What do I know about college football? I look like Orville Redenbacher. I have no business talking about college football
You gotta love that quote, it's hilarious, it shows self awareness, it's self-depricating, and it diffuses the situation with his admitting that he shouldn't have been talking about the issue in the first place (I disagree but from a pr standpoint he's probably doing the right thing) and it also suggests a background question of "why was anyone paying so much attention to what I was saying about college football anyways?" But then he outdoes himself with these statements quoted from the end of the article.
Gee told the Dispatch he has since decided, "I need to keep my mouth closed."
"I'm very blessed to have the best athletic director and best football coach in the country," Gee said, the newspaper reported. "They run the athletic program and I run the university, and I should have stayed out of there. What I should do is go over to the surgical suites and get my foot extricated from my mouth."
As for the real Little Sisters of the Poor -- a Roman Catholic women's religious order serving the elderly -- Gee said he had reached out to one of the order's homes in Ohio.
"I sent a [personal] check to the Mother Superior up there and invited her to a ballgame," he said, according to the report.
I mean, that's just text book right there. He puts his full support in his staff and says he'll let them handle things from now on, they know what they're doing, and then he even sends a check to the real Little Sisters of the Poor and invites their Mother Superior to a game. Genius! Thank God Ohio State's got him. Right now the state really needs good people in charge of its institutions and Gee is one of the best.
No comments:
Post a Comment