Columbus Dispatch: Tressel Loves to Talk n Txt
I think my school law course neglected the topics on whether e-mails and texts to third parties were covered under FERPA. How could this qualify under FERPA?
I know OSU says that they were protected, but then my question is why Tressel hasn't gotten into trouble from the administration for sending out protected student information to a third party. I'm not a lawyer but it seems like the only two possibilities are a) the material isn't covered by FERPA or b) Tressel violated FERPA in the first place even talking to Sarniak. I don't see how the records aren't either released or there isn't an investigation into Tressel's disregard for the law.
I love the picture of Gene Smith that goes with the article... let the handwringing begin.
OSU's Compliance Department appears to be inept in establishing protocols that foster compliance with NCAA rules, such as a simple notepad/ledger showing which equipment has been issued to which player. However, when it comes to stonewalling the media and responding to FOIA requests, OSU seems to have some effective strategies in place that have achieved several months of delay.
"Tell the truth and your problems are in the past, lie and your problems are in the future."
Or "keep dancing on the minefield assholes."
This is pure gold till fall camp.
Wow. What a great start to the day. Went perfect with a good cup of coffee.
My wife and I don't have 5,000 personal conversations in a year.
Your wife and I do!
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by the size of your MGoPoints.
I'm obviously a newb as this post wasn't supposed to end up here.
Move along now .... nothing to see here.
Great way to start my day.
If Sarniak has ever given money to tOSU, would that make him a booster? And him being a booster make his relationship with Pryor against NCAA rules?
The Bucks are giving an absurdly expansive reading to FERPA, which exists to protect the privacy of "education records." While the statute is poorly written and very broad, it exists to protect grades, disciplinary actions for on campus incidents, test scores, school health records--you know, records having to do with the education of students on campus. But at tosu, among other things, they are claiming that records of the people who got free football tickets from players are "education records" so they have to redact the names of the students (players) and the names of the recipients (since you might be able to discover the identities of the players if the recipients were TED SARNIAK, for instance.) Give me a break. Someone is going to sue them for all this stuff, and will get a lot of what is being withheld.