Ohio St. prez disregards TCU, Boise St.

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[Bad~Rodeo]

Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee refers to the opponents of Boise State and TCU as the "Little Sisters of the Poor".

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Even if TCU and Boise State run the table, they still don't deserve to be in the Bowl Championship Series title game, Ohio State president E. Gordon Gee said Wednesday.

In an interview with The Associated Press, the president at the university with the largest athletic program in the country said that TCU and Boise State do not face a difficult enough schedule to play in the national championship game.

"Well, I don't know enough about the X's and O's of college football," said Gee, formerly the president at West Virginia, Colorado, Brown and Vanderbilt universities. "I do know, having been both a Southeastern Conference president and a Big Ten president, that it's like murderer's row every week for these schools. We do not play the Little Sisters of the Poor. We play very fine schools on any given day.

"So I think until a university runs through that gantlet that there's some reason to believe that they not be the best teams to [be] in the big ballgame."

Boise State president Bob Kustra, in an interview with the Idaho Statesman, returned fire.

"The BCS has finally found someone to stand up and defend the indefensible and Gordon Gee proved it -- he not just proved that it's indefensible but he did so with facts that are simply wrong," Kustra told the newspaper.

Boise State has beaten one team in the current top 25 of the BCS standings, beating No. 16 Virginia Tech. Ohio State has played two top-25 BCS teams -- losing to No. 7 Wisconsin but beating No. 24 Iowa. TCU has beaten No. 20 Utah.

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[alrea]

Gordon Gee is just a civil servant at a government-run Yankee school.

Since he has Government status he deserves better. His University is far more progressive and enlightened. His Union run state is spending too much money on this conglomerate team to have to compete with a small private school from a hick state like Texas. /s

[alrea]

“Murderers Row”

includes Marshall, Ohio, Eastern Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Purdue

[OrioleFan]

I see your point about paying the bills. However, do you think OSU would play BSU on a neutral field? I doubt it. Too much to lose for OSU and too much to gain for BSU.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

There are many people who can make a statement like this but (the given OSU’s recent BCS record) the Ohio State president is not one of them. By saying this he has indirectly placed alot of pressure on Wisconsion who will probably now play TCU in the Rose Bowl.

[GreenAccord]

This thread (as many CFB ones with OSU have been of late) is filled with anti-Buckeye fervor. What Gee’s comments meant are that teams like Boise and TCU face an ENTIRE (with rare exception) regular season schedule comprised of the teams equivalent to the weakest non-conference schedules of the bigger schools. Their conference games are essentially equivalent to the weaker non-conference games of the BCS schools.

Of course there are exceptions, but it is almost unarguable that if a team like South Carolina, or Oklahoma State, or Arizona (perennial mid-tier conference teams) played a conference schedule that TCU plays, they’d be undefeated year after year.

I believe this was Gee’s point, that an undefeated Boise or TCU has had to face an exceptionally weak schedule as a whole.