More OSU Woes

Submitted by Dr.Jay on

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)

Bronco648

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]

Tater

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.

Mitch Cumstein

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.

Brian

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.

ijohnb

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.

beenplumb

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.

Moleskyn

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.

Controversialidea

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?

Logan88

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.

rmic2

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.

BrickTop

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.

Everyone Murders

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! 

BucksfanXC

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.

jblaze

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.

FrankMurphy

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.

MaizeAndBlueWahoo

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.

zguy517

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.