Posey, Herron, Hall Suspension for Nebraska confirmed by Smith

last fall one of my in-laws who is an osu told me about this under the table payment scheme run by his friend's dad's company (DiGeronimo) and I thought he was just gossiping.  Turns out it's true, and awesome.  Wish I would have been the one to spill the beans.

Until the next set of infractions comes to light.

Methinks Gene Smith doesn't know what the word "accountable" means.

Gene Smith will be lucky to be the AD at Ohio next year.  So when does the NCAA completely crush them?  These problems keep coming out, obviously they don't have control over this program and it's problems.

Be looking forward to Nebraska laying a good ol' fashioned beatdown on TSIO, especially since they're in our division, but the thought makes me smile so I have to go with my instincts.

More of the same, over and over.  I seem to recall when all of this started, OSU launched an 11 day investigation and determined that the Tats were an isolated incident, the doing of a few misguided youth.  It's quite clear that a) They have no idea what's going on in their program or b) they are always prepared to confess when caught with a smoking gun but deny shooting anybody.

Does anybody think that this leads to a LOIC allegation?

osu Documents on NCAA Investigation

Ohio...the gift that keeps on giving.  I wonder if some of these players knew they would be facing up to seven games of suspensions, whether they would have left the program and gone pro (and sat out five games).

Posey likely did not know he was being overpaid.  He received $1,050 for 21.5 hours of work.    $48.83/hour for cleaning cars and picking up scrap metal. I'm moving to Cleveland!!!!     I guess Posey doesn't get paid to coach either.

It's no longer, "O-H-I-O!" It's "UH-OH!"

tOSU is probably waiting till after the NCAA report finally comes out to fire Smith. He's gonna be their next fall guy. ...following Tressel & Pryor.

Posey and Herron should be dismissed from the program. They are obviously unethical,nd could care less about their reputation or the reputation of the school. It is about Herron and Posey and how much can they get out of the deal. If I were the AD I would dismiss them from the program for assisting in tarnishing the reputation of the school, more than once.

I hope it reads, "Always Be Committing Infractions". It will make our Big Ten lives that much more pleasant. 

Clearly, things are still out of control in the football program, and the lack of leadership and any sense of duty to the program or the  school is frankly sick. 

“We're optimistic that failure to monitor and lack of institutional control is not an allegation that will emerge," Smith said.

Now, where did I set down that big box of popcorn?  Oh, hell.  I'll just have to get some more.

send out emails, self-report or "disassociate itself" from bad boosters profiteers once the media has gottenahold of things.

It's like, 'Oh, you know about that thing we do that's illegal?  Yeah, ok, wow, we had no idea.  Mr Bad Booster, you are no longer welcome, wink-wink.

'How's that NCAA, is it good enough, can our poor athletes who need assistance play again???'

Does anyone buy ANY of this?  Does Gene Smith or Godon Gee actually believe anyone thinks they are telling the truth?  If all these continued 'infractions' keep coming to light, a LOIC and FTM have to been coming down on them.

Every other school getting caught is getting its punishment much faster than OSU and Auburn.  Wouldn't that lead one to believe that the penalties thaT osu AND Auburn get much more severe?

If they don't get hit really hard, virutally every school will cheat because the benefits so out-weigh the cost.

general unsubstantiated rumor mongering, but reading Bucknuts board and this is one commenter's post:

"the fan 97.1 in c-bus, said this basically: it was from this past summer, they said posey worked 21 hrs and got paid for 70 hrs, they were also very adament about having it on good source that this came about from t. pryor rattin them out."

would make them martyrs for the problems that student-athletes face these days.  Besides, that offense cannot possibly score more than one TD per game without those two.

How the hell is this not an institutional problem, Smith?  This shit keeps on coming out of the wood-work every month or so and he has the same B.S. excuse every time.  These fuckers are going to get a slap on the wrist because Smith and Gee are in bed with the NCAA and it's a shame.  

How on earth can a program cheat so much and get away with it? This is seriously getting out of hand. And ESPN makes little to no mention of it...

Rittenberg thinks that OSU should be charged with lack of institutional control:

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/34763/systems-failure-osu-keeps...

When they say something you have to wait a couple of seconds and them ask them what really happened, because you know anything coming out of their mouths is bullshit.

because current players let incoming players sleep on the couch/floor of their dorm room/apartment.  What more does Ohio have to do to get hit with the same? Or does the relationship with the new NCAA boss save their backside?  When are the colleges going to realize that the NCAA doesn't treat all of their members equally especially when it comes to doling out punishments.  USC must steam coming out of their ears.  Then again, they gave the NCAA the bird when they hired Lane who should be getting a show cause in the near future from his one year at Tennessee.

1 Infraction . . . 

2 Infractions . . . 

3 Infractions . . .

Well, it's a damn good thing they don't have a systemic problem down there at Ohio State...

there's no way Urban takes the job.  He'll end up at PSU, which isn't great, but better than Ohio.