By: Chris Metzger

Chris Metzger
Tue, 03 Jun 2014 22:38:14 +0000

Let me see if I have this straight. OSU hires a Texas (read: out of Ohio) firm for $600,000 to "lead the search process," AND they take out an $85,000 ad in the NYT (as opposed to just the more relevant and far less expensive The Chronicles of Higher Education) for the job. (As for an ad in The Dispatch? Puh-leez.)My FAV though is the $18K for 5 round trips on a private jet. LOL!! Mitchell dinners and lunches? LMAO!! What in the real world are the OSU trustees doing other than having parties and getting good football tickets?? Here's a suggestion: LEAD THE SEARCH PROCESS! Are they so incompetent that they (titan business leaders, mind you) cannot lead a recruitment without such massive spending -- albeit supposedly buried in "donated funds"? One would think that "word would get around" sufficiently for such an open position. All this while the costs and debts for students at OSU continues to increase. Go figure. As my pappi always said: "Son, there's book smart and there's street smart." Better yet: "ya can't fix stupid."