Ohio State’s Athletic Director, Andy Geiger, can talk about more than arenas and football.Questions from the small crowd at Hillel’s Bagel Cafe brought out an unknown side of Geiger Wednesday night. “I’ve learned through lots of trial and error, a lot of error, that as important as I think I am, my job description isn’t [just] athletic director at Ohio State,” Geiger said. “I think all that you do and all that you stand for in terms of values, add up to your job description.”Geiger is busy with his family, church and community as well as his duties at OSU. In between faculty meetings and talking sports with the press, Geiger devotes time to his love of jazz. A hobby of his is a two-hour radio show that airs on Sunday nights.Geiger has mixed reviews of himself as OSU’s athletic director. As far as athletic graduation rates and academics are concerned, Geiger gives himself a low rating. “I’m frustrated that we are not engaging the African-American student athlete in the academic life of the university,” he said.He feels he is doing a good job with marketing, building the endowment fund and hiring quality faculty members and coaches.”I don’t mean just the basketball coaches, look at soccer and hockey and the myriad of other programs,” Geiger said. “I think we’re much more sensitive to the student experience.”Geiger got started in collegiate athletics as a member of theSyracuse University crew team, which sparked his desire to pursue a profession in athletics.”What I have inside me that passes for discipline, initiative, intensity and the fire in my belly was born through the experiences that I had there,” he said. “I fell in love with athletics through [this] fortunate experience.”Since then, Geiger has worked at Brown University, Dartmouth University, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Maryland and Stanford University.”I have sincerely enjoyed all the places that I have been,” he said. “The essence of a place is its people.”