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Great, great guy but we do need someone charismatic. My buddy used to see Gordon Gee at the bars at Ohio State. Gee made an arse of himself in the media but he raised tons of money and did a pretty good job.

I just think this is bullshite. Yeah, Dan Jones is no Robert Khayat, but the mentality of "He's a guy I'd like to get a beer with" 9 times out of 10 doesn't make someone the most qualified, unless they're a salesman or a motivational speaker. Do you really want a part of our Chancellor's job description to get fricked up with alumni and make an idiot of himself? I don't see why that's an admirable characteristic for a man leading an academic institution to have. Do you think that's on the job description for Harvard's President?

I may not have agreed with everything Dan Jones did, particularly when it came to our athletic program's image, but really the problems I have with him are pretty damn minute. Who gives a shite about the bear, olemiss.edu, etc. Last I checked, we're the only school in the nation that went to Omaha, the NCAA tournament, and a BCS bowl game last year, so obviously our athletics have really only improved under him even if I disagree with the cartoon character we've chosen to represent ourselves to little kids.

But I don't think Ole Miss' image has gone down nationally at all during Jones' watch. Khayat got the ball rolling, and I really do think Jones has continued this trend. This on the other hand makes our university look like a bunch of rednecks. Newsflash, but we're probably not going to get another Robert Khayat anytime soon. Dan Jones tried to help out the academic institution and especially medical center (think it takes pretty big balls and stupidity to think you know better than he does when it comes to the later), and last I checked, I believe Ole Miss is an academic institution.

I will say this: Phil Bryant better not have any input with our new upcoming Chancellor. The guy isn't even an alumni and has no real ties to the university. Granted I know Jones wasn't an undergrad alumni, but he still got a doctorate from the university and ran the Medical Center for 15 years before becoming Chancellor. Phil Bryant can quite frankly go frick himself if he thinks he can have any leverage on who we choose as our Chancellor, and we all know this is largely our governor's doing.

This post was edited on 3/23/15 at 6:19 pm