OSU reports 22 NCAA violations in football, bball (247 article)
From the article:
"22 NCAA violations Ohio State's football and men's basketball programs self-reported between May 1, 2017 and May 22, 2019. The athletic department reported 16 football violations and six men's basketball violations during the two-year period. The violations, which spanned from serious to absurd, were obtained by Eleven Warriors through several public records requests. The most recent request was fulfilled by the university on Monday."
The most curious for me were:
-financial aid overage (Lol, is that what they call paying players?)
-use of outside consultant (Is that what they call their bagman?),
-impermissible publicity and inducement (Does this mean it is a bad idea to show off your new car to your friends?),
-student athlete reinstatement (Does this mean that they actually require their players to play school to be reinstated?)
All kidding aside, none seemed too major, but this is also self-reporting. I don't trust the OSU athletic department to be a reliable source in regards to their own integrity.
OSU has been self-reporting gobs of minor violations ever since Gene Smith showed up. As Smith used to work inside the NCAA, I just presume he knows this is the easiest way to keep the stench off your filthy program and thus keep any actual regulation at arm's length.
The Tressel revelation and ensuing one year bowl ban, which did happen under Smith's watch, was not an accident, just the price they had to pay to acquire Urban Meyer.
100% correct. This has been Gene Smith's MO for 10 years now.
My favorite Gene Smith stunt was on November 10, 2011. Joe Paterno had been fired the day before and that story dominated the headlines, sports and otherwise.
Gene Smith seized that moment of opportunity! He chose that day to (hoping it got completely lost in the news cycle, of course) announce Ohio State was self-imposing some scholarship losses for the football program!
https://cleveland.cbslocal.com/2011/11/10/ohio-st-reduction-of-5-football-scholarships/
BFD. To the NCAA, OSU is one of the "untouchable" programs. An NCAA official could go into their locker room and find a meth lab running, and they'd still get a slap on the wrist at best.
I'm pretty sure we report minor violations too along with almost every school. It ended up costing them Micah Parsons though.
-financial aid overage (Lol, is that what they call paying players?)
-use of outside consultant (Is that what they call their bagman?),
LOL. Your ability to read the tea leaves is outstanding.
I worked in a Big 10 school’s athletic compliance office during law school, this is very commonplace. The NCAA regs are so technical, it’s almost impossible to not have any violations.
Knowing the NCAA, reporting violations is probably a violation in itself.
It's always a whole lotta nothing when you self-report, but it is interesting they admitted to it being with the football team and not like half the SEC where the dirtiest programs are the women's T&F team at Auburn while Cam Newton is walking around with a $150k watch and a pet elephant.
Yep, B1G and SEC standards are totally different.
Ah, language. What a wonderful way to obfuscate whatever actually happened that violated the rules.
Just win on the damn field already.
At Michigan, we aim to win both on and off the field. Your favorite school just aims to win at all costs. When we beat your team, it will be sweet because we are going to do it in an above board fashion. And you won’t know what to do with yourself...
Yes - Ed Martin being a good example of Michigan players winning off the field (and under the table)
"Impermissible publicity and inducement?"
I mean, when you pay good money for that marketing blitz, you expect something of a return.
Trash program
Fucking cheaters.
Shocker. And gotta think this is OSU's attempt to feign honesty in order to protect themselves from more serious violations. Because I really do find it unlikely that Day and Holtmann are recruiting like they are as new coaches without cheating
Boise state’s assistant coach buy a 79 cent hamburger for a player and they lose a scholarship for two years ....
At this point, nobody is surprised with anything shady that happens with major top tier institutions/ NCAA. Moving on.
The spewing bullshit out of Eleven Warriors right now is classic. That shithole down south is becoming paranoid and more dilunsional by each anti-OSU procrastination from the media. Got to love it ... Go Blue !!! Beat the f-ing pig farmers from O-H-I-O. Oink ? State
Surprised that they weren’t reporting 1201 violations because our recruits suck!