Ohio State’s Gordon Gee is Exhibit A for why university presidents can’t be trusted to run college sports. Consider his career arc. A dozen years ago, Gee was being hailed as a reformer. Now he’s just another fanboy. And as this latest foot-in-mouth moment reminded us, a far-too-comfortable fanboy who still doesn’t know when to stop talking. Gee’s latest gaffe was almost too predictable. He not only shares the us-against-the-world view of the most rabid Buckeye fans, he’s increasingly determined to share that view with the public. Gee did it again last December in remarks to the school’s Athletics Council that were reported Thursday, after The Associated Press obtained notes and a recording from the meeting under a public records request. In a matter of just minutes, he slammed ”those damn Catholics” who run Notre Dame athletics as untrustworthy, dismissed Louisville and Kentucky as schools academically unworthy of joining the Big Ten Conference, and suggested the Southeastern Conference…
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