Our response vs. TSIO response to the media

Ohio State fans are really focusing on the Pryor handouts, and whether it's really the end of the world that a guy gets to benefit from his talents. They also feel that losing Tressel is the worst thing in the world, and therefore more than enough payment to rectify anything.

The general Ohio State misconception is that they're oblivious to the program's role in covering up, and that they failed to act many times to properly regulate themselves. NCAA is a self-regulatory system, therefore Ohio State's defensive posture is basically like having the investigatory officer playing defense attorney instead.

The problem is undermining NCAA's easily underminable justice system. It's the cars since 2002 that never got investigated, and the 10-day faux investigation that couldn't turn up from its own people what SI and ESPN reporters found in days. It's the equipment manager looking the other way as tens of thousands of dollars of stuff disappeared from the equipment cabinet and appeared, signed,  in Rife's window. It's thinking that Tressel lying to the NCAA and then having the chutzpah to clear the players for the bowl game when he had known it all year was worth a two-game suspension and that should be the end of it.

It's not that Pryor sold autographs -- it's that the school knew all of this was going on, facilitated it, and still think they can walk away from this without giving the NCAA any more than the NCAA had in December.

Remember when the practice thing hit for Michigan, the original report was based on claims every college athlete at every school under every coach will make: the "optional" practices and workouts etc. are never really that "optional" if you want to get on the field. But our Athletic Department, knowing full well that they were getting put on trial for a speeding ticket, went balls to the wall to turn up the unsigned practice reports and simulated footballs with towels and how the confusion and decisions were made about warmups counting, and then after turning in a report far longer and more comprehensive that Ohio State's, proposed sanctions on itself that more than doubled any positive effects gained. A better example is probably the Fab Five, where Michigan itself went out and found the most damning evidence, including reporting damnable things nobody else ever found -- which is the expectation for these things, firing their head coach with only scant evidence he knew about any of it, and proposing flaggelatory punishments upon its program.

Getting back to Columbus, there isn't supposed to be a 2nd investigation after the first. The school is supposed to do as Michigan did: scrounge every corner and act as its harshest investigator, turning in a massive, comprehensive report all the stuff the original accusation didn't find. I can't tell what NCAA is doing because they're more than capable of doing an extra sniff just to placate the flabbergasted public then calling things clean. Or maybe this second investigation is looking directly at the department because they're as convinced the AD and president are playing defense as everyone over 4th grade who doesn't live in Ohio is.