On Aug. 22, it hosted a meeting with athletic conference representatives, school representatives (including those from Texas), sports networks, media experts and antitrust attorneys, among others, to begin the discussion on a question that is tearing apart the Big 12 Conference, and could well tear apart NCAA members themselves: Do school- or conference-owned networks gain an unfair advantage in showing youth sports on their channels?
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The person spoke on condition of anonymity because Jordan and Rutgers interim athletic director Carl Kirschner are meeting again Sunday to finalize the language in the contract before an announcement can be made.
"The fathers are holy on Sunday, and they're holy hell on the rest of the week, " Gee said to laughter at the Dec. 5 meeting attended by Athletic Director Gene Smith and several other athletic department members, along with professors and students.
The statement, issued by Ohio State, is one of several apologies by Gee for wide-ranging comments he made during a December meeting of the school's athletic council.
The March 11 letter came in the wake of comments Mr. Gee made at a December meeting of the school's athletic council, during which he joked that "those damn Catholics" couldn't be trusted.
Gee joked at a meeting of Ohio State's athletic council in December that Notre Dame wasn't invited to join the Big Ten because "those damn Catholics" couldn't be trusted, according to a recording obtained by the Associated Press.
Gordon Gee also took shots at schools in the Southeastern Conference and the University of Louisville, according to the recording of the December meeting of the school's Athletic Council that The Associated Press obtained under a public records request.
In the December meeting, which related to the realignment in which numerous schools changed athletic-conference affiliations in recent years, Mr. Gee spoke of the years in which the Big Ten Conference courted Notre Dame's membership.
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