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<blockquote data-quote="RonJohn" data-source="post: 684060" data-attributes="member: 2426"><p>If someone asked him detailed questions about nuclear engineering would/should he have been comfortable answering them? </p><p></p><p>I do realize that he most likely worked much more than 40 hours per week. Assuming a 40 hour week “sitting in his office”, he still had meetings/receptions/events probably most evenings. 8 hours in the office plus 3-4 hours in other events turns into an 11 to 12 hour day. Also, a university president has responsibilities on the weekend. It isn't Monday to Friday. You seem to be attempting to dissect what I say into some interpretation that proves I'm an idiot. I assure you I am not an idiot. My statement in no was intended to say that a university president is equivalent to a fry cook. The athletic budget is a little less than 5% of the overall budget. That would translate to about 2 hours of “sitting in his office” time. I don't know actual figures, but I believe that if you include the time that he attended athletic events and mingled to drum up support from athletic boosters, he spent well more than 5% of his time monitoring and supporting athletics.</p><p></p><p>I do not think he was perfect, far from it. There were ethics issues of very high level people in the academic and research areas. I don't recall any ethics allegations against Peterson himself, but he is responsible for having a culture of ethics compliance and ensuring that checks are in place to prevent and/or catch violations. If someone at a low level falsifies expense reports for a while and is caught, you can't really blame the president. However, these were people one or two levels below Peterson who acted improperly for quite a while with little oversight. With respect to MBob, I do agree that it should have been apparent much earlier that there were issues. It was apparent to me as a fan. I understand that the GTAA had unprecedented turnover during MBob's tenure. That should have thrown up red flags to the administration.</p><p></p><p>My issue is with general unspecific statements like: "He sucked when it came to GT athletics and it’s apparent to damn near everybody.". I still haven't seen evidence of that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RonJohn, post: 684060, member: 2426"] If someone asked him detailed questions about nuclear engineering would/should he have been comfortable answering them? I do realize that he most likely worked much more than 40 hours per week. Assuming a 40 hour week “sitting in his office”, he still had meetings/receptions/events probably most evenings. 8 hours in the office plus 3-4 hours in other events turns into an 11 to 12 hour day. Also, a university president has responsibilities on the weekend. It isn't Monday to Friday. You seem to be attempting to dissect what I say into some interpretation that proves I'm an idiot. I assure you I am not an idiot. My statement in no was intended to say that a university president is equivalent to a fry cook. The athletic budget is a little less than 5% of the overall budget. That would translate to about 2 hours of “sitting in his office” time. I don't know actual figures, but I believe that if you include the time that he attended athletic events and mingled to drum up support from athletic boosters, he spent well more than 5% of his time monitoring and supporting athletics. I do not think he was perfect, far from it. There were ethics issues of very high level people in the academic and research areas. I don't recall any ethics allegations against Peterson himself, but he is responsible for having a culture of ethics compliance and ensuring that checks are in place to prevent and/or catch violations. If someone at a low level falsifies expense reports for a while and is caught, you can't really blame the president. However, these were people one or two levels below Peterson who acted improperly for quite a while with little oversight. With respect to MBob, I do agree that it should have been apparent much earlier that there were issues. It was apparent to me as a fan. I understand that the GTAA had unprecedented turnover during MBob's tenure. That should have thrown up red flags to the administration. My issue is with general unspecific statements like: "He sucked when it came to GT athletics and it’s apparent to damn near everybody.". I still haven't seen evidence of that. [/QUOTE]
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