was in a better position to service the debt. Geiger hired both Jim Tressel and Thad Matta as the head coaches to the American football team and men's basketball team respectively. Controversy As a result of his decision in 2003 to end Maurice Clarett's football scholarship because of alleged violations of the amateur clause, Geiger was widely criticized. Jim Brown came to Clarett's defense. Brown went as far as to refer to Geiger as a "slave master". On January 1, 2005, it was announced that Geiger would retire as athletic director with effect from June 30, 2005, and would remain with the university until June 2006. Geiger was an honorary captain for the Buckeyes for their September 15, 2007, game when they visited the Washington Huskies. Geiger was announced as athletic director at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee on May 10, 2012. He became the third athletic director there within a two-year span, succeeding Rick Costello who resigned in April 2012. He was succeeded by Amanda Braun in 2013. Geiger received the 2009 Homer Rice Award, presented by the Division I-A Athletic Directors' Association, the NACDA FBS Athletics Director of the Year Award for the Northeast Region in 2004, as well as the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame's John L. Toner Award and the Sports Business Journal Athletics Director of the Year Award, both in 2003. References External links Andy Geiger: An Oral History, Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program, 2017 1939 births Living people Brown Bears athletic directors Dartmouth Big Green rowing coaches Maryland Terrapins athletic directors Milwaukee Panthers athletic directors Ohio State Buckeyes athletic directors Penn Quakers athletic directors Stanford Cardinal athletic directors Syracuse Orange rowers Sportspeople from Syracuse, New York