OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC INFRACTIONS REPORT December 20, 2011
Copy and pasted title so sorry for all caps
34 pages of what they did wrong, the exact penalties, rationale of the committee, and a nice timeline at the end that sums all the infractions up. Should be NY Times best seller pretty soon
December 20th, 2011 at 4:25 PM ^
Best early Christmas present ever.
December 20th, 2011 at 5:02 PM ^
December 20th, 2011 at 5:17 PM ^
Tattoo receiver #59?
December 20th, 2011 at 5:39 PM ^
Chrysler 300 purchaser #43
December 20th, 2011 at 11:31 PM ^
that was purchased?
December 20th, 2011 at 11:38 PM ^
Yes, but Chrysler Purchaser #43 =/= Player #5
December 20th, 2011 at 5:25 PM ^
I tried to look up this first item, but it must be a mistake because the game never happened.
January 8 - Ohio State defeated the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville 31-26 in the
2011 BCS Allstate Sugar Bowl. Student-athlete 5 was named Most Valuable Player.
Any public reference to these vacated contests, including the institution's 2010 conference championship in football and its appearance in the 2011 Sugar Bowl, shall be removed from athletics department stationery, banners displayed in public areas and any other forum in which they may appear.
December 20th, 2011 at 4:27 PM ^
WE ARE MICHIGAN! GO BLUE!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We are forever in their heads.
December 20th, 2011 at 4:30 PM ^
If they're willing to sell memoirs of beating Michigan in the past, why would they ever want to buy memoirs of the ass-kickings we're going to hand them in the future?
December 20th, 2011 at 4:34 PM ^
I just like the fact that Michigan is in the last sentence of the last item in TSIO NCAA investigation. Oh Glorious America!
December 20th, 2011 at 4:29 PM ^
OSU's coaching staff just released a statement about the sanctions:
“I agreed to become the head football coach at The Ohio State University because Shelley and I are Ohio natives, I am a graduate of this wonderful institution and served in this program under a great coach. I understand the academic and athletic traditions here and will give great effort to continue those traditions.
“It is still my goal to hire excellent coaches, recruit great student-athletes who want to be a part of this program and to win on and off the field. The NCAA penalties will serve as a reminder that the college experience does not include the behavior that led to these penalties. I expect all of us to work hard to teach and develop young student-athletes to grow responsibly and to become productive citizens in their communities upon graduation.”
No word yet from their other coaching staff.
December 20th, 2011 at 6:09 PM ^
What Urban REALLY meant:
"We will work as hard as we can to ensure that we are never caught cheating again. We will bend every rule to its fullest, and I will personally lie to as many recruits as I can about the other schools recruiting them and about what is going on here in Columbus. If, at any time, it looks like we are going to get caught again, I promise to develop more 'health concerns' and abandon yet another team."
December 20th, 2011 at 4:28 PM ^
"13. Prohibit football student-athletes from purchasing helmets they wore in University of
December 20th, 2011 at 4:45 PM ^
suck it Urban
December 20th, 2011 at 4:57 PM ^
Forwarded to all and to all a good night.
December 20th, 2011 at 5:03 PM ^
I still think this is weak. They were knowingly breaking rules for 10 years, in which they won multiple conference titles, an NCAA championship and a Heisman. They basically proved cheating is advantageous. The NCAA should have made a statement and atleast had one more year of no postseason and a loss of 5 schollies per year for atleast three years. Besides a non-existent 2010, there really won't be any real lasting or major repurcussions.
Oh well. I don't wanna sound like a whiner. I just hope our product on the field matches there's and we can whip their butts on regular occassion to put them in their place.
December 20th, 2011 at 5:25 PM ^
11. During the period of probation, the institution shall:
a. Inform prospective student-athletes in (affected sports) that the institution
is on probation for three years and the violations committed. If a
prospective student-athlete takes an official paid visit, the information
regarding violations, penalties and terms of probation must be provided in
advance of the visit. Otherwise, the information must be provided before
a prospective student-athlete signs a NLI.
"Wait! Before you sign that NLI, here is a little info about our probations and violations we committed. Thank you...please sign!"
December 20th, 2011 at 5:34 PM ^
The NCAA document references major violations by the football program in 1957 and 1978. Anyone know what those were for?
(OSU claims a national championship in 1957 - the same year as major violations?!)
December 20th, 2011 at 9:31 PM ^
I'm not sure about 1978. I think the 1957 case involved Woody Hayes, who had a fund set up to pay players who needed financial assistance, in violation of NCAA rules.
December 20th, 2011 at 5:50 PM ^
Not strong enough. One year bowl ban is to save face and make the penalties look stronger. But I'm a biased Michigan fan so that's just me. 5 year show cause for Tressel is funny.
December 20th, 2011 at 11:43 PM ^
Especially since next year was likely to be a rebuilding year anyway...
December 20th, 2011 at 7:06 PM ^
This was a slap on the wrist.
December 20th, 2011 at 7:24 PM ^
This symbolic bowl ban they are slapping Ohio with doesn't mean much in the larger scheme of things. This is a program that cheated for close to a decade and yet they get to skate with 9 scholarship reductions!?! Don't be fooled by the bowl ban. The NCAA has slapped Ohio on the wrist...
December 20th, 2011 at 7:24 PM ^
But what probably saved ohio from worse punishment is (1) throwing JT under the bus once they realized the depth of the shitter and (2) then seeming to work with the NCAA is somewhat of a forthright manner. The NCAA really hammered the sanctimonius prick ex-coach, which is delightful.
I think the reason USC got such heavy punishment is that they stonewalled the NCAA investigation for several years without providing any assistance. The loss of 10 scholarships a year does not kick in for USC until next year (I think), so let's see how that plays out in the next several years.
It could not happen to any better deserving schools.
December 20th, 2011 at 8:10 PM ^
to the NCAA and the rest of the country for an entire season, screwing over the Arkansas team in the end by playing ineligible players. Gee and Smih were complicit, obviously to all of us and the rest of the country, and the NCAA gave a decent, but woefully inadequate set of penalties. This was just a smidge more than a slap on the wrist, and falls far short of an appropriate suite of consequences. The Show Cause against Tressel is the appropriate variable here. The one year bowl ban should be at least two; one for f---king over Arkansas, and another as a consequence for that. The scholarship losses are weak, and should have been at least doubled/tripled. OSU was the laughingstock of the country for months, with their obvious lack of institutional control, failure to monitor, bizarre and corrupt administrative 'management' of the situations, and so forth. The fact that years of similar problems have come to light should have made the NCAA lower the boom on them. While some consequences are better than none, I continue to question the NCAA as an enforcement administration, and call for further reforms. If only they had the power of the subpoena. I will enjoy every single Ohio loss for the rest of my life, in enhanced fashion. Go Blue, Go Wolverines!
December 20th, 2011 at 8:22 PM ^
Case Chronology
Fall 2001-Prior to a game during the 2001 football season, the former head football coach noticed the representative hiding in a locker dressed as an assistant coach. The former head coach subsequently barred the representative from the locker room.
However,
May 2005-The former head coached wrote a letter to the representative asking him to deliver food where student-athletes did not have access to it.
In other words, Tressel said "Dude, you can't be in the locker room dressed as an assistant coach...but could you bring us some food. We're starvin"
December 20th, 2011 at 9:16 PM ^
1956-1957 - In a 1955 article in Sports Illustrated, Hayes admitted making small personal loans to financially needy players.[10] The article resulted in a furor over possible violations of NCAA rules, and the faculty council, followed by the Big Ten and NCAA, conducted lengthy investigations. Big Ten Commissioner Kenneth "Tug" Wilson found Hayes and the program guilty of violations and placed it on a year's probation in 1956. They didn't go to the Rose Bowl that year, which was the only bowl game for Big Ten teams at the time. OSU won the 1957 Big Ten title though and lost to Oregon in the 1958 Rose Bowl game.
I think 1978 involved Hayes punching Clemson's Charlie Baumann in the Gator Bowl loss.
December 20th, 2011 at 10:24 PM ^
States that aOSU accepted the resignation of their head coach. Did he not "retire", so that he could receive his pension? Surely the NCAA must have made a typo.
December 20th, 2011 at 10:40 PM ^
Nice use of the word "an" before OSU. There is nothing more obnoxious than their THE before OSU. I prefer to call them Ohio, like our fearless leader...and from what I hear, it seems to really annoy those rotten nut fans too- even though they pretend it doesn't bug them.
December 20th, 2011 at 10:46 PM ^
"student-athlete 5 sold his . . . Tostitos Fiesta Bowl sportsmanship award to the owner of the tattoo parlor for a total of $2,500."
They may want to check a little more carefully next time they give out that award.
December 20th, 2011 at 11:45 PM ^
Maybe he said, "Thanks for the cash" and shook his hand.
December 20th, 2011 at 11:45 PM ^
if not, that's some serious bullshit
December 21st, 2011 at 1:38 AM ^
Here's an article from FoxSports. I agree with the author's point, where he calls out Gene Smith for saying that they're surprised and disappointed with the consequences, when none of this should really come as a surprise.
December 21st, 2011 at 3:54 AM ^
Don't have enough points to post a topic but I thought I'd share.
December 21st, 2011 at 7:45 AM ^
I think lost in all of these sanctions is that OSU will lose an entire year of extra bowl practices. These practices are crucial in developing a young team. I think this hurt us the most in years prior under RR.
December 21st, 2011 at 10:31 AM ^
osu only vacates *wins* in 2010 - so they have a losing record of 0-1. And either Florida gives them two losing seasons in a row, or else Florida's active streak of 31 non-losing seasons comes to an end. Both schools also dropped out of having the longest active streak of weeks on the AP top 25 during the 2011 season (not sure who's the longest now, though).
New record: 58-43-6*
*2010 osu win vacated