You're Not Helping: Cooper Claims Compliance Was Aware of Violations
In something straight out of the Bizarro episode of Sealab 2021 (yeah, what other blog are you going to get that reference?), former coach John Cooper claims Ohio State's Compliance Department must have been aware of violations and did nothing about it:
CREDIT: WBNS-TV COLUMBUS / FOX SPORTS / ESPN“Compliance is not doing their job when this kind of stuff happens and they act like they don’t know about it. When I was coaching over there, compliance was around everywhere. It’s almost like they were trying to find us violating a rule."
Dear Ohio State: You're doing it wrong.
Edit: Come to think of it, this kind of looks like John Cooper
your tears are delicious, Columbus.
I just kept saying to myself, "Really?" That was delicious.
BTW anybody else worried that they're going to get the shakes when they can't get their 6-hour fix of Columbus destruction?
the news is so frequent and heavy right now, i'm worried there will be some serious withdrawl symptoms showing up on the board once it starts to slow. then we all know what comes next... sucking dick for osu doom news. you ever sucked some dick for osu dooms news? now that's an addiction man.
I have no idea how Gene Smith still has a job as the AD at that school down south.....amazing. If TP does not get picked up in the supplemental draft, he ahd Gene could do a reality show together. Columbus Cribs.
Because he and his compliance staff were so good at facilitating cheating while at the same time self reporting thousands of minor violations that nothing came up. It would have come out with Geiger at the helm, of course, had Clarett answered the NCAA.
tOSU still needs someone to fire after the NCAA reams them with the ruling.
listen to him begin to say, "Our rules violation program" - yes, the truth will out; it was, indeed, second to none.
your tears are delicious, Columbus.
your tears are delicious, Columbus.
It’s almost like they were trying to find us violating a rule
You don't really get 'compliance'... do you?
I thought the Ray Smalls comment was arguably pimping - relatively speaking, of course.
Faux indignation is to PR what the word "fuck," or one of its derivatives, is to a joke (or to faux indignation for that matter).
Coop was less "why is this a big deal?" and more "why should WE get sanctioned for a violation someone ELSE noticed?"
[My original comment was something along the lines of "Looks like we have another enrollee in the Ray Small School of Thinking Things Sound Better Because You Say Them Indignantly]
Can we induct John Cooper in the University of Michigan Hall of Fame?
Good Lord, how did you end up in your situation. -85,000?
Don't use the word: spartina..
Spartina : MGoBlog :: Voldemort : Harry Potter
He said it again! DID YOU HEAR HIM!?
He only said, "this piece of halibut is good enough for Spartina."
peon under the bus for the $2M coach THAT IS SUPPOSED TO SUPERVISE HIM.
Did we elect Cooper the Michigan Football Hall of Fame yet? Geez, I love that guy.
EDIT: Crap! Beaten to it by 2 minutes. Feel free to mark redundant.
Shit has officially hit the fan in Columbus.
John Cooper. Still making Michigan fans happy after all these years.
...and after all those years, sitting in the dark at 2am eating his
failure pile in a sadness bowl.
Godspeed, John Cooper, and may your justice taste better than your failure pile.
Sounds like an upstanding guy who could really help rebuild the program.
... Cooper is one of the happiest nuts in all of Buckland right now. he's reign is looking a lot better now then his replacement's.
House of Cards.
I'm lovin it.
The hilarity is getting to be too much to bear.
movie, "Hunt for Red October". Seems Coach Cooper, launched torpedoes without safeties engaged.
"You arrogant ass...you've killed us!"
This just keeps getting better
What's the odds on the Ann Arbor-Saline Road Meijer running out of popcorn during this show? 3:2?
Proof of divine creation
ONe of Nostradamus' lesser known predictions:
In 2012, she and Olivia Wilde film a summer blockbuster full of hawt girl-on-girl.
Is the Wilde-Johansen girl-on-girl the reason for the apocolypse? Anyone confirm it in the Mayan tablets?
The gif is even better in slo-mo.
OSU compliance is without peer at finding secondary violations, so you can't argue incompetance.
Just didn't find any major violations? I don't buy it.
more pictures of OSU fans crying coming to the internet near you
John Cooper Michigan mans best friend.
With his whole record against Michigan and now this, I am starting to think that Coop was a Michigan plant.
This whole saga is insane. I am proud to say that in my life, I NEVER derived happiness from the suffering of others. I am even more proud to say that that whole philosophy changed when this story started to break. I can't remember anything sports-related bringing me as much happiness as this.
"I damn well tried to cheat, but they kept catching me!"
Lloyd Carr said recently that Cooper told him, "They can fire me for losing, but they can't fire me for cheating."
Okay, this is off topic, but I just saw video of Luck Fickell on the BTN. Unless I am imagining something, he looks like Adam Sandler in Water Boy. Who is this guy? Can we take him seriously?
Very seriously. He was dl coach then Asst (to the) dc and was being groomed to be hc in two or three years.
Search his HS championship wrestling match on youtube. I don't know how that will translate to wins and losses, but he ain't no bleepin waterboy.
No ex-coach has better reason to be bitter than John Cooper.
Not only is his phenomenal record in the first 10 games of the season completely disregarded by "Buckeye Nation," but Tressel seems to be given 100 percent credit for the 2002 NC by the fans, even though almost every starter on the team was a Cooper recruit.