp:

My point is why mention Gee at all. What does that have to do with BG hiring a new president? Another state paper, and it might pass without notice. Given The Blade's long time hostility to Ohio State, one has to assume that it was more than a passing comparison regardless of how petty it may have been.

Whatever the state of newspapers today, The Blade's editorial board is something a great deal more significant than a few blowhard Ohio State haters on a Fredo message board* When a major metropolitan paper in the state seems to have an undying hard on against all things Ohio State and Columbus, I think it's something of significance.


*BTW, nobody laughs at me for checking out those boards more than myself, but what can I say. They amuse me...like f*(!ing clowns.

 

[JCOSU86]

Knowing The Blade, the phrase was meant to be sarcastic.:susp:

My point is why mention Gee at all. What does that have to do with BG hiring a new president? Another state paper, and it might pass without notice. Given The Blade's long time hostility to Ohio State, one has to assume that it was more than a passing comparison regardless of how petty it may have been.

Whatever the state of newspapers today, The Blade's editorial board is something a great deal more significant than a few blowhard Ohio State haters on a Fredo message board* When a major metropolitan paper in the state seems to have an undying hard on against all things Ohio State and Columbus, I think it's something of significance.


*BTW, nobody laughs at me for checking out those boards more than myself, but what can I say. They amuse me...like f*(!ing clowns.

But why wouldn't they mention OSU and Gee? They are the standard bearers, the trend setters, the most important university in Ohio.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Toledo is a dying city. Who cares what the Blade says about anything?

 

[cincibuck]

Toledo is a dying city. Who cares what the Blade says about anything?

Actually it's more proof that Michigan sucks. They've pulled Toledo on to their side of the border.

 

[Jake]

Will someone please tell Toledo that Ohio won the war. :ohwell:

 

[The KSB]

Paranoid anyone? You need to make like Braylon Edwards and drop it.

 

[MaxBuck]

I must say that all this bashing of Ohio's other universities is unseemly and unnecessary. It creates an atmosphere of feeling threatened, and Buckeyes have no need to feel threatened on or off the gridiron. These are truly the golden days for students, alumni, and affiliates of The Ohio State University.

Nobody seriously believes that Ohio State is not Ohio's true flagship. It's no problem to me if the Blade wants to take some justified pride in the local program, and what they said about Gordon Gee is factually accurate, so what's the big whoop?

I take great pride in tOSU, but I'm quite happy to have other state universities pursuing excellence each in their own way.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

I must say that all this bashing of Ohio's other universities is unseemly and unnecessary. It creates an atmosphere of feeling threatened, and Buckeyes have no need to feel threatened on or off the gridiron. These are truly the golden days for students, alumni, and affiliates of The Ohio State University.

While I certainly agree with the latter statement. The former, given the history of what went on in Ohio and was done to Ohio State University within the lifetime of many on this board, is certainly debatable.

I merely posted a reference that I felt, particularly when put in the context of that newspaper's numerous other editorials, was an unnecessary jab at Ohio State. Like clockwork, one of Ohio State's "affiliates" comes out of the woodwork to attack. Why? The thread had nothing to do with his school or any Other State University. Why do some of our t-shirt alumni--not all, not most but a definite minority--feel so threatened by any discussion of the actual university to which their beloved football team is attached as well as some of the not so pretty statewide and inter-university politics with which it's forced to deal even today? If the topic doesn't interest you, just stay out of it.

Just because Jim Rhodes and John Millett are planted in the ground doesn't mean that the forces they represented have completely gone away. They may have lost the war, but if they ever do come back to threaten Ohio State's interests and position, expect the Toledo Blade to be their loudest cheerleader.