[Dave in Green]

Some interesting data about JT in that article. For example, the fact that he has about 200 people reporting to him, and that the vice president of strategic engagement position is akin to a vice president for student affairs, but more wide-ranging. Sounds as if it's working for him and for UA.

[pat]

Some interesting data about JT in that article. For example, the fact that he has about 200 people reporting to him, and that the vice president of strategic engagement position is akin to a vice president for student affairs, but more wide-ranging. Sounds as if it's working for him and for UA.

How many people report to you has nothing to do with results. I want JT and other administrators to do what they said they would do not just what I want them to do. These photo opps and special TV news shows make the university look like phony window dressing and that has been going on for far too long. I'll be happy to be proven wrong. In the mean time, I refuse to be a blind follower. Fund raising for an arena did not start with JT and a year of fund raising by JT along with previous years of fund raising by those other than JT don't have to produce complete results but we should be seeing some progress and light at the end of the tunnel. Instead, we see a continued drop in enrollment and a deficit of insurmountable proportion. And don't blame that drop in enrollment on a so-called "higher admission standard". Not even UA is using that as an excuse...yet.

[ZachTheZip]

Tressel was brought in to counter the anti-athletics, anti-progress contingent within the university's administration that wants to see us turn back the clock to the 1970s. That's a battle that's tougher than any football game he's coached.

[pat]

Tressel was brought in to counter the anti-athletics, anti-progress contingent within the university's administration that wants to see us turn back the clock to the 1970s. That's a battle that's tougher than any football game he's coached.

I don't disagree with your assessment of why he was brought in. That said, I think it is unfortunate that any institution, especially a public university has to place people on its payroll in order to counteract other employees on the same payroll. Perhaps I'm being obtuse, but I seem to recall the day when a person was removed (fired) from an organization when it is learned that his/her behavior is counter to the organization's mission. I think they call that sabatage.

Now that you have mentioned it, I can see specific examples of what you are illustrating with a number of administrators who will remain nameless at this time. They pepper the campus like a plague and perhaps their being coddled by Buchtel Hall is a big reason why UA cannot shed its provincial image.