More OSU Woes
My friend, a big OSU fan has heard that Verlon Reed OSU's best reciever not already suspended, is out for the year with a torn ACL, also he said Posey and Boom Herron will probably never suit up again for OSU because they are second time offenders and the university wants to show the NCAA they are serious about cleaning the school up( I literally LOL'ed at that)
October 4th, 2011 at 1:29 PM ^
I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like........victory........
[and not because a student-athlete is injured. Strictly from an institutional perspective]
October 4th, 2011 at 1:28 PM ^
That sucks for Reed. I hope he is able to have a fast and full recovery, and that he is able to get back out on the gridiron again.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:33 PM ^
...so that he can promptly get Goldberg-style spear-tackled by Marvin Robinson while going across the middle in 2012.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:38 PM ^
Also so that BWC can tackle him and then make him smell BWC's armpits.
October 4th, 2011 at 2:46 PM ^
get Big WIll C's fangers in his nose
October 4th, 2011 at 1:38 PM ^
I'd be more certain about the wind from a Marvin Robinson whiff blowing him over than Marvin actually making the tackle...
October 4th, 2011 at 1:51 PM ^
Hold on! Marvin can tackle. It's just coverage schemes he's still working on.
October 4th, 2011 at 3:36 PM ^
I hope he blossoms into a stud, but next year he will still be a backup because Gordon and Kovacs will be here.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:44 PM ^
While I don't mind seeing someone knocked out of a game, an ACL is serious business and I would never wish it on anyone. I hope Reid makes it all the way back someday. As for Herron and Posey, they deserve to be kicked out of the program and THE Ohio State University deserves to pay the full price for its prolonged pattern of cheating.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:31 PM ^
Reed can maybe red shirt (given the injury and only being 5 games in)? I don't know details, but if its an ACL only, he could be back on the field as soon as the start of next season.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:37 PM ^
doesn't sound like a friendly ACL tear:
"… Verlon Reed has torn his ACL and “everything [else] in his knee” so he will be out for the year."
I don't think he can redshirt. Apparently they changed the rule so you can redshirt if you're injured up to halfway through a season but you still can't have played in more than four games. Reed played in five. But I might be wrong on that.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:42 PM ^
Hoke mentioned something about being able to redshirt someone (Rawls) b/c the rules had changed. Presumably this is what he's referring to.
October 4th, 2011 at 2:01 PM ^
Whoever tagged this "trolling" makes Philosoraptor ask "can one troll his own blog?"
October 4th, 2011 at 2:04 PM ^
Along with the fact that the comment in question was informative and not even close to trolling.
October 4th, 2011 at 2:15 PM ^
new moderation scheme, bloggers should use great discretion as to what they tag with a negative moderation. I understand why it was changed to the current format, but there are often really good posts that go unread because somebody disagrees with the point, not because the point is without merit or otherwise offense. Unless somebody really deserves it, objectively and not because you disagree, negs should be avoided at all costs.
October 4th, 2011 at 2:36 PM ^
I agree completely. This consequence is one of my biggest complaints against the current system for moderation. I've seen many sensible comments that have been minimized and greyed out not because of their content but because someone disagreed with them. It really takes away from honest discussion.
October 4th, 2011 at 3:01 PM ^
Maybe somebody could figure out a way to include a collapsable list that shows every username for each neg or upvote. It would provide transparency since people would know who you negged or upvoted.
Personally, I don't care if people know who I neg or upvote; in fact, I'll freely admit that I'm the one who moderated Brian's post as trolling. It's something I've done the past few times I've seen him post on the board. He should know better than to come down to the nether regions of MGoBlog.
October 4th, 2011 at 4:56 PM ^
You dick.
October 4th, 2011 at 3:08 PM ^
This caused a little voice inside of me to say "Be spiteful and neg him." So far, I have resisted.
October 4th, 2011 at 3:22 PM ^
Just bring back the negbang. It was so much better then.
October 4th, 2011 at 5:29 PM ^
I agree. We could have sent moleskyn to Bolivia for that stupid thread about DG.
October 4th, 2011 at 3:23 PM ^
damn clicky fingers
October 4th, 2011 at 2:20 PM ^
It sucks enough to tear your ACL, but to not be able to redshirt because you played in one too many games REALLY sucks. Especially when it's THIS season, where if he hadn't played in their game vs Miami, it wouldn't have made a difference.
If OSU gets this season vacated too, then do the games that he played in still count? If not, could he redshirt via that loophole?
October 4th, 2011 at 2:21 PM ^
Ugh. Sounds like an Antonio Bass level of knee damage.
That dude got hurt in... 2007 or so and isn't due back until next season.
October 4th, 2011 at 2:43 PM ^
I noticed a GREAT poll over on the 11W site when I clicked on the link provided by Brian:
Question: How many touchdowns will OSU score this weekend?
Possible responses: 1, 2, 3 and more than 3. The two things that made me laugh were 1) no option provided for "0" and 2) that 10% of the votes cast were for 3 or more than 3 TD's scored.
October 4th, 2011 at 5:16 PM ^
October 4th, 2011 at 7:26 PM ^
I'm no doctor but that sounds like a career ending injury... feel bad for the kid.
October 5th, 2011 at 10:06 AM ^
Reed was on red shirt last year, and the rule is if you play in more than 30% of your teams games you burn the RS. Since he played in 5 and the most we can play is 14 (we'll be lucky to get #13) 5 means he's already over the limit (for the math challenged among us.)
October 4th, 2011 at 4:34 PM ^
He's already redshirted I believe last year.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:31 PM ^
You don't wish an injury on anyone.
The part about Herron and Posey is great though.
Anything less than the Death penalty to osu will be disappointment for me. New violations come out everyday against them - so there has to be many more 'secrets' in columbus as well.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:37 PM ^
the generalt attitude that "something has to change" because "theirs too much money at stake for the university". They just can't get away from their win at all cost mentality and it will be their eventual undoing because they can't win unless they cheat.
October 4th, 2011 at 2:35 PM ^
I don't go to OSU boards, but the idea that "something has to change" because "there's too much money at stake for the university "is hard to get your arms around.
The thought process presumably runs something like this: Integrity? Whatevah. Ethics? Whatevah. Reputation? Whatevah. Hobbling the storied OSU football team, and potentially punishing uninvolved student athletes? Whatevah. Costing OSU money? Now that's serious!
October 5th, 2011 at 10:14 AM ^
Just to chime in as a rational OSU fan here:
I would think "it comes to down to money" would really be more along the lines of the infrastructures and the people in charge, AD, HC, compliance dept, etc. aren't going to change until it can be shown that it's costing them money to not change. They will continue to cover up or at least willfully turn a blind eye to violations, unless and until it makes more fiscal sense to catch cheaters than it does to allow them to exist.
October 4th, 2011 at 3:48 PM ^
C'monnnnnn down Brionte! Not insider information, just... ya know.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:39 PM ^
Please stop with the death penalty talk. They won't get it and they don't deserve it either.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:46 PM ^
because without football, OSU would basically shut down (how does OSU find another ~$80 million in profit to offset operating expenses)?
Why don't they deserve it. Regardless of what has been proven, they have basically fostered a culture of breaking the rules ever since JT was hired. JT is still getting his full salary, and the AD/ President are chugging along. Did anyone even lose their job at tOSU? That's a big middle finger to the NCAA, and that's another reason they deserve it.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:57 PM ^
SMU was cheating while it was on probation, and there were university officials who were actively involved in paying players over a prolonged period of time. That was a program that had truly become corrupt to its core and totally fallen off the deep end.
I could see the ongoing Miami scandal approaching SMU territory, but not Ohio State. They deserve to be hammered, but death penalty? Not quite.
October 4th, 2011 at 3:30 PM ^
Agreed. The level of institutional corruption at OSU absolutely pales to what was going on at SMU. Gordon Gee is a clown, but he's not writing checks to the players with school letterhead. Probably. Miami is the only case out of the many that have come up in the past couple years where I think the death penalty should even be in the discussion - and even then if I were the discipline king I still wouldn't give it to them.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:53 PM ^
And we don't want them dead. Just humbled and weakened.
October 4th, 2011 at 2:09 PM ^
We will do more damage to their program on November 26 than the NCAA ever will.
October 4th, 2011 at 2:42 PM ^
We are literally going to sodomize them. We are going to have non-consensual sex with their faces and butts and then we're going for their wives and kids.
October 4th, 2011 at 4:14 PM ^
brakes there, guy. For a minute I thought it was Dark Blue posting.
October 4th, 2011 at 4:30 PM ^
It's a quote from "The League". I don't have that kind of...imagination?
October 4th, 2011 at 4:17 PM ^
You write the most beautiful prose.
October 4th, 2011 at 2:09 PM ^
but if they don't change their ways it'll result in them always having some sort of penalty or punishment hanging over their head and always being in the NCAA crosshairs. That always hurts recruiting/brand image/donor levels/etc. And it will hurt them a great deal as a program.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:33 PM ^
Taking out Herron and Posey for the rest of the year makes sense. They have probably seen that their offense is going to suck no matter what since they dont have an able QB at the moment so they are going to try to save their future by just giving up on this year.
October 4th, 2011 at 1:35 PM ^
each new suspension and each painful loss will help in bringing Dunn to us?
October 4th, 2011 at 6:18 PM ^
Got to.