Ohio State vacates 2010, no scholarship reduction or voluntary bowl ban

This recidivous the school id sanctioning itself and that will be okay, then what heck is the ncaa for——Oh I know collecting MONEY THEY DIDN’T EARN———they remind me of our Government. What about the hard working stiffs of the USA unlike Clubs like the Politician (both Democrat and Republican) and the Ncaa, Lincoln didn’t abolish Slavery he just put it in the hands of these kind of organizations.

Than, what does the above picture say? It says, (from Gordon Gee’s perspective) “We’ve got these idiot sportswriters right where we want them. They’re such asshats, they’re gonna write what we tell ‘em to write and the public will believe them. OK, so! Jim Tressel is a God, the players weren’t educated properly, let’s leave out the whole ‘on probation’ business, our investigation is finished: NOTHING THERE!, we self-reported EVERYTHING, we’re good people that don’t lie- ONLY FIB A LI’L BIT, Mark Emmert is my bitch, and we’re gonna give Arkansas one helluva game (btw: note to self: will Mallet take $100K in return for one of his famous INT’s late in the game? let’s have Delany shake hands with Slive on that one. Slive hates the Hogs). . . . . Oh! That’s right- Jim Tresel is a God- stay on cue Genie-baby. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight. These hacks will never delve deep into Coach Tressel. And if they ask me ANYTHING regarding Coach- I’ll tell ‘em ’I SHOULD resign before Coach!’ That’ll slay ’em.”

. . . .not ONE, like ours. Two, counting Mayo in basketball. (for that matter: BOTH USC’s and tOSU’s infractions occurred in 2 separate sports: basketball and football. tOSU was dealing infractions involving ex- b-ball coach Jim O’Brien’s watch as well as Tressel’s football players). We had a total of 4 players (Trepagnier, Mayo, Bush, & female tennis player?), (supposedly) 1 assistant coach, and (remarkably) 1 “extra” coach not permitted: with 2 members diligently manning our Compliance Dept. . tOSU had (now) 6 players involved, 1 HEAD COACH that admittedly lied/covered-up, 1 AD that was complicit in the cover-up investigation, and 1 school President who has been woefully derelict: with a Compliance staff of 7 who couldn’t educate their student-athletes with a 3-year time limit to do so- and they failed miserably with 375 secondary violations self-reported in a 5 year period.

Again: 6 players ineligible, 1 head coach who knowingly played ineligible players and lied to the NCAA about his “knowledge” of their reported impermissible benefits, and an AD who helped to cover up the whole situation with a cockamamie investigation, giving his word to the NCAA that parlor-owner Rife and the Tattoo 5 was/is an isolated event- and purposefully not divulging to the NCAA the perks OSU football players & their families, as well as employees in their own Compliance Department were given in the form of free car-driving privileges from local auto dealerships. This could have been just a simple “ineligible players/reinstatement” situation, but thanks to all the lying and cover-up of the whole ordeal: OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY SHOULD BE FACING SERIOUS SANCTIONS.

Yes, this “appears” to be small potatoes, and it would have been, but NO! The school shot themselves in the foot, big time. If the NCAA allows them to skate, then the NCAA is complicit in allowing schools to circumvent the very rules of “fairness” that they so dearly champion. No school should be given leniency because they slap their own wrists.

And if tOSU wants to throw their coach under the bus and take the hit for this whole mess, let’s not forget that the NCAA CAN CHARGE AN INDIVIDUAL for Failure to Monitor and Lack of Institutional Control. It doesn’t JUST HAVE TO BE LEVELED AT A MEMBER INSTITUTION. A coach can be held to that standard, and the institution would be forced to turn over evidence and testimony against him.

Making Coach Tressel out to be a scapegoat can seriously backfire, IF THE NCAAA GETS OFF THEIR ass and does their job??

LOIC does fit however. LOIC must be implemented when the head coach is involved. Compliance begins with the head coach, and Tressel is Ohio State football. You can’t lump it all on him and say that he went rogue. What Tressel did in his cover up gave him a competitive advantage on the field. The LOIC rule was written for this situation. FTM being charged to Lane Kiffin and no FTM and LOIC for Ohio State is a head scratcher.

Ohio State should get a bowl ban and at least 10 schollies in my opinion. That would be an appropriate punishment for the “Tattoo 5.” The punishment for the probation violation and the Tressel coverup should be added to the 10 schollies and 1 year bowl ban.

I don’t think 30 schollies is appropriate for anyone, including us for that matter. Just give them a fair shake. Just because we got screwed doesn’t mean that everyone should be.

The NCAA moves the goalposts whenever, wherever they want to. The reason why they appear as inconsistent with their application of enforcement and punishment is because they hide behind loopholes when alleged infractions occur, depending on the university and the people in power in that particular conference.

In our case, they hit us on two fronts: Notice of Allegations and COI judgment. Their history proves their inconsistency in enforcement- so the COI Chairman ushered through (with NO MEMBER INSTITUTION INPUT) the amendment to the appeals process. So now, when it comes to “enforcement”- it boils down to: Who you know at the NCAA? when it comes to the Notice of Allegations.

It’s surprising that back in November 2010- no one caught the fact that tOSU was a repeat offender and therefore should have been placed on Failure to Monitor allegations. Instead, it was an “eligibility issue”. Same with Auburn. If that stuff happened at ’SC, you can bet your bottom dollar we would have faced serious consequences through a heavy-handed notice of allegations.

Even now, with Tressel- there wasn’t a wisp of disappointment in the eyes of NCAA Enforcement, why? They were screwed sideways by the phantom investigation tOSU put forth in the original Tattoo 5. And now, with Coach Tressel lying?

LYING TO THEM? And still, no heavy-handedness?

This is just mad! I for sure don’t want the NCAA to be unfair in their punishment for tOSU- nothing like that at all. I want them to do their freaking job, is all. The one thing that they are telling the public that is truthful is this: “Every infraction case has unique circumstances surrounding it”. [interpretation] “Different schools have curried our favor, and as such- we’re biased in how we apply NCAA rules”.

I’d hate to see tOSU get the Death Penalty- they don’t deserve that in the least. What they deserve is to be treated fairly, even some degree of lenience. But- the punishment SHOULD fit the crimes. The “dollar amounts” mean nothing in this case. It’s the widespread non-compliance matters involving numerous players, coaches and admin-types that mean the most. Compound that with the fact that 7 qualified compliance staff member couldn’t and didn’t educate their people AT A TIME WHEN THEY WERE UNDER THE GUN TO DO SO. Self-reporting violations mean very little, the new NCAA requires “high-profile athletes require high-profile compliance”. In this regard, tOSU fantastically failed.

It’s pathetic, but they very well may do just that. I agree with Frak that I’m not looking to see tOSU get hammered worse than SC, but the facts of the case don’t seem any less egregious than what SC got hammered for.

I wonder if the NCAA can afford to not be in a hanging mood, in order to avoid allegations of cronyism and inconsistency because of actions so egregious that people cannot help but notice. Somehow I doubt they have the necessary ruthlessness to stab their personal friends in the back though.