More Ohio Shenanigans?
Wow, how about finding loopholes for your players. Using a fund to help distressed students (those that need to get home in an emergency or medical issues) to pay for auto repairs for an athlete. Guess where the repairs took place: Auto Direct. Yes, the same place every Bucknut and his mother bought a car from.
Maybe it's just time for the death penalty and be done with it. Cue the 11W apologists.
More like jughead.
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<br>Boy, am I glad TP chose scarlett.
There's a reason why in a lot of Christian literature the color scarlett was used to represent sin. Clearly it was prophetic in nature.
super trooper night?
super trooper night?
Are we playing the repeater?
its the damn mgodroidapp.
Are we?
Playing the repeater?
Littering, and? Littering, and? Littering, and?
Say car ram-rod!!!
The average Buckeye fan must think "ethics" are those people that live in that neighborhood. Seriously, the abandonment of reason is horrifying here....
ADDENDUM: Paraphrase of this comment posted on TV10 board to incite rioting. I have a slight hangover and don't care right now.
Of course it would be an emergency.....pryor needed the car to make contact with his fence...errr tattoo artist, to unload, sell, barter, his memorabilia and gear., for cash and tattoos.
We have to admit that Pryor was at least wise to seek out people who combined services. Probably saved the school some money this way.
comes out always feels like just the tip of the iceberg
I do believe that this could be the item that puts the LOIC nail in the coffin. That or whatever the ESPN lawsuit uncovers. Love how when one OSU story comes out a deluge follows shortly thereafter.
Rats, out of popcorn.
I still can't believe that they haven't gotten with LOIC yet...
If this isn't LOIC I can't imagine how corrupt a school must be to get that tag. Especially because everything that comes out just seems like a small portion of what is really there. Sadly we will probably never know all that happened and who knew about it. And they will not be punished as severely as they deserve.
Phew.
And here I thought I would go two weeks without Ohio State being guilty of another "Major" violation.
I am setting up camp outside the NCAA compliance office and beginning a chant of "Don't puss out! Don't puss out!"
Actually I thought I saw this yesterdary but it turned out to be people in line to watch Harry Potter.
It seems as though every media outlet in the country can dig up a little dirt on Ohio State and yet their compliance department remains oblivious. The buckeyes have been taking one dong punch after another for months now.
<br>And my wife wonders why I stare at my iPhone and cackle with delight.
We keep howling for LOIC, but maybe OSU just has a backwards definition of what constitutes "institutional control." Sounds like they've had a pretty airtight grip on things for a while.
Nice that chick's way hotter than the other one that sings the Friday song.
For as shady as that looks, I doubt the compliance officer would be involved in it if he didn't know it was a loophole.
The best thing about this is that the Columbus media are actually going out of their way to dig up more dirt. I have been hoping for this forever, but especially since the Freep jihad. It looks like they are finding a lot more than 15 minutes of stretching in Columbus, too.
The $600 might not sound like much, but if the compliance officer signed off on it, there would be documented involvement of the staff in giving illegal benefits.
Besides, it's not like Pryor couldn't have gotten a "loaner" to take home.
when i saw this post at first , i thought this was gonna be posted instead
......just worded a little differently.
and JT is how they pissed in the face of the NCAA and these players still managed to play in a bowl game. They made the NCAA look as dirty as OSU. Gene Smith must be a man of high morals and character because the NCAA choose him to head up the selection committee for the Men's NCAA National Basketball Championship. IMO, OSU is a joke and the NCAA sits right beside them. The problem isn't always the kid (OSU) sometimes it's their parents(NCAA). So while most college fans get hung up on what this team(kid) or that team(kid) is getting away with, maybe-just maybe , it's time to look at the authority figures as the problem.
As bad as it looks, as long as the Big Ten is ok with it, this is perfectly legal in the eyes of the NCAA.
Here is the documentation on the "Student Athlete Opportunity Fund".
Car repair fall under?
This connects the final dot to Gene Smith's door. Because, there is no chance Auto Direct is coincidentally the beneficiary of all the largess. The dots spell LOIC, and lets me know Gene Smith not only was a serial endorser of Tressel's previous "unacceptable" violations, but an inventor of new transgressions in a sort of who can out-do whom endeavor. No doubt the previous A.D. felt the pressure exerted by the popularity of "Notorious J" (Tressel), and decided he had enough. So, in comes "Biggy GS" too smart by half.
There would be universal outrage about all the circumstantial evidence at this point; except for the types who believe the Mafia does a lot of good works and desevres at least some support from Ohio High School Coaches whose "Athletics" programs may have benefitted significantly from donations, recruits, or bowl appearances.
If this were all nothing but perfume, one would buy one bottle, then dilute it for the rest of your life. You can't get rid of the smell, and the scent grows stronger the more you leave it on without washing it off thoroughly.
On second thought, my apologies to the Mafia; the Mafia does not nor has it ever purported to be "Molders of Men".
If this happened in April, the NCAA should see this as an absolute spit in the face, an "I dare you to punish us for this", if you will. This snowball was in full "roll" effect and the investigation well underway when they were still giving TP money. I hope the NCAA takes this into consideration next month.