By: Dave Curtis (SportingNews.com) -

An outspoken Ohio State trustee called upon university officials and supporters to re-evaluate the school’s priorities, according to an Associated Press report from a Friday Board of Trustees meeting.

“We have a lot to look at in sort of the soul-searching of what is most important in the game of life,” said Jerry Jurgensen, a retired CEO of Nationwide Insurance, in comments to the board. “The cracks here weren’t really cracks of rules and procedures. They were cracks in a value system.”

Another trustee, major OSU donor Les Wexner, responded with a defense of the university.

“I don’t think we have a lot of soul-searching to do, not at all,” he said. “We have a lot of heart-celebrating to do for the good that this university does.”

School president Gordon Gee, speaking after the meeting, sided with Wexner.

“The university is moving forward,” Gee said. “We feel very strongly about the fact that we have much to celebrate today.”

The comments all relate to how the university will recover from the…..
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