Gordon Gee Gone
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1) This sucks. I was hoping he'd stay. OSU hiring a competent president could be a bad thing.
2) The B1G has had a scandal every year it seems like since the SEC vs B1G became a huge headline where someone important has pulled a UVA line and said how the SEC isn't classy and then they get fired for being a horrible person. How does an academic who's president of a MAJOR university think it's ok to EVER talk bad about an organized religion's leaders? Come on, man. Meanwhile everything is fine down south.
2) The B1G has had a scandal every year it seems like since the SEC vs B1G became a huge headline where someone important has pulled a UVA line and said how the SEC isn't classy and then they get fired for being a horrible person. How does an academic who's president of a MAJOR university think it's ok to EVER talk bad about an organized religion's leaders? Come on, man. Meanwhile everything is fine down south.
Seems like the only thing he picked up from his time at Vandy is an SEC-worthy level of smack talking. (There was a Gameday that had a clip of a Vandy/Bama pregame when he went up to a Bama coach and said "nice to be in a town with more than one restaurant for a change, isn't it" The Bama coach was like, who the hell is this?) Unfortunately, you can't do that when you're the PRESIDENT of the LARGEST UNIVERSITY IN THE COUNTRY. You couldn't just make fun of Notre Dame for getting obliterated in Bowl Games because the Big10 wrote the book on that (picture Brian Kelly spitting "I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOUUUUU!!!!), you had to go the religious route. The big C cities in Ohio (Cincinnati, Cleveland, AND COLUMBUS) have a TON of Catholics in them. And they all wear Buckeye sweats all winter (or used to). Nice move. About the whole SEC=mouthbreathers argument: using athletics to justify an academic argument is the highlight of inanity (and vice-versa). If you want Maurice Clarett and Jared Sullinger to start writing grant proposals....go right ahead. The whole "weeeee do it the right way" is rich coming from a school ON PROBATION! Plus, did it ever occur to you that you have a basketball coach from a Catholic school (Matta/Xavier) and a football coach from an SEC school (Meyer/Florida). S-M-R-T.
I actually didn't see the big deal with his comments - America needs to grow some nuts.
However, Dan Patrick had a good point about his thoughts on the SEC. Paraphrased - "Umm, you're calling the SEC dumb rednecks? At least they can count - your conference is called the Big 10. How many members do you have?"
However, Dan Patrick had a good point about his thoughts on the SEC. Paraphrased - "Umm, you're calling the SEC dumb rednecks? At least they can count - your conference is called the Big 10. How many members do you have?"
1- while funny. It isn't a good point by Patrick. It's about the easiest joke to fall back on here. There is obviously a reason for why it's called the Big10. Just like the Big12 and Pac10 were out of whack numbers wise, there is historical context and name recognition to consider.
Patrick knows it, every sports fan knows it, so it isn't a good point. It's just a joke. A funny but easy joke.
2- of course you don't see anything wrong with Gee's comments, you thought Patrick's comment was a good point. Gee is the head of a public institution of higher learning. He needs to exude tolerance, teamwork, and understanding.
Instead, he is like a lot of other guys in his position- living thru sports to drum up financial support for the school.
The comments were totally out of line. They were intolerant, insensitive, and just plain dumb to say to a crowd.
Specifically- you don't think his comment about Bielema was out of line?
either you are unaware of the comment, or your brain didnt properly develop the part where critical thinking lies.
Kidding about the SEC was not a big problem
But he called out Notre Dame.
Actually, it was all very funny, and considered off the record.
The world needs to grow up, it was a joke.
But he called out Notre Dame.
Actually, it was all very funny, and considered off the record.
The world needs to grow up, it was a joke.
The B1G calling us rednecks is funny only because they don't see how athletics and the SEC's dominance of the market helps our academics. Not just the money we get from ESPN or ticket sales, think about the money fans donate to the school or the amount of money they spend on MSU stuff when we're successful... or the amount of people who enroll here and pay tuition from Mississippi and other states because they liked our football team (it happens). Without the SEC bringing in Drew Brees money MSU wouldn't be the MSU it is today academically so the joke is on the people up north calling us a bunch of jocks who don't care about academic integrity. MSU will never have the admissions requirements their schools have because it's a different situation.
Agreed. For the life of me, I can't understand how someone could possibly get their 17ing feelings hurt over this comment, which was obviously a joke. And its even more astounding that our society gives a **** when someone does get offended over something like this.
That said, 17 Gordon Gee and I love the fact that he is having to leave with his tail between his legs.
Agree, particularly with the SEC comments, since as I understand it he was responding to something along the lines of "The SEC says the B1G can't count."
I wasn't really bothered by anything he said. I can see the point that it's not appropriate for a university president to make those sorts of remarks though.
I wasn't really bothered by anything he said. I can see the point that it's not appropriate for a university president to make those sorts of remarks though.
I thought they kept it as the Pac10 for the first year Utah and Colorado joined. Apparently that was a totally unfounded thought?
Huh. I am actually surprised they didnt keep it as the Pac10 until all the conference realigning was done across the country. Nothing worse than becoming the Pac12 only to have a member jump ship and being 11, then having to change to that, only to pick up another member and become the Pac12 again.
Huh. I am actually surprised they didnt keep it as the Pac10 until all the conference realigning was done across the country. Nothing worse than becoming the Pac12 only to have a member jump ship and being 11, then having to change to that, only to pick up another member and become the Pac12 again.
They've always changed with the numbers. They were the Pac-8 for years before Arizona and Arizona State joined.
All the significant conference realigning is done. The Big 12 and ACC are locked since the leagues own the media rights for each of the schools even if the school were to leave. You may see someone pick up a couple of the schools that got left out (UConn, Cincinnati, maybe BYU), but that's about it. UConn's basketball scandal hit them at the worst possible time.
Haven't read all the comments ...
but I think his comments were a big deal and ultimately got him fired because he was a college president. In that position, he should be and is expected to be more careful about what he says. He's supposed to portray the ultimate sense of propriety.
If it was a football coach saying the same things, it would probably cause a firestorm of the hypersensitive, but in the end nothing would come of it.
but I think his comments were a big deal and ultimately got him fired because he was a college president. In that position, he should be and is expected to be more careful about what he says. He's supposed to portray the ultimate sense of propriety.
If it was a football coach saying the same things, it would probably cause a firestorm of the hypersensitive, but in the end nothing would come of it.