Stoneburner and Mewhort have athletic scholarships removed.

Definitely only temporarily, they'll be on the active roster after the Summer term. They will apparently will have to pay out-of-pocket for this term, likely six credit hours. That should leave them with a bill around $1500 each, Ohio has to be around $250 a credit hour. Highly doubt they can register unless that bill is paid. If strings have to be pulled then they will be. Expect them on the field for the first game.

This seems a bit extreme for public urination/disorderly conduct. College kids make some stupid decisions sometimes--this seems pretty benign, as these things go. I'd be surprised if they don't earn their way back on the team and into their scholarships. And rightly so.

This has the added benefit of making Urban look like he's serious about discipline (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).

That's probably like hammer is coming, and...nope you missed it that time. But we'll see. Would they be losing their scholarships during the part of the year that they don't need scholarships and then having them returned once they do? Or will they actually have to pay for something?
Hey, at least they won't be obstructing any police officers for two and a half months...

I hope for their sake they can earn that cash this summer.

So, they lose schollies for bad behavior then have the chance to get them back for good behavior? Or will performance evaluation factor into it? With these two, maybe a moot point, but this method seems ripe for abuse.

This is ridiculous. Makes me wonder if they somehow didn't buy in to Meyer's plans...

Meyer was known for having criminals at Florida, so I think this is a thinly veiled effort to make people think he's serious about discipline.  The kids will probably get their scholarships back, but hey...Brady Hoke did a similar thing to Darryl Stonum (whose punishment was more serious because he was a repeat offender), and Stonum ended up screwing up again and getting booted.

I say kudos to Meyer for trying to scare the kids straight.

Of course they will be back.  Meyer used to coach in the SEC fergodsakes!

"They can work out at the team's facility but not with their fellow teammates during the summer."

To me, that means that the chances of them being able to make a relatively seamless transition back to being scholarship athletes is pretty high, so this definitely seems like a temporary move.

Nonetheless, discipline, even if during a part of the year when a move such as this seems a bit disingenuous (given the history of Meyer and discipline), is discipline and I will give Meyer a little credit for trying to impress upon these kids that the scholarship is a privilige that can be removed (or at least  giving people the impression that this is the idea). 

Does this also mean they have to pay for school until re-instated?

That strikes me as a real, and perhaps overly-harsh punishment for peeing outside.

I know Stoneburner's parents are very wealthy (they live on the course where the Memorial Tournament is held) , so maybe this is just a chance for Urbs to look like a disciplinarian and free up a scholarship at the same time. Isn't he a Senior too? He can become the example of dedication to the team. Jake has bought in so much he has literally bought in to the program.

Edit: I guess the scholarship idea makes less sense if he is a Senior, but I'm sure something shady is happening.

I dislike OSU but Stoneburner has given his all for the team and for him to even have the threat (even if it's a weak threat) to lose his scholarship over something like this is stupid.  I'd understand if he had a DUI or was caught with an AK47 (like clarett) but for peeing on a wall?  This doesn't make me respect Urban Meyer, I hate him even more.

Suspended while no team activities are going on. LAME! I bet they are reinstated by the time conditioning and practice starts

If given the same circumstances, Hoke did the same thing, I'd think it was a good move. And in my hypothetical, if the players earned their scholarships back, I'd be happy about the situation overall. Meyer seems to be sending a message, but not being overly harsh for what seems, from the outside, a relatively minor incident compared to much that goes on. I'll give Meyer credit on this one. I hope that he cleans up the program (I'll believe it when I see it, but this looks, again--from the outside, like a positive first step). People like to talk about the respect that each team has for the other in this rivalry, but it's been difficult to have much respect for Ohio or its fan base. I, for one, would like to have a reason to give them more respect, and to also feel like we're competing on a level playing field (forgive the cliche).

They are lucky they aren't on the sex offender's list for this.