Terrelle Pryor, the gift that keeps on giving
The money for Buckeye players at the charity event apparently came from TP. This should totally help his appeal of his NFL suspension, right?
http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/6969345/ohio-state-bucke…
In a perfect world, it would increase OSU's penalties that the program is so far from dissociated from the guy that he's already instrumental in additional violations. [Mr Miggle points out that this happened in February, so there's no rationale for hitting OSU harder based on Pryor's involvement.]
September 14th, 2011 at 12:19 PM ^
What a clown show the NCAA has become
OSU is clearly dirty, but I'm not even mad at them anymore.
September 14th, 2011 at 12:23 PM ^
These players should be guilty of other violations for associating with someone banned from AD association. Probably not the NCAA's jurisdiction, but OSU should have to answer (actually hard) questions about why these players weren't disciplined further.
September 14th, 2011 at 12:36 PM ^
This happened in February, long before Pryor was banned.
September 14th, 2011 at 12:39 PM ^
You are correct sir. Withdrawn.
September 14th, 2011 at 2:13 PM ^
Even better. Where in the hell did TP get the money to pay these guys considering that he was a "student-athlete" at the time?
September 14th, 2011 at 5:04 PM ^
You didn't hear? He sold a bunch of the university's shit in order to help his mom out as well as to get a sweet ride or eight for himself. He had some left over afterwards that he gave to his teammates. Now that's a leader right there. A real standup guy. Sometimes I wish Denard was more like Pryor in that sense, actually.
September 14th, 2011 at 12:27 PM ^
I actually did, and it wasn't in the OP. I didn't read the comments, though, where the link turns up--if you think I'm supposed to do that on every OSU-related post before I post something you're a crazy person.
September 14th, 2011 at 12:21 PM ^
SbB reported this a few days ago. His angle was that TP turned his buddies in.
I do like me some Buckeye tears before lunch.
September 14th, 2011 at 12:23 PM ^
TP's NFL suspension has NOTHING to do with his NCAA supsension. That's a fallacy that the media doesn't understand. Neither does TP based on his comments.
The NFL suspended TP because he "circumvented the draft" in a bad way. He didn't get the kind of stuff done he needed to, and had to "make his case" as to why he should be eligible for the supplimental draft after not declaring for the normal draft. Pretty much he went about the procedure of hiring an agent/leaving OSU/etc. in a shitty way, and the NFL suspended him for it. The NFL wants people in the normal draft, not the supplimental.
This was the NFL's way of saying "don't skip the draft and just hire an agent and think you can get into the supplimental draft scott free"
September 14th, 2011 at 12:27 PM ^
I'm sure they pulled the 5 games number out of nowhere without even thinking about his NCAA suspension, too, right?
September 14th, 2011 at 12:31 PM ^
Different percentages of the season, so it's actually less severe
September 14th, 2011 at 12:38 PM ^
But find a rationale for the number. Is there precedent? Or would they just have made it whatever his NCAA suspension was, despite the rationale they provide? My money's on the latter, not that we'll ever know.
September 14th, 2011 at 12:51 PM ^
I completely agree with JeepinBen here. This is not a carry over of his suspension, it is the NFL's own punishment for violating the spirit of the supplemental draft. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Goodell offered this to Pryor and Rosenhaus during the discussions. Or if Rosenhaus offered it himself.
TP's not going to play any time soon anyway, so the suspension is pretty moot. Oakland doesn't exactly have stars at QB, but they're far better than TP.
September 14th, 2011 at 12:51 PM ^
I completely agree with JeepinBen here. This is not a carry over of his suspension, it is the NFL's own punishment for violating the spirit of the supplemental draft. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Goodell offered this to Pryor and Rosenhaus during the discussions. Or if Rosenhaus offered it himself.
TP's not going to play any time soon anyway, so the suspension is pretty moot. Oakland doesn't exactly have stars at QB, but they're far better than TP.
September 14th, 2011 at 2:23 PM ^
It could very well be correct that the NFL suspension has nothing to do with the NCAA suspension. It is more likely, though, that the NFL is protecting its free minor league feeder system. That is why Jim Tressel isn't starting his job until serving a six-game suspension. Did Tressel try to "circumvent the draft," too?
The theory that TP's suspension has nothing to do with the NCAA suspension would be a lot easier to believe if Tressel hadn't been punished, too.
September 14th, 2011 at 5:39 PM ^
This is a bit like saying "it's a fallacy that he was forced to resign because of poor performance -- he has clearly stated that he resigned to spend more time with his family!"
September 14th, 2011 at 12:26 PM ^
The booster (Rob DiGeronimo) is on linked in. VP of an excavating company. Let the mob cliche's commence.
September 14th, 2011 at 3:04 PM ^
his boys a taste of the action. He clearly had cash coming in from all over the place.
September 20th, 2011 at 1:41 AM ^
Cleveland (AP) - A Gates Mills contractor indicted in the Cuyahoga County corruption investigation has been sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison.The U.S. Attorney's office says William Neiheiser was sentenced Wednesday on four conspiracy counts.
Neiheiser pleaded guilty last year. Investigators say he plotted to bribe then-Cuyahoga County commissioner Jimmy Dimora with free or discounted home improvements and a Chris “Beanie” Wells football jersey that drew $3,600 at a charity auction.
http://www.wtam.com/cc-common/news/sections/newsarticle.html?feed=12252…
And what charity auction might that be? Well, according to the federal indictment* of Dimora, he purchased the jersey at the 2008 Cornerstone of Hope charity auction, and was then, ahem, "reimbursed" for the purchase by Neiheiser (whose wife serves along with diGeronimo on the charity's board).
I'm glad to know that game-used OSU equipment is going to good charities...like bribing public employees to win contracts.
* http://media.cleveland.com/countyincrisis/other/dimora.pdf
(It's a long indictment--the jersey makes an appearance on page 86.)
September 14th, 2011 at 12:55 PM ^
What I am learning from all this is you can get away with anything in college football as long as you have someone "fall on their sword" who isn't on the team. This year OSU doing it, last year it was Auburn (Newton's dad). Just have your program lined up with fall guys and let the money flow. The NCAA believe whatever you tell them after that.
September 14th, 2011 at 1:35 PM ^
Everything else aside - these kids are receiving money AFTER Tatgate got exposed. If this isn't LOIC, I have absolutely NO idea what is.
September 14th, 2011 at 1:53 PM ^
Granted there is no second or third favorite, but man I love that guy.
September 14th, 2011 at 2:25 PM ^
Smells to me like TP doesn't want his former teammates talking about something...
September 14th, 2011 at 4:19 PM ^
....I would think that if OSU wants to avoid these situations in the future, they should at least contract out the payroll department so it isn't immediately apparent where the money comes from.
September 14th, 2011 at 6:21 PM ^