E. Gordon Gee is a very smart man. There’s a reason he’s the nation’s highest-paid president of a public institution.
But there are some things Gee is better off leaving alone. Like anything that has to do with the Ohio State football scandal.
A day after athletic director Gene Smith chalked up the latest NCAA violations by football players to “individual decisions … made to go off the reservation,” Gee had this to say in his annual fall address to the Ohio State faculty Tuesday night.
“We are the poster child for compliance, and whenever we discover a possible infraction, we resolve and report it to the NCAA, no matter how minor the violation. That’s what we have done here.”
Gee is right about Ohio State’s self-reporting skills, which could very well save the program from…
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