OSU Recruiting Violations
I think my favorite line in the article is "Most violations are recruitment violations because recruitment is the real bloodline of our athletics." Uh, really? The statistic was specifically about recruiting violations....
http://media.www.thelantern.com/media/storage/paper333/news/2009/05/20/…
LOL 60% of the Big Ten's recruiting violations comes from one team. thats pretty bad. I'll bet they get the death penalty by the time tressel's done.
they won't get the death penalty
and although for a second it seems sweet if they did, it wouldn't be that cool. we want them to be competitive.
but I think it would be cool for them to get the death penalty. I think it would be cool to kick them when they are down. I think it would be cool to hear the wailing and gnashing of teeth down in Columbus.
No one's perfect.
Those are all sports not just football. I would venture to guess a lot come from that basketball program.
cheaters
Does anyone believe that Ohio State will ever be punished heavily by the NCAA?
Of course they won't. Just like USC never will be either (at least in football).
Alabama is as storied a program, if not even moreso, as OSU, and they've gotten nailed by the NCAA multiple times. Ditto Oklahoma. Why would OSU have some magic get-out-of-jail card?
double post
That was a terribly written article. Trying to follow the math was making my head hurt. Do they even try to fight the stereotype that they are a university of neaderthals?
That was an untimely and irony filled misspelling.
"I don't view it as a bad thing. If we suddenly had zero violations, I would have to ask myself what the coaches were hiding," said Doug Archie, OSU's associate athletics director for compliance and camps.
God forbid they play by the rules
This seems not worth the righteous rage. I'll hold off until I hear Pryor smashed up a gifted Bentley or something.
how he implies it's okay because they are in the business of recruiting. Really? So none of the other big 10 schools are, huh? And Ohio State must recruit 10 x as hard to get 1/2 the violations. Hilarious.
I was so tempted to log in and "troll" on the comment section of that article. Ultimately, better judgment prevailed.
Go Blue
The stuff OSU self reported was the type of minutiae that eats up all of the NCAA's enforcement time and takes resources away from investigating USC and the whole "Sure Everybody Cheats" stinkhole with any kind of effectiveness.
Michigan is competing with the SEC schools more than OSU for the types of players RR needs. For every Ginn OH produces FL produces 20. As a practical matter TN's and AL's cheating hurts Michigan more than OSU's.
The douche that tried to do a hack job on his own school screwed the article up so bad it was useless. The Ditchpatch put the lie to it with their story.
was really not helpful. It would have been nice if they'd explained what the violations were.
2 inadvertant contacts, 1 speaking on camera at a state football final (assistant, not planned, impromptu interview), and as near as can be determined from reports, 1 parent giving 2 other parents a free ride to an away game. That's it for football.
Basketball didn't tuck a kid on an official in by the 2:00AM curfew. Paid for a second room for a recruit's parents who came with him on an official visit.
Strangest one was a tennis kid going home and playing a game with one of his friends who was still in high school.
No hundred dollar handshakes on the list.
Thanks for my doing my work for me. It's almost as if I predicted this would happen.
I wonder how "recruiting violations" came to mean "THROWIN' BENTLEYZ AND SPINNAZ AT RECRUITZ"
Everybody knows Tressel doesn't need BENTLEYZ AND SPINNAZ to get recruits. He's hardly needed to do anything at all, since he signed on the dotted line in blood to his dark master and lord, Satan. Recruits literally can't help themselves.
The corollary of this is that Andy Geiger and Gene Smith are clearly high-ranking demons. Considering Tressel's bowl record since Smith was hired, I think Geiger was a bit better at it than Smith (or perhaps a more highly ranked demon). Smith worked at IBM, though, which you would think would give him a leg up. But what do I know?