Ohio State not passing out Gold Pants...yet
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2011/05/15/trinket-…
Apparently it seems they're worried that the games may be vacated, and there would be no point in awarding them. And to because they're worried the current guys will sell them-
"If they vacate the win, it makes no sense to award the gold pants, at least in our minds," Lachey said. "And if you hand them out and say, 'Oh yeah, we'll need to get them back if the win is vacated' - I'm pretty sure that wouldn't be a smart way to go. And I'll be honest: We don't want to see any 2010 gold pants on the market right now."
It makes me happy to have chosen the university that I did.
Wow, probably not the brightest idea to insinuate that your players would still sell items of value after everything that has happened.
.....that they are not so proud that the prices would not be somewhat discounted though. After all, demand will fall once the NCAA is through shaming them.
...I think I might like to buy a 2010 Gold Pants charm on eBay as a memento of TatGate. Piss on any other year's; and hopefully they get scarce in the coming decade(s). But a 2010 charm would be a fun thing to show a Buckeye if everything goes down as it should in the next few months.
jw but does michigan give out anything to players after beating tOSU?
I think Lloyd used to give out a hearty congratulations.
Not sure anyone can remember back that far.
/sighs
/drinks
EDIT: oops... this was a reply to FeelinBlue
i like how he said on the market right now. apparently there is a waiting period before it acceptable.
To see them not pass the pants out until the players graduate in the future. But very funny that they're worried that after getting into trouble, the current players would STILL sell them.
I'd be thinking the same think if I were in the OSU Athletic Department. No matter what you say to a group of 18-21 year olds, they'll still do whatever they want. I can't remember how many times people told me not to drink...and that was actually illegal!
I don't see what the issue is here since Tressel could have just had his current players buy their own pants. Think of it as a "made in Columbus" gold pants recycling solution. Indeed, given the 'extra benefits' that players receive after coming to Columbus $545 should not be much of a hinderance. Tressel and Doug "head in the sand" Archie of OSU Compliance Office could have told the players "it's not much more than a couple of tats"
2009 Ohio State Buckeyes Football Gold Pants
...they're wrestling with:
- The value of the gold pants likely exceeds the maximum amount the NCAA permits for such awards (see the D-1Manual, Figure 16-1 Participation Awards), especially with the price of gold so high these days (the pants are gold plated)
- The potential for a vacated season and vacated win in the 2010 edition of The Game
- No effective way to prevent players from selling them while they are still student-athletes
Obviously I'd prefer that another set is never handed out because of on the field results, but my guess is that the gold pants tradition is likely to go the way of the dodo bird in light of Tat/Tresselgate.
That's too bad. Even though it's an OSU tradition, it seems like a neat tradition.
Ohio can bite my gold pants.
This exert from the Dispatch is interesting. Also, for those of you who don't know, OSU doesn't appear to technically administer the gold pants hand out. It looks like it's similar to a high school booster club that buys a t-shirt for a team that wins a championship.
"They are a symbol of being part of a special team, of a bunch of guys who worked hard for a common goal of beating our rival," said John Hicks, an All-America offensive lineman under coach Woody Hayes and considered sort of the godfather of the ex-players. "Sometimes when you're 18, 19, 20 years old, you don't realize what that really meant to you, but when you get to 60 or so, you do."
It bothered him deeply, he said, to see that several current members of the team had bartered their gold pants, but he said such foolishness isn't reserved for the young.
"I average about 20 to 25 calls a year from former players trying to find out if they can get a replacement pair," Hicks said. "Either they were lost, or they lost them in a divorce, or who knows, they might have sold them. But they suddenly realize how special they are."
What they also find out is that replacements aren't simply handed out. Lachey makes that judgment.
"And it better be a pretty good reason," Lachey said.
How many of these pants does a Buckeye player need to trade in for a new car?
Tosu can distribute and sell their pants.
Just give out Brown Underwear.
Collect Gold Pants > ? > Profit!
to our football players! Yeah, that's totally not going to backfire.