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

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If anyone were to take the athletic director's job should it become vacant, they would have to have more power than I perceive AD's to have. They should be able to direct coaches, not in the sense of X's and O's, but in the sense of compliance and issues such as that. Coaches are under tremendous pressure to win and sometime they crumble and sacrifice what is right to win. High expectations and total accountability BEFORE the NCAA and the media get involved is appropriate for students, athletes, coaches and athletic directors.

Do what is right and do not empower me first attitudes is what is needed. Will it happen? I doubt that it will across the board but if you want the cesspool cleaned up that is what it will take.

A personal comment: A huge part of our society has become a blamer society and very intolerant. Thus we have fire everyone if they do not win. It is no wonder that that filters down. Kids are basically the same as they have always been. Culture and adults have change a lot.
 
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LSUcrazy;1938291; said:
Buckeyes I truly feel for your program as I have many friends and relatives in Ohio, Are y'all ready to clean house? AD 'players involved, and start fresh?
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Thanks! The program will be fine. AD may go. Pryor and JT are gone. Its probably not as bad as it sounds but we will all find out in the fall. Welcome to the board. Keep coming back!!!!
 
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I've always admired coach Tressel and think he just made some bad decisions, I still think he's a fine man. However in other parts of the country there is just alot of "got what he deserved" "decieved the fans" etc. What percentage of your fan base is standing behind coach JT and what percentage is writing him off?
 
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LSUcrazy;1938303; said:
I've always admired coach Tressel and think he just made some bad decisions, I still think he's a fine man. However in other parts of the country there is just alot of "got what he deserved" "decieved the fans" etc. What percentage of your fan base is standing behind coach JT and what percentage is writing him off?
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Check out the yahoo, tattoo thread....you will see a good example of how the fan base feels
 
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LSUcrazy;1938303; said:
I've always admired coach Tressel and think he just made some bad decisions, I still think he's a fine man. However in other parts of the country there is just alot of "got what he deserved" "decieved the fans" etc. What percentage of your fan base is standing behind coach JT and what percentage is writing him off?
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99.9999% of the fan base is extremely supportive and hates to see him go. The 0.0001% that wrote him off exited with the QB. Yes, that might be one QB and maybe two fans. You know that hot dog QB that wore #2 and spent his 3 years taking instead of giving. We would have preferred to keep the coach and lose the distractions.
 
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LSUcrazy;1938303; said:
What percentage of your fan base is standing behind coach JT and what percentage is writing him off?
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The I Stand with Jim Tressel thread has 210 posts. The I am not all in thread has 987 posts.

According to my initial highly scientific analysis, 17.5% of the fan base supports Tressel and 82.5% of the fan base is not all in.

Gatorubet has 118 posts in the I am not all in thread, and 1 post in the I stand with Jim Tressel thread, so making the correction for our exceedingly verbose reptilian barrister, my corrected calculations indicate 24% of the fan base supports Tressel and 76% is not all in.

I will leave further refinement of my calculations to others.
 
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FCollinsBuckeye;1938395; said:
The I Stand with Jim Tressel thread has 210 posts. The I am not all in thread has 987 posts.

According to my initial highly scientific analysis, 17.5% of the fan base supports Tressel and 82.5% of the fan base is not all in.

Gatorubet has 118 posts in the I am not all in thread, and 1 post in the I stand with Jim Tressel thread, so making the correction for our exceedingly verbose reptilian barrister, my corrected calculations indicate 24% of the fan base supports Tressel and 76% is not all in.

I will leave further refinement of my calculations to others.
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Your calculations are much more accurate that mine. :) I wonder who the repitilian barrister is? Hmmm? He kind of skewed the number.

My point was that most would rather keep the coach and lose the super star QB. Too bad we had to lose the one that we loved so much.
 
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I clicked on this thread for the first time just now. Found this on the first page.

Diver;155785; said:
I live in Phoenix and am a season ticket holder to ASU baseball -- one of the numerous formerly distinguished programs Smith has managed to run into the ground. This is truly the best possible choice for ASU and the worst possible choice for OSU. Smith has exactly one redeeming characteristic -- he's Black; but after all, if it wasn't for affirmative action, Holbrook would still be teaching second grade in Georgia. Apparently there's only one criterion for selection in Holbrook's book.
Smith has created a huge athletics department deficit here; he is a truly inept fund raiser who is completely unorganized and has no clue to go about anything. The building programs have languished. The baseball, wrestling, and basketball teams have been absolutely destroyed under his tenure and may never recover. In alumni/supporter events he's detached and communes only with a small group of backers who have moved into the department like vultures. They have hacked large numbers of department employees in the past couple of years in an attempt to balance the books, which still hasn't worked. In speaking with him you wonder if he's really as dumb as he comes across, or if it's an act. The athletics department is currently under NCAA investigation for a number of football violations, including the use of autos provided by department employees, academic fraud, and other maladies, and he has no handle on any of these things whatsoever.
I was truly astounded when I read this story. This guy is much worse than Jim Jones. Say good-bye to proud athletic tradition, integrity, and fiscal soundness at OSU if he comes on board for the sake of stoking Holbrook's political correctness agenda.
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Oh my.

<Apologies if this has already been quoted in the past few weeks, but I didn't want to read the entire thread to find out.>
 
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SmoovP;1938411; said:
I clicked on this thread for the first time just now. Found this on the first page.



Oh my.

<Apologies if this has already been quoted in the past few weeks, but I didn't want to read the entire thread to find out.>
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I'm quire certain it hasn't been quoted lately....wow. :lol:
 
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SmoovP;1938411; said:
I clicked on this thread for the first time just now. Found this on the first page.



Oh my.

<Apologies if this has already been quoted in the past few weeks, but I didn't want to read the entire thread to find out.>
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Jesus! Give Diver a 6 year belated GPA.
 
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