Ohio State has self-reported 4 recruiting violations that occurred over the last few months to the NCAA
https://twitter.com/On3sports/status/1762597398734418076
I Don't expect much to come of this, funny nonetheless.
February 27th, 2024 at 6:26 PM ^
Funny how OSU got all of the transfers they could ever want during this time, and immediately self reported...
February 27th, 2024 at 6:30 PM ^
According to the article, the violations were from the end of last summer to commenting on a commitment post in January. Doesn’t have anything to do with getting their transfers this year.
February 27th, 2024 at 6:32 PM ^
Good point, I haven't looked deep into this so far, so I suspect little will come from this.
February 27th, 2024 at 6:38 PM ^
They’re minor violations that they reported months ago and have already been “punished” for. It’s simply being reported on now.
February 27th, 2024 at 8:52 PM ^
I think just about every school self-reports minor violations. I believe Iowa just reported 6 in the last month. We probably have too. And let's be honest, with the Portal and especially NIL, how the hell can there be any major violations anymore. CF is the wild, wild west show now.
February 27th, 2024 at 9:58 PM ^
Yup. This is fun for us for narrative purposes but it’s really nothing. Minor violations occur all the time at every program and they’re self-reported all the time with very little in the way of penalties.
February 27th, 2024 at 6:44 PM ^
IIRC, the violations were similar to the cheeseburgergate violations -- meeting with recruits during the dead period and other similar things.
February 27th, 2024 at 7:44 PM ^
To be honest, I don’t even think most of them are THAT serious. A coach commented on a commitment post of a recruit, two boosters took a photo with a player, and they sent a committed player an edit before they were allowed to (NCAA requires the player to at least be a Junior in high school for whatever reason and he wasn’t yet). Aside from that, the most serious is that they contacted a player who wasn’t technically in the portal but had stated his intention to enter the portal.
Fun for us for narrative purposes but it’s really a whole bunch of nothing.
February 27th, 2024 at 7:47 PM ^
You a buckeyes fan or something? That’s a lot of prose in support of that corrupt program.
February 27th, 2024 at 8:38 PM ^
Where did I support them? Because I acknowledge that the violations were extremely minor, which the NCAA (and the rule book) agrees with? Seems like a reach.
Because I hate them means I have to pretend that sending a sophomore a commitment edit is a huge deal because he’s not a junior yet, which would have been allowed per the rules?
February 27th, 2024 at 8:06 PM ^
What does it mean to send someone an edit?
February 27th, 2024 at 8:14 PM ^
Those edited photos that show them with jerseys on or most recently the graphics that Michigan sent out with the College Football 25 recruiting stuff from the new video game. Stuff like that.
February 27th, 2024 at 8:46 PM ^
https://x.com/hayesfawcett3/status/1762251117558104558?s=46&t=KBFYyyuDBE9KuWjE-WUrrg
Basically this. Someone in the OSU recruiting department created a commitment photo similar to this one for a player who had just committed. For whatever reason, the NCAA doesn’t allow this until a player is in his junior year of high school and the recruit was a sophomore.
February 27th, 2024 at 9:40 PM ^
Seems pretty equivalent to buying some kids cheeseburgers.
February 27th, 2024 at 9:55 PM ^
In-person contact with recruits during a dead period (and then providing an impermissible meal to boot) is definitely more serious than tweeting a reply to a tweet or sending an edit to a committed recruit a couple months before you’re technically allowed to.
What Michigan did are Level II violations, what OSU did are Level III. From an NCAA perspective and a common sense perspective, what Michigan did is more severe. None of them are major, but let’s at least be honest here. Don’t let your bias in favor of Michigan and against OSU cloud your judgement.
February 28th, 2024 at 12:57 AM ^
None of them is major
February 28th, 2024 at 5:12 AM ^
I quite literally said “none of them are major” in my post. That doesn’t mean what Michigan did wasn’t more severe than what OSU is self-reporting here.
Michigan’s violations were Level II violations. OSU’s violations were Level III violations. From a rules standpoint, what Michigan did was more severe. That’s a fact.
From a common sense standpoint, in-person contact with recruits during a recruiting a recruiting dead period and providing an impermissible benefit (which buying them a meal is) is more severe of an offense than replying to a tweet. Rules violations vary in severity. It’s a spectrum with three different levels, it’s not just “major or not major.”
Arguing any different is just bias and “I hate OSU” vibes.
February 28th, 2024 at 11:21 AM ^
You say that like it is a bad thing. Given the Orcs we have to deal with I'd say some bias and indignation and a general lack of trust regarding that school and fanbase is not surprising here on the "UM FB fan Blog"! Even better tongue in cheek.
It is not like anyone here is so insecure and hopped up ;) as to employ the family connections and launch an unprecedented and orchestrated PI Firm led investigation of a fellow BigTen Blue blood school. Think of the misconstrued threats and defamation emanating from said behavior that could tarnish and cause harm to young students of the NCAA. I am sure casting aspirations about whole groups of innocent people and their occupations would never occur from an institution but better safe than sorry, eh?
February 28th, 2024 at 8:55 AM ^
From a common sense perspective, I think you're splitting hairs. These are infractions arbitrarily made up by the NCAA. There's nothing inherently wrong with talking to someone at any time of the year.
February 28th, 2024 at 10:24 AM ^
I am biased and maybe it’s influencing my opinion but a recruit meeting with a couple of OSU boosters and taking a picture with them sounds as bad, if not worse than our staff feeding a couple of guys who stopped by campus unexpectedly.
February 29th, 2024 at 11:38 AM ^
From a common sense perspective, if our coach was suspended 3 games for one level 2 violation, committing four level 3 violations should be about the same. I’m sure with your defense of these very serious violations you are also calling for Day to be suspended for 3 games. Personally I think they should start investigating Day at the beginning of the season and end the investigation Friday, November 15th. They can announce Day’s 3 game suspension on Friday night before the NW game and we can all start to heal from this grave injustice.
And yes, you making excuses why Michigan’s nothing-burger violations are so much worse than OSU’s nothing-burger violations is definitely you defending OSU.
February 27th, 2024 at 10:27 PM ^
But they had Receipts
February 28th, 2024 at 4:40 AM ^
They may not sound serious but could lead to player safety issues 😉
Let’s drop the asterisk (or asteroid as auto correct prompted) on their whole season.
February 27th, 2024 at 7:14 PM ^
Oh good. This means they cheated and still lost to us
February 27th, 2024 at 10:24 PM ^
Contacting a potential portal player before they entered the portal, would be cheating. I would venture to say it is the largest cheating scandal in NCAA history.
February 28th, 2024 at 8:20 AM ^
Their violation opened the floodgates because other programs saw OSU doing this and felt they had to do likewise so as to not be left behind. OSU was the enabler for all the tampering that has gone on since.
February 28th, 2024 at 1:31 AM ^
We need to start flooding social media with claims they need to have all their wins vacated and have an asterisk on everything else. Turn everything around on the cooler poopers.
February 28th, 2024 at 6:37 AM ^
They will self-report those next year.
February 28th, 2024 at 7:27 AM ^
So, OSU did all this cheating to gain an advantage before we kicked their asses for a 3rd year in a row?
February 28th, 2024 at 8:48 AM ^
Gotta admit, they are smart. Self report the nothing burger violations so that they couldn’t possibly be committing severe violations.
February 27th, 2024 at 6:31 PM ^
Let's get Tony Pettiti on the job here. Is this possibly the new worst scandal in the history of the Big 10?
February 27th, 2024 at 6:41 PM ^
Tinpot Tony cares about player safety. Hope this qualifies.
February 27th, 2024 at 6:57 PM ^
I’d bet good money that they didn’t need to tamper to get their new mediocre starting QB
February 27th, 2024 at 8:57 PM ^
And center! Going to be funny when he has a bad snap late in the game that leads to a Michigan victory.
February 27th, 2024 at 11:34 PM ^
This seems inevitable. He'll be going up against better Grant and Graham.
February 27th, 2024 at 7:13 PM ^
I hope you're not suggesting they tampered!
Because you should just say it and not suggest it.
February 27th, 2024 at 8:34 PM ^
It's interesting that some of the violations reported seem to kinda infer that there were worse violations going on.
But the NCAA obviously won't investigate further because self reporting a few minor violations to keep the NCAA off your back as you continue to commit worse violations is a practice as old as the NCAA itself
February 27th, 2024 at 11:32 PM ^
Let's be clear: Fuck Ohio State and their whiny crybaby bitch attitudes.
February 27th, 2024 at 6:27 PM ^
Cheaters.
February 27th, 2024 at 6:34 PM ^
The yearly osu tradition of reporting minor violations to distract from their major violations happening just around the corner!
February 27th, 2024 at 9:27 PM ^
Worst recruiting violations in the history of mankind. Cooler Poopers breaking the law!!!
February 27th, 2024 at 10:57 PM ^
It's an obvious pr ploy.
"See! We're so honest we self report any violation that accidently occurs. Obviously we would never commit a serious violation"
February 27th, 2024 at 11:24 PM ^
Honestly.... their cheating is probably the only reason they were able to beat us the last few ye.... nvm.
Cheaters never win Bucks. Be better.
February 27th, 2024 at 6:28 PM ^
Off-season champions*
February 27th, 2024 at 6:32 PM ^
It's like an iceberg.
There are probably infinitely more that you didn't see that went unreported.
February 27th, 2024 at 6:38 PM ^
Just imagine if the NCAA made cooler poopin' a violation.
February 27th, 2024 at 6:40 PM ^
Obvs merits a multiple-game suspension for the HC.
February 27th, 2024 at 7:26 PM ^
That might be an upgrade for them to be honest.
February 28th, 2024 at 12:19 PM ^
Just not for The Game.
February 27th, 2024 at 6:40 PM ^
Just a reminder of one of the better stunts ever pulled by Ohio State:
On November 9, 2011, Ohio State decided to announce the self-imposition of the loss of 5 football scholarships, as regards the Robert DiGeronimo (Booster) affair.
What else was going on that particular day in history? Well, the Sandusky/Paterno story was at firestorm levels, reaching its climax with Paterno being fired at 10 PM that evening.
I'm sort of surprised they didn't wait for a 7.0 earthquake or some other scandal to release this one.
https://news.osu.edu/ncaa-ohio-state-complete-investigation-into-remaining-open-items/