OSU Response to COI Due Date Extended
Dan Wallenberg, OSU's Associate Athletics Director for Communications just tweeted the following:
Regarding [our] NCAA Response: the Committee on Infractions has extended the response date for all parties to Friday, July 8.Ohio State will most likely make that document public on July 11 after required FERPA redactions have been made.
I'm sure that after they've completed their FERPA redactions it will look something like this:
Enjoy yourself on 11 July.
I'm a little confused, what is happening on July 11?
NCAA told OSU: You did these things that were bad!!!
OSU has a chance to respond saying: We didn't do this, we did this by mistake! we did xxxx
Then NCAA takes what they know and OSU's response and says: You get this punishment
OSU's response happens on the 8th to the NCAA, meaning it will go public on the 11th
You forgot the juicy part: OSU will almost certainly self-inflict its punishment as part of this response. If the way they've handled this up til now is any indication, they'll put themselves on six-game probation and take away one practice hour per week.
So this is the part where they give themselves the punishment and the NCAA bumps it up or down?
The NCAA never bumps it down. They'll let you tie your own noose if you like. But any up-bumping won't happen until the hearing which is - for now - scheduled for August. The hearing is the formal application of the punishment, which the NCAA will either accept or add to. The response is OSU saying "here's what we think we did (and didn't do) wrong, and why, and here's what we'll do to fix it." All the NCAA will do here is to say, "thanks, got it, see you in August."
...will release its response to the NCAA's Committee on Infractions (COI). That release will be redacted (deleting names and specific references to individual students) to comply with the Federal Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).
Now this is mostly pertaining to tressel, right? So in order for them to get hit with LOIC or failure to monitor, the NCAA would have to serve OSU with a new set of allegations, correct?
Correct. LOIC isn't alleged here. We don't know if the NCAA is going to give OSU another notice of allegations or not.
...Notice of Allegations alleges violations of bylaws 12.1.2.1.6, 14.11.1, 16.1.4, and 16.11.1.6 by student-athletes in the first instance and of bylaw 10.1 by Tressel in the second instance.
Since this notice of allegations was issued, more revelations were made about shady activity in Columbus including additional student-athletes selling memorabilia to Dennis Rife for cash, tattoos, and/or drugs; improper car sales; improper benefits provided by Dennis Talbott for signed memorabilia.
The NCAA has apparently looked into these reports and it's highly probably that an additional or amended notice of allegations may be in the offing.
You'd think that it woud come out before the August hearing. I'm beginning to wonder, FWIW, whether there will be any notice of allegations from the Talbott stuff or the allegations in the SI article.
My thoughts exactly.
I don't know anything either, but I would have thought that something would have been out by the time OSU had to respond. If not then, certainly by August 12th.
I suspect most of the SI story has been dismissed. If not, we would have seen some sort of additional suspensions to one of the current players SI named. There have also been rumors that the NCAA cleared 8 of the 9 players in the story.
Since Pryor quickly packed his things and left town, I suspect if the NCAA has found anything, they were focused solely on Pryor.
It'll be interesting to see if OSU responds to some of the post NOA stories.
Best case for OSU:
The current NOA is all there is. Penalties get handed out in Oct/Nov. Without a new NOA, the penalties should be much less than USC. OSU has time to salvage the recruiting class and hire a coach by NSD.
Worst case for OSU:
A new NOA gets sent late, the meeting with the NCAA moves out, and the entire thing doesn't get resolved until after February (with additional sanctions and implications on hiring a coach).