WTAM: Geiger Retiring
WTAM: Geiger Retiring
WTAM is reporting that OSU Athletic Director Andy Geiger will be retiring this year. Hopefully Paul Krebs won't be leaving
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Given your screenname, let me guess you are disgruntled that the Mens track team was discontinued.BGSUCC wrote:Lets hope he is leaving, he is a bad athletic director. all he cared about was football and no other sports. i want the school to be good at all sports not just one.
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I wouldn't knock Krebs push for a successful football program. It is the biggest revenue generator. The other (non-revenue) sports coaches understand the need to have a football program that brings in the bucks. It allows them to have jobs and athletes to compete.
Plus, once you have a successful gridiron program, it brings up the talent level of the other sports and overall student population. With the recent success of the football program, more students are coming to BG which means more money for all athletic programs. I would attribute some of that to the national recognition BG has gotten the past three years.
Krebs is doing a fantastic job. I would hate to lose him.
Plus, once you have a successful gridiron program, it brings up the talent level of the other sports and overall student population. With the recent success of the football program, more students are coming to BG which means more money for all athletic programs. I would attribute some of that to the national recognition BG has gotten the past three years.
Krebs is doing a fantastic job. I would hate to lose him.
Are you talking about Krebs or Geiger?BGSUCC wrote:Lets hope he is leaving, he is a bad athletic director. all he cared about was football and no other sports. i want the school to be good at all sports not just one.
Krebs has helped raise the profile of the university, cuts to the number of varsity teams notwithstanding. I'd hate to see him leave and I think the University will be the worse for it if he does.
As for Geiger, I can't imagine caring any less about what happens in Columbus, other than it may have an impact on BG.
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First, its not as if BG was the only school that has cut sports--it has been going on across the board, and I don't believe its only football that he cares about. I felt his rationale for the moves we made was entirely logical and reasonable, though difficult.
Second, he's done a great job, IMO, with our programs, and I would be sorry to lose him.
Third, yes, he's considered a very serious candidate at OSU, BASED on his success here. He also came here from OSU. He has been mentioned by name as a potential replacement in various places. Doesn't mean he will get it.
OSU may well be looking for someone outside for the perception of "cleaning things up."
Second, he's done a great job, IMO, with our programs, and I would be sorry to lose him.
Third, yes, he's considered a very serious candidate at OSU, BASED on his success here. He also came here from OSU. He has been mentioned by name as a potential replacement in various places. Doesn't mean he will get it.
OSU may well be looking for someone outside for the perception of "cleaning things up."
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From ESPN.com
Ohio State leader dealt with Clarett, firings
Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State athletic director Andy Geiger is retiring after two years of turmoil that included allegations of improper benefits by football star Maurice Clarett.
Geiger and school president Karen Holbrook planned to attend a news conference at 1 p.m. ET Wednesday.
From the time Clarett led the Buckeyes to the national championship in 2002, the school's athletic department has been beset by NCAA investigations of its football and men's basketball programs.
After leading Ohio State to the national title as a freshman, Clarett was suspended for lying to investigators during an NCAA probe of allegations that he received improper benefits from a family friend.
Geiger, 65, has been athletic director since 1994.
He fired basketball coach Jim O'Brien and football coach John Cooper and dealt with the recent embarrassments, but also oversaw an unprecedented building spree on campus that included the expansion of 83-year-old Ohio Stadium and the construction of Value City Arena and Bill Davis Stadium.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=1959553
Associated Press
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Ohio State athletic director Andy Geiger is retiring after two years of turmoil that included allegations of improper benefits by football star Maurice Clarett.
Geiger and school president Karen Holbrook planned to attend a news conference at 1 p.m. ET Wednesday.
From the time Clarett led the Buckeyes to the national championship in 2002, the school's athletic department has been beset by NCAA investigations of its football and men's basketball programs.
After leading Ohio State to the national title as a freshman, Clarett was suspended for lying to investigators during an NCAA probe of allegations that he received improper benefits from a family friend.
Geiger, 65, has been athletic director since 1994.
He fired basketball coach Jim O'Brien and football coach John Cooper and dealt with the recent embarrassments, but also oversaw an unprecedented building spree on campus that included the expansion of 83-year-old Ohio Stadium and the construction of Value City Arena and Bill Davis Stadium.
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/news/story?id=1959553
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Yeah he has made pretty bad hires(rehires) in men's basketball, women's basketball, and ice hockey.BGSUCC wrote:Lets hope he is leaving, he is a bad athletic director. all he cared about was football and no other sports. i want the school to be good at all sports not just one.
Sure he focused a lot on football lately, but if you truelly are a fan/supporter of the little sports, you want football to succeed- bring in revenue, be on tv, raise university's profile so that your other sports will benefit.
Trust me, I played soccer in college, I know all about being the "little guy" in the athletic program.
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OSU To Announce Geiger's Retirement
Ohio State University's Director of Athletics Andy Geiger is calling it quits, and he's expected to make it official in a news conference at 1 p.m.
10TV first got wind that Geiger was going to retire on Tuesday. Sources say Geiger met with his senior staff telling them he was going retire.
It is rumored he will retire in June, and then stay on at the university for another year as a consultant.
10TV spoke to Geiger Tuesday, who said that he was in talks with the university concerning his retirement, but it was premature to say any thing else.
Geiger became athletic director at Ohio State in 1994. In his tenure he modernized the school's athletic facilities, from building the Schottenstein Center to renovating the Horseshoe.
Over the last two years he has had to deal with NCAA investigations into men's basketball and football.
Ohio State has the second largest athletic department in the country. The athletic department also has one of the largest debts in the country, at well over $200 million.
OSU President Karen Holbrook has publicly praised Geiger, saying she believes Ohio State's athletics program has been put in a negative light by media but is actually succeeding academically and in competition.
The conference will be carried live on WBNS-10TV and ONN.
Stay tuned to WBNS-10TV and 10TV.com for more information.
http://wbns.com/Global/story.asp?S=2767620&nav=LUERUqXm
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OSU's Geiger To Announce Retirement Today
Athletic Director Plagued By Several Incidents In Last Few Years
POSTED: 10:20 am EST January 5, 2005
UPDATED: 11:19 am EST January 5, 2005
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio State University has scheduled a 1 p.m. news conference to announce the retirement of athletic director Andy Geiger.
University president Karen Holbrook will also attend the news conference, according to a press release issued by Ohio State. The news conference will be seen live on NBC 4 and nbc4i.com.
NBC 4's Joe Weasel reported that Geiger's retirement would be effective on June 30.
Geiger, 65, was named Ohio State's seventh athletic director on April 29, 1994. He officially took over on May 16, 1994.
Geiger was perhaps best known at Ohio State for helping update the university's aging athletic facilities. Under his leadership, Ohio State constructed and opened Bill Davis Baseball Stadium, and the 19,100-seat Jerome Schottenstein Center, which houses men's and women's basketball and men's ice hockey, as well as other entertainment events.
The Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium was completed in 2001, which is home to soccer, lacrosse and track and field.
Geiger was also behind the three-year, $200 million renovation of Ohio Stadium, which now seats more than 101,000.
His last few years at Ohio State were tarnished by several off-the-field incidents. Following the Buckeyes' 2002 football national championship season, Geiger was forced to defend the university after a New York Times article revealed several accusations made against the program by a former teaching assistant, indicating that some football players, specifically ex-tailback Maurice Clarett, received preferential treatment in the classroom.
The NCAA later cleared the university following an investigation.
Geiger also had to deal with other controversies involving Clarett, including claims that the university did not allow Clarett to travel to Youngstown for a friend's funeral the week of the 2003 Fiesta Bowl national championship game. Geiger also suspended Clarett for misleading investigators into Clarett's claim that more than $10,000 in clothing, CDs, cash and stereo equipment was stolen in April 2003 from a car Clarett borrowed from a local dealership.
In June 2004, Geiger fired head men's basketball coach Jim O'Brien after it was revealed that O'Brien paid a recruit's mother $6,000. The recruit Aleksander Radojevic, never attended Ohio State.
In the fall, Geiger and the university were targeted by a series of articles in ESPN The Magazine that quoted former players, including Clarett, about alleged wrongdoings in the football program. A few days later, O'Brien filed a lawsuit against the university, claiming he was owed at least $3.4 million.
Last month, Geiger announced a self-imposed one-year postseason ban for the men's basketball team in the wake of O'Brien's firing. A few days later, he was responding to questions raised after quarterback Troy Smith was suspended from the Alamo Bowl for allegedly receiving money from a university booster.
In mid-November, Geiger told NBC 4 that he had never experienced widespread trouble that he had recently.
"I've been the college athletic director at five universities for 33 years, all distinguished and fine universities," Geiger told NBC 4 in November. "There had been instances of times when I wish things had been better, but this type of thing is a new one for me and it's not enjoyable."
Geiger told NBC 4 that he was concerned about the perception of Ohio State through all of these incidents. He also said he feels bad that some of the success in other sports gets overshadowed by the negative incidents.
The university's programs were chronicled during national telecasts involving the football team through much of the 2004 season. Last week, some ESPN analysts said that Geiger should step down.
Geiger came to Ohio State from the University of Maryland, where he spent three years as the director of athletics. He also has served in that same capacity at Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University.
Watch NBC 4 and refresh nbc4i.com for additional information.
http://www.nbc4i.com/sports/4049507/detail.html
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Ohio State University's Director of Athletics Andy Geiger is calling it quits, and he's expected to make it official in a news conference at 1 p.m.
10TV first got wind that Geiger was going to retire on Tuesday. Sources say Geiger met with his senior staff telling them he was going retire.
It is rumored he will retire in June, and then stay on at the university for another year as a consultant.
10TV spoke to Geiger Tuesday, who said that he was in talks with the university concerning his retirement, but it was premature to say any thing else.
Geiger became athletic director at Ohio State in 1994. In his tenure he modernized the school's athletic facilities, from building the Schottenstein Center to renovating the Horseshoe.
Over the last two years he has had to deal with NCAA investigations into men's basketball and football.
Ohio State has the second largest athletic department in the country. The athletic department also has one of the largest debts in the country, at well over $200 million.
OSU President Karen Holbrook has publicly praised Geiger, saying she believes Ohio State's athletics program has been put in a negative light by media but is actually succeeding academically and in competition.
The conference will be carried live on WBNS-10TV and ONN.
Stay tuned to WBNS-10TV and 10TV.com for more information.
http://wbns.com/Global/story.asp?S=2767620&nav=LUERUqXm
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OSU's Geiger To Announce Retirement Today
Athletic Director Plagued By Several Incidents In Last Few Years
POSTED: 10:20 am EST January 5, 2005
UPDATED: 11:19 am EST January 5, 2005
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio State University has scheduled a 1 p.m. news conference to announce the retirement of athletic director Andy Geiger.
University president Karen Holbrook will also attend the news conference, according to a press release issued by Ohio State. The news conference will be seen live on NBC 4 and nbc4i.com.
NBC 4's Joe Weasel reported that Geiger's retirement would be effective on June 30.
Geiger, 65, was named Ohio State's seventh athletic director on April 29, 1994. He officially took over on May 16, 1994.
Geiger was perhaps best known at Ohio State for helping update the university's aging athletic facilities. Under his leadership, Ohio State constructed and opened Bill Davis Baseball Stadium, and the 19,100-seat Jerome Schottenstein Center, which houses men's and women's basketball and men's ice hockey, as well as other entertainment events.
The Jesse Owens Memorial Stadium was completed in 2001, which is home to soccer, lacrosse and track and field.
Geiger was also behind the three-year, $200 million renovation of Ohio Stadium, which now seats more than 101,000.
His last few years at Ohio State were tarnished by several off-the-field incidents. Following the Buckeyes' 2002 football national championship season, Geiger was forced to defend the university after a New York Times article revealed several accusations made against the program by a former teaching assistant, indicating that some football players, specifically ex-tailback Maurice Clarett, received preferential treatment in the classroom.
The NCAA later cleared the university following an investigation.
Geiger also had to deal with other controversies involving Clarett, including claims that the university did not allow Clarett to travel to Youngstown for a friend's funeral the week of the 2003 Fiesta Bowl national championship game. Geiger also suspended Clarett for misleading investigators into Clarett's claim that more than $10,000 in clothing, CDs, cash and stereo equipment was stolen in April 2003 from a car Clarett borrowed from a local dealership.
In June 2004, Geiger fired head men's basketball coach Jim O'Brien after it was revealed that O'Brien paid a recruit's mother $6,000. The recruit Aleksander Radojevic, never attended Ohio State.
In the fall, Geiger and the university were targeted by a series of articles in ESPN The Magazine that quoted former players, including Clarett, about alleged wrongdoings in the football program. A few days later, O'Brien filed a lawsuit against the university, claiming he was owed at least $3.4 million.
Last month, Geiger announced a self-imposed one-year postseason ban for the men's basketball team in the wake of O'Brien's firing. A few days later, he was responding to questions raised after quarterback Troy Smith was suspended from the Alamo Bowl for allegedly receiving money from a university booster.
In mid-November, Geiger told NBC 4 that he had never experienced widespread trouble that he had recently.
"I've been the college athletic director at five universities for 33 years, all distinguished and fine universities," Geiger told NBC 4 in November. "There had been instances of times when I wish things had been better, but this type of thing is a new one for me and it's not enjoyable."
Geiger told NBC 4 that he was concerned about the perception of Ohio State through all of these incidents. He also said he feels bad that some of the success in other sports gets overshadowed by the negative incidents.
The university's programs were chronicled during national telecasts involving the football team through much of the 2004 season. Last week, some ESPN analysts said that Geiger should step down.
Geiger came to Ohio State from the University of Maryland, where he spent three years as the director of athletics. He also has served in that same capacity at Brown University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University.
Watch NBC 4 and refresh nbc4i.com for additional information.
http://www.nbc4i.com/sports/4049507/detail.html
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Value City Arena is pretty much a joke IMO. Not that it was Krebs fault, but it loses lots of $$, and they can't seem to fill it for whatever reasons (many I am sure)OptionQB wrote:Krebs oversaw the ticket sales operation in Columbus before coming to BG and played an integral role in the building of Value City Arena despite its name.
He is a very likely candidate.
I do think it is a nice place overall though, if it wasn't part of lOSerU.
why do these damn lOSerU Blackeyes posts keep popping up?
I hope we don't lose Krebs. Any other suggestions out there? I think they should check with the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections to see if there are any good Wardens who need jobs.
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I agree. To lose Krebs would be a huge loss. He has done an awesome job as the BG AD. Krebs has all the credentials to get that job.Schadenfreude wrote:This is terrible news.
My money is on Krebs to get the job -- and that would be a terrible, terrible loss for us, much bigger than the loss of any single head coach. This could set us back for a generation.
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Can't blame the guy if he gets the job. Krebs has worked his tail off to give BGSU a solid atheltic department.
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The biggest problem with Value City Arena is there is way too much exposed concrete on the inside and it does not have a "finished" look to it. From a logisitics standpoint, the biggest problem is that the Nationwide Communistic Insurance Company built a similarly sized arena downtown 2 years later that shows how much tOSU's beloved Value City Arena lives up to its name. If there are any professional wrestling fans or hockey fans, from what I am told out there, the only better place to watch either that I've been to is Allstate Arena in Chicago (TAFKA the Rosemont Horizon), which also has a similar seating configuration.
