Gordon Gee retires

[HotRack]

And look at how their program is doing.

 

[Johnny Juzang]

Forever grateful to the man. His brand of leadership was the blueprint for success.

 

[Buffenuf]

Oh, please, please, please, please, pleeeeease.

Benson has not been a good president for CU, especially in terms of athletics.

I call BS on your assertion! I don't know where you get your info from, (likely faculty since he only has a BA and they hate that!) but Benson has done wonders for CU, turning it into more of a business model and has been very good for CU Athletics, ONCE his focus was shifted to that!

Problem was his focus and energies were directed to getting the Medical Campus rolling----that was/is a huge enterprise, literally transforming a good portion of the University.

Always used to see him at games before he became Prez. He was instrumental in getting the Facilities upgrade rolling with his directive to the CUF to throw $10 mill into the pot. He also had to make some huge changes working with the CUF regarding overall fund-raising (which is at record setting rates) and athletic-specific F-R.

Much as I hate to say it, Hank Brown was the Prez who truly dropped the ball on athletics!

 

[MtnBuff]

I call BS on your assertion! I don't know where you get your info from, (likely faculty since he only has a BA and they hate that!) but Benson has done wonders for CU, turning it into more of a business model and has been very good for CU Athletics, ONCE his focus was shifted to that!

Problem was his focus and energies were directed to getting the Medical Campus rolling----that was/is a huge enterprise, literally transforming a good portion of the University.

Always used to see him at games before he became Prez. He was instrumental in getting the Facilities upgrade rolling with his directive to the CUF to throw $10 mill into the pot. He also had to make some huge changes working with the CUF regarding overall fund-raising (which is at record setting rates) and athletic-specific F-R.

Much as I hate to say it, Hank Brown was the Prez who truly dropped the ball on athletics!

You answered your own objection. Once he decided athletics was important he did okay. Unfortunately up till that time he left it to rot resulting in the morass we are in now.

 

[FrankRizzo]

I hope they burn some couches for him in Morgantown...

 

[jcatcher]

I hope they burn some couches for him in Morgantown...

West Virginia pulled off the biggest upset in the country Saturday, knocking off No. 4 Baylor in Morgantown 41-27, and fans partied a little too hard after leaving the stadium. Mountaineers fans, famous for burning couches after big wins, pulled down lampposts, started fires and caused several thousand dollars worth of damage, according to the Morgantown Police Department.

West Virginia seems like a weird place for Gee to end up. Colorado, Ohio State, Brown, Vandy,...West Virginia?

 

[FrankRizzo]

West Virginia pulled off the biggest upset in the country Saturday, knocking off No. 4 Baylor in Morgantown 41-27, and fans partied a little too hard after leaving the stadium. Mountaineers fans, famous for burning couches after big wins, pulled down lampposts, started fires and caused several thousand dollars worth of damage, according to the Morgantown Police Department.

West Virginia seems like a weird place for Gee to end up. Colorado, Ohio State, Brown, Vandy,...West Virginia?

Haha, after that "celebration" Gee had a video on College Gameday in Morgantown basically asking students not to burn couches.

The reason Gee ended up at WVU was because he was forced at at OSU after tattoo-gate. He said something along the lines of "I would be lucky if Jim Tressel didn't fire me" early during the scandal before Tressel's removal. I think he went to WVU just so he could retire on a more positive note than being a Tressel-head.

 

[SBG]

Gee is one of the good hires for schools that want to win. Do you think WVU or even tOSU care about dip****s on the team? Both of those schools cover up a lot of their guys' transgressions.

You think we'd care so much about academic ranking with a top 10 team? We'd be burning coaches too.

 

[dply]

You answered your own objection. Once he decided athletics was important he did okay. Unfortunately up till that time he left it to rot resulting in the morass we are in now.

He probably could have done more for football but the work he did on the medical campus and getting record donations for CU Denver was pretty amazing. His biggest issue was thinking the flagship was in capable hands with Philly D.