The Onion on OSU Violations
The satire newspaper "The Onion" offers up their two cents on OSU rules violations.
http://www.onionsportsnetwork.com/articles/a-history-of-ohio-states-rul…
and owe me change.
It's not all that great as a humor piece, but it is great to see "Ohio State" and "cheating" in the same article. If it works out right, enough info will "drip" into the cybersphere that at least one new article regarding TSIO and cheating will appear every day from now until NSD.
A google search for "Ohio State Cheating" turned up this:
"About 2,280,000 results
I didn't find it as funny as a lot of their stuff either. Like you, I more like it because it shows that they are becoming a national punchline, and it would seem like the NCAA doesn't want to be a punchline any more after Auburn and last season's Tat 5 hijinks with the Sugar Bowl. Some of it is a little amusing though. But I have to give my top marks to that cartoon one with Terrell's rides, Tressel heading to ESPN, and the cooler poopers . . . .
1978: While not the standard sort of rules violation, a team's head coach punching an opposing player in the neck probably deserves to be lumped in with the rest of its lowlights
"2004: Ohio State overreaches in its attempt to show compliance with academic standards when DB Ashton Youboty is named dean of the Comparative Literature Department"
That was my favorite when I got a chance to look at the rest. I also liked the one about Tressel pointing the other way when the NCAA asked which way the cheating players went.
it succinctly; at OSU, "Cheating is excused, losing is not."
This one was at least chuckle-worthy:
2011: Tressel leaves school proud he beat Michigan in the severity of NCAA violations
This is slightly off-topic, but not worthy of its own thread: The Associated Press reports on a rally held today in Columbus:
Former Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel told people at a rally on his front doorstep that he would always be a Buckeye and that the team will beat Michigan again this November.
After a crowd of some 200 people had sung a song disparaging the archrival Wolverines early Saturday evening, Tressel said, "Don't forget: Nov. 27th we're going to kick their ass!"
I guess holding a rally for a disgraced former coach is something of an OSU tradition:
Saturday's rally was reminiscent of those held for two past Ohio State coaches. After Woody Hayes was fired for punching a Clemson player late in the 1978 Gator Bowl, hundreds of fans came to his residence to thank him.
The same thing happened after Hayes' successor, Earle Bruce, was fired late in the 1987 season. Again, a large group of fans and members of the university's band came to Bruce's house to serenade him with songs.
It's worth noting that an earlier FSOhio report said that more than 1,400 people had pledged to attend the Tressel rally, but the AP reports that only 200 showed up. There's also this bit of ridiculousness:
Another show of support being organized through Facebook involves OSU's opener vs. Akron on Sept. 3. The "Vest Out" group is encouraging all who attend the game to wear some version of Tressel's signature sweater vest to honor the coach.
That Vest Out group had better not interbreed with the Buckstache wing of Blackeye Nation, or osu fans could reach a new level of freakishness in 10 years.
someone who is so dishonorable. Isn't that a sort of oxymoron, a conundrum, or something like that? OSU/fans are just overfeeding us with material with which to ridicule and chastise them.
Hopefully Michigan does not reach osu's level of ridiculousness. I've never seen osu fans across the board sticking their heads in the sand for this long on any other scandal. The alumni I know are in mourning (thank God), but other non-alum fans are still thumping their chests about *9-1 and the rest of that garbage. To that I say, SEC record, minus the obviously tainted "win" in the Sugar Bowl.
but he's one for one when it comes to his past promises about the Michigan game.