OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY PUBLIC INFRACTIONS REPORT December 20, 2011

Submitted by Vader on

Copy and pasted title so sorry for all caps

http://www.ncaa.org/wps/wcm/connect/89166400497e7e46a353aff414ac0d18/20111220+Ohio+State+COI+public+report.pdf?MOD=AJPERES&CACHEID=89166400497e7e46a353aff414ac0d18

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

Vader

December 20th, 2011 at 5:02 PM ^

 

Best one is:
 
9. Disassociation of student-athlete 5 for five years from any involvement with the
institution's athletics program. This disassociation includes (Institution imposed):
 
a. Prohibiting him from providing any financial or other assistance that
supports the recruitment of prospects or enrolled student-athletes;
 
b. Prohibiting him from being provided directly or indirectly any benefit or
privilege that is not available to the general public (among others, this
means that he cannot have access to complimentary tickets from current or
former student-athletes, coaches, current suite holders, or alumni
members); and
 
c. Prohibiting him from using any athletics department facilities (except for
tutoring and other services, if he returns to the institution).
 
Any guesses on Student Athlete 5?

Yeoman

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.

 

unWavering

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.

Tater

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."

orobs

December 20th, 2011 at 4:28 PM ^

"13.   Prohibit  football student-athletes from purchasing helmets they wore in University of 

Michigan games until after their final year of competition."

Willhouse

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.

TheIcon34

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!"

WhoopinStick

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?!)

BlueDragon

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.

Webber's Pimp

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...

MGoUberBlue

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.

WestSider

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!

readyourguard

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"

markusr2007

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.

 

 

uofmdds96

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.

Maizenblueball

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.

M-Dog

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. 

YabbaDabbaBlue

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.

dennisblundon

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.

Picktown GoBlue

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