Out past the coffee shops of Seattle, Andy Geiger drinks in the decaffeinated atmosphere of retirement. When the former Ohio State athletic director isn’t riding llamas around the Olympic Peninsula or hiking the Hoh Rain Forest, he is playing silky jazz on his saxophone.
These days, that is the closest Geiger, 76, comes to tooting his own horn. So I will have to blow it for him.
Geiger’s gutsy decision to hire Jim Tressel in 2001 is a big reason Ohio State is primed to pass Oklahoma for most weeks spent at No. 1 in the Associated Press rankings.