more buckeye suspensions
jordan hall, corey brown (don't know which one) and travis howard are out on saturday vs. akron for taking impermissible benefits. link coming soon.
*[edit] - now with link: http://brett-mcmurphy.blogs.cbssports.com/mcc/blogs/entry/29532522/3167…
September 1st, 2011 at 6:05 PM ^
September 1st, 2011 at 6:13 PM ^
OSU Compliance amounts to 8 people standing hand-in-hand in a circle with their eyes closed tight and their heads bowed believing with ALL OF THEIR IDEALS that if they only WISH REALLY HARD that players will not do anything wrong.
"C'mon y'all we can do this! We have the power THIS TIME! Someone just didn't want it enough... and it mighta been me cuz I was kinda thinkin 'bout cupcakes... I'm sorry y'all. Now let's try REAL HARD this time. Like that kitten in the wall, let's HANG IN THERE!"
September 1st, 2011 at 6:16 PM ^
...turn yourself in for jaywalking while your safe is full of money you just robbed from a bank.
September 1st, 2011 at 6:16 PM ^
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why almost everyone schedules a cupcake/baby seal as the first game.
September 1st, 2011 at 6:33 PM ^
HALOL!
September 1st, 2011 at 6:36 PM ^
Absolutely astonishing. The NCAA has to slap them now. They HAVE to.
September 1st, 2011 at 6:57 PM ^
So, They attended a Breast Cancer Awareness event. It appears they received at gift bag that included breast cancer awareness t-shirts, mouse pads, etc. Probably the same gift bag most participants received at these type of events.
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<br>This level of cheating is f'ing unbelievable. If it wasn't for shit like this Michigan would have been 10-0 against Tressel.
September 1st, 2011 at 11:22 PM ^
Apparently, their bags also had $300.00 in cash as well as coupons to Fine Line Ink for 100% off the price of a tattoo with their first memorabilia donation.
/s
September 1st, 2011 at 7:22 PM ^
September 2nd, 2011 at 12:58 PM ^
He is the 2nd string safety, hence backup. Two deep means the starter and his backup at that position, not the two deepest players on the defense.
September 1st, 2011 at 7:32 PM ^
since suspending 10% of the team isn't helping the secondary market at StubHub, in order to further heighten interest in this first game, OSU will be lining up 5 yards behind the line of scrimmage and all backs will play with one hand behind their back.
End of 2010 Massey BCS ratings:
- 281. Akron (lowest of the 120 FBS schools)
- 8 Junior Colleges were rated higher.
- Carroll (MT), NAIA was at 63, and another 9 NAIA schools were rated higher than Akron.
- 15 D3 programs were higher, with Wisconsin Whitewater at 81.
- 46 D2 teams were ranked higher than Akron with MN Duluth at 36.
- EMU was at 216.
- Appy St. was at 83.
- Michigan was at 39.
September 1st, 2011 at 8:55 PM ^
that will show em!
September 1st, 2011 at 9:08 PM ^
im sure the Akron players are good students and are good citizens in the community!
September 1st, 2011 at 10:37 PM ^
The compliance office probably, no definitely, didn't discuss those extra benefits with anyone.
In case your cup of schadenfreude wasn't full, you can get topped off over on 11 warriors.
September 2nd, 2011 at 1:11 AM ^
but nothing will happen. Tsio gets away with it again.
September 2nd, 2011 at 5:28 AM ^
I am the head of compliance at a trust company, and compliance isn't a set of rules that you read, it is a state of mind. If you hire (recruit) people and train them in not only the rules, but why you follow them (in my case the regulators will shut you down, and in a college's case, the team will suffer and the recruit will suffer), there should be few, if any problems. At tOSU, they don't teach them the whys of the rules, and then there is little or no consequence to violations. That is the definition of a lack of institutional control. I would be fired as compliance director if we had the series of problems that are going on in columbus.
September 2nd, 2011 at 10:03 AM ^
I am a compliance consultant that actually goes to companies that are having problems with the FDA. The hardest part of my job is not the science or systems required to institute compliance, its changing the culture of the organization. The companies that actually want to change the culture roll heads or send their senior personnel into "refirement." If nobody loses their job after severe compliance issues resulting from the regulatory action from the principle enforcement agency, you can bet they don't take it seriously. Apply that to OSU and this recent recidivism and any lingering doubt you could have about their compliance office should evaporate.
There's nothing more frustrating than trying to help someone who doesn't want to help themselves. But hey, I guess that's why they pay me, and I still get to leave the place with my integrity.
September 2nd, 2011 at 11:21 AM ^
...but not so much on the implications of this particular instance. Even if they really were trying to change the culture, you'd see this kind of incident for a while as some people are slow to get the message.
My suspicions, based on some conversations I've add with an OSU alum (former player) and some rumors that have been going around, is that the reason heads haven't already rolled is that the changes contemplated are structurally deeper than just swapping out personnel. Gee's had no control over the athletic department--he as much as told us that at the presser--and that's going to change. If they're thinking about not just firing Smith but instead eliminating his position altogether, it would explain why things are going slowly.
Or maybe I'm wrong and the cynics are right. Time will tell....
September 2nd, 2011 at 9:01 AM ^
I throw up in my mouth a little every time I hear or read the term "Buckeye Nation". If there really were a "Buckeye Nation" it would be bankrupt, set on fire, and dogs and cats would be living together in the streets.
September 2nd, 2011 at 1:18 PM ^
I just call it Blackeye Nation. The Cleveland Plain Dealer did it the day after Tatgate broke.
September 2nd, 2011 at 9:18 AM ^
as if OSU is doing everything right. Just like the billion other self-reported secondary violations. OSU says "See? We're doing compliance and stuff!" And the NCAA, not being able to put two and two together, take each one as an individual violation rather than a problem that goes deeper, when even a monkey could see that LOIC is more likely than isolated, independent violations. Sure, once in awhile one player goes rogue and goes against rules...but when you start talking about enough players to fill out a starting lineup receiving some sort of improper benefits...the problem runs much deeper than that. Clearly, they didn't get the proper lesson at the beginning of the year. Isn't that the very definition of LOIC?
But the NCAA apparently doesn't care.
September 2nd, 2011 at 10:00 AM ^
This is something of a plus for me, as out of pure orneriness I chose Akron in a Pigskin Picks. I will still need an act of God, of course, to make my pick come true, but I now have one more atom of hope.
September 2nd, 2011 at 10:57 AM ^
denard doesnt have cable