Report: "Ohio State Should Create Compliance Office...
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)—Consultants have recommended that Ohio State University hire a vice president to oversee a new office responsible for monitoring compliance with rules and regulations in the wake of its football program’s NCAA infractions scandal.
So...the recommendation is...having another compliance office? Because the other one worked so well. Just...sigh. I quit.
In other news, water is wet...
February 9th, 2012 at 10:19 PM ^
all I can say is wow why is this not in place already?
February 10th, 2012 at 8:14 AM ^
February 9th, 2012 at 10:20 PM ^
Who cares. Lets worry about us, not them.
February 9th, 2012 at 10:25 PM ^
If they give this job to Chris Spielman and it gets him out of the booth, then I am all for this .
February 9th, 2012 at 11:47 PM ^
That would actually be a great hire for them. You know he'd cover everything. Deepest to deepest.
February 10th, 2012 at 12:02 AM ^
Pretty sure you mean deep as the deepest, but yea. Point still stands.
February 10th, 2012 at 12:55 AM ^
Derp as the derpest?
February 10th, 2012 at 3:17 AM ^
I'm pretty sure he means deepest to deepish.
February 10th, 2012 at 9:25 AM ^
February 10th, 2012 at 9:31 AM ^
Deepak loves deepdish?
How existential of him...
February 10th, 2012 at 10:12 AM ^
as time wore on, I realized that he actually DID know a thing or two about the game. With any other commentator, like Dakich in hoops, eventually I would have developed a grudging admiration. Spielman just continued to drive me crazy.
February 9th, 2012 at 10:27 PM ^
to back out of the Akron position?
This seems ideal--at least until the job heading up the Ohio Lottery comes open.
February 9th, 2012 at 10:28 PM ^
Don't they already have a complience office? What difference would a new VP make? Their real problem was obviously the original complience staff itself. If those people were doing their jobs to begin with then Ohio wouldn't have had the problems they experienced
February 9th, 2012 at 10:45 PM ^
This may be the first time my work has showed up as an avatar. This is fun.
February 9th, 2012 at 10:48 PM ^
the OSU compliance office is part of the athletic department and is headed by an assistant AD. Putting a VP in charge of compliance gets it out of the control of Smith (or Meyer or whoever's actually in charge of the department).
This is consistent with Gee's moves at Vanderbilt; I suspect it means the Trustees are finally seeing things his way and are going to give him direct control of athletics. Smith isn't going to be fired; his position is going to disappear.
February 9th, 2012 at 10:30 PM ^
If they do make another compliance office, they had better hope Urban Meyer does not dismiss them.
February 9th, 2012 at 10:32 PM ^
Well, since the current staff is only good at reporting secondary violations, they need a new VP to chart a new direction. Like maybe actual compliance?
Naaahhhh.
February 9th, 2012 at 10:37 PM ^
This new compliance office will make sure the old compliance office is complying. Soon, a third compliance office will be created to make sure the second compliance office is doing its job.
February 9th, 2012 at 10:44 PM ^
Ah, the consultants were working for the Department of Redundancy Department.
February 10th, 2012 at 2:06 PM ^
they have to hire a consultant to make recommendations about what use to make of the prior consultant's recommendations.
February 9th, 2012 at 10:35 PM ^
February 9th, 2012 at 10:53 PM ^
Well obviously they need one compliance office per coaching staff.
February 9th, 2012 at 10:56 PM ^
Urban keeps his crank in his pants.
February 9th, 2012 at 10:59 PM ^
Would another one really help? This is Ohio for god's sake.
February 9th, 2012 at 11:17 PM ^
is an attempt to create an important sounding position so people think something has changed at OSU.
vomit
February 9th, 2012 at 11:18 PM ^
compliance officer, to monitor their current compliance staff? if so, i would really recommend hiring a VP to watch the VP they hire, to watch the compliance staff....
February 9th, 2012 at 11:48 PM ^
Where do I apply for this job?
February 10th, 2012 at 12:17 AM ^
Something about closing barn doors or possibly horses getting out.
February 10th, 2012 at 12:47 AM ^
Let's pile our bureaucracy load just a little higher. Bee-Watcher-Watchers are just what the AD needs to solve its corruption problems.
February 10th, 2012 at 6:36 AM ^
has a monopoly on a misaligned organizational charts. Control/compliance was reporting to the people they were supposed to be controlling. I can think of plenty of private-sector examples of this, like a mortgage company having its head of underwriting report to the head of production (yes, this was done).
February 10th, 2012 at 9:19 AM ^
the tail often wags the dog. "Underwriting guidelines? Screw that, we gotta keep the nubers up. Put 'em on a SISA and fill out the 1003 so it says they make 6k a month between their penison and social security"
/jargon'd
February 10th, 2012 at 9:40 AM ^
...that this arrangement is SOP in university athletic departments?
February 10th, 2012 at 1:57 AM ^
Entities realizing OSU lacked institutional control:
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Tressel -
OSU Players -
Investigative Journalists -
Mgoblog -
Press -
Most Everyone -
OSU - NCAA
Hmm, there's only one left...
February 10th, 2012 at 3:06 AM ^
February 10th, 2012 at 7:33 AM ^
10,000 mgopoints for infiltrating OSU compliance department with a tape recorder.
February 10th, 2012 at 8:26 AM ^
...but this is the funniest news I've seen all year. This is like saying the Freep is going to create an ethics board.
February 10th, 2012 at 8:29 AM ^
The NCAA sanctions haven't affected football recruiting @Ohio, but look at the class they've put together to replace Buford and Sullinger with the NCAA sniffing around(2012 class of 0). Coincidence? I think not.
February 10th, 2012 at 9:24 AM ^
BRIAN: Are you the Ohio State Compliance Department?
REG: Fuck off!
BRIAN: What?
REG: Ohio State Compliance Department. We're the Department of Ohio State Compliance! Ohio State Compliance Department. Cawk.
FRANCIS: Wankers.
BRIAN: Can I... join your group?
REG: No. Piss off.
BRIAN: I didn't want to sell this stuff. It's only a job. I hate the NCAA Rules as much as anybody.
DEPARTMENT OF OHIO STATE COMPLIANCE: Shhhh. Shhhh. Shhh. Shh. Shhhh.
REG: Stumm.
JUDITH: Are you sure?
BRIAN: Oh, dead sure. I hate the NCAA Rules already.
REG: Listen. If you wanted to join the D.O.S.C., you'd have to really hate the NCAA Rules.
BRIAN: I do!
REG: Oh, yeah? How much?
BRIAN: A lot!
REG: Right. You're in. Listen. The only people we hate more than the NCAA are the fucking Ohio State Compliance Department.
D.O.S.C.: Yeah...
JUDITH: Splitters.
D.O.S.C.: Splitters...
FRANCIS: And the Ohio State Bureau of Compliance.
D.O.S.C.: Yeah. Oh, yeah. Splitters. Splitters...
LORETTA: And the Department of Ohio State Compliance.
D.O.S.C.: Yeah. Splitters. Splitters...
REG: What?
LORETTA: The Department of Ohio State Compliance. Splitters.
REG: We're the Department of Ohio State Compliance!
LORETTA: Oh. I thought we were the Bureau of Compliance.
REG: Compliance Department! C-huh.
FRANCIS: Whatever happened to the Bureau of Compliance, Reg?
REG: He's over there.
D.O.S.C.: Splitter!
February 10th, 2012 at 10:12 AM ^
February 10th, 2012 at 10:52 AM ^
He has a wife, you know. You know what she's called? She's called... 'Incontinentia'... Incontinentia Buttocks.
February 10th, 2012 at 12:32 PM ^
Gee to consultants recommending the new compliance department: "Get a life"
February 10th, 2012 at 12:48 PM ^
This was Gee's idea (see his elimination of the AD position at Vanderbilt, with athletics folded into extracurricular student activities).
You bring in a consultant to give you the cover of expert opinion to do what you wanted to do anyway. Since the recommendations are perfectly aligned with Gee's past M.O., I think we can assume he was behind the hiring of the consultants.
February 10th, 2012 at 1:01 PM ^
But who's watching the watchmen?
February 10th, 2012 at 1:27 PM ^
a compliance office:
http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/compliance
Second, what the fuck is this VP position going to do that the existing compliance management team and staff are not doing?
And if the existing compliance team is not doing that work, but the newly created staff will, then why are Ohio taxpayers and students funding it....twice???
Kind of dumb waste of valuable resources if you ask me. But it's high in the middle and round on both ends, so there you go.
February 10th, 2012 at 1:52 PM ^
when you used the phrase "valuable resources" in reference to OSU's compliance management/staff.
February 10th, 2012 at 2:02 PM ^
Why waste valuable resources on compliance when you could upgrade everybody's test drive vehicles?