Posted on 12/23/2010 11:27:07 AM PST by edpc
Wednesday's news that Ohio State players were under investigation for exchanging autographs for free tattoos was good for a laugh, and for Vegas to nix the gambling lines on the Buckeyes' upcoming Sugar Bowl date with Arkansas. But tattoos and point spreads are the least of OSU's concerns today.
Five players – four of them starters, including mega-hyped 2008 classmates Terrelle Pryor, Mike Adams and DeVier Posey – will miss the first five games of next season for selling jerseys, rings and other memorabilia, putting them on ice for almost half the schedule and potentially sinking another run at the BCS Championship Game.
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"Not everybody's the perfect person in the world. I mean everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever. I think that people need a second chance, and I've always looked up to Mike Vick, and I always will."
Gotta keep it real mah brutha.
that pretty much cinches that he will be declaring for the NFL Draft
Uh huh. Right...
Can't afford to miss these guys for the big bowl game.
Better that they miss a few games against hack opponents at the start of next season.
That is, if they are even back next year.
Wonder if Hugh Hewitt will mention this on his show?
Too bad he didn’t give the money to his father and then say he knew nothing about it.. The NCAA has lost all credibility for me in their handling of the Scam Newton incident.
The NCAA is out to lunch. What would the penalty have been if all 5 have been seniors?
I know what the penalty should be - forfeiture of any and all games these 5 have participated in since the events took place apparently in 2009.
As for their ruling on the sCam Newton case, it is an absolute joke. Auburn is an absolute joke. Cam Newton is an absolute joke.
Lets either open the flood gates, or get back to playing amateur college football. It is your JOB to see that happen NCAA! DO YOUR JOB!
He also had Vick’s name on his eye-black for at least one game during the previous season. I wonder if he is involved in dogfighting.
I am sure they will take advantage of this and spend more time at the library catching up on their studies.
I’m from Ohio and went to OSU, but the football program is embarrassing. The University is known as nothing more than a football factory by most people.
How the NCAA can swallow “Cam don't know nothing about Daddy Cecil selling him for 200 grand” and then come down on these players incoherent, absurd and arbitrary.
The NCAA is FUBAR. If this violation was so egregious as to mean the loss of almost half of next season why let them play in the Sugar Bowl? If they had given the stuff to their Dads and the Dads had sold it would it be OK? Why can’t they sell their own stuff anyhow? How much money was involved, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, $180,000? Does it matter how much money was involved or is it the principle (snicker snicker)?
Just an answer on this should clear them. There is no stips on selling what you own - well that used to be until Big Ears got in the White House.
The thing that is glaring by its ABSENCE in the report is the lack of any remarks whatsoever by the Buckeyes’ coaching staff. Are we to believe that Jim Tressell and every soul on his coaching staff were blind-sided by this. Is it possible that there was NO scuttlebutt whatsoever in the locker room regarding the regular flea market these guys were operating? Was there not a hint of what was going on until the NCAA walked in and revealed it all to a “dumbfounded” Jim Tressell? Why wasn’t Tressell the one to discover it AND report it; and if it was, why wasn’t THAT part of the story?!
CBS + NBC + ABC/ESPN + NCAA = mucho $$$$$
(all sports are becoming the world wrestling federation or a hollywood production)
I hope so.
http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2010/12/terrelle_pryor_among_five_ohio.html
The five players must also repay money and benefits ranging from $1,000 to $2,500. The players will be eligible for the Jan. 4 Sugar Bowl against Arkansas.
In addition, linebacker Jordan Whiting must sit out for the first game of 2011.
Ohio State hopes an appeal will lead to a reduction in the number of games. Athletic Director Gene Smith said there were mitigating circumstances that led the players to sell memorabilia including a 2008 Big Ten championship ring; a football jersey, pants and shoes; Pryor’s 2009 Fiesta Bowl sportsmanship award and Pryor’s 2008 gold pants for beating Michigan. Smith said they were selling the gear to help their families, but the NCAA may or may not consider circumstances like that when ruling on the appeal.
Smith wasn’t sure when the appeal will be heard, so the players may not know before they are forced to make the decision in early January about staying at Ohio State or going to the NFL. Coach Jim Tressel said this might not be the best time for the players to be having a job interview on the heels of this, but if the players believe they could miss almost half of the 2011 regular season, that certainly must factor into their NFL decision.
And if players like Pryor, Posey, Adams and Herron go pro, that could impact the decision of other players considering the NFL who are not involved.
Smith and Tressel said the players did not specifically know they were committing an NCAA violation when selling the items prior to the fall of 2009. But Tressel said they probably had an inkling it wasn’t on the up-and-up. Smith said the Ohio State compliance staff made it more clear in 2009 that selling items was a violation and the players at that time realized they had broken NCAA rules, but they did not come forward.
Ohio State and the Big Ten asked the NCAA that the players be allowed to compete in the Sugar Bowl and there is an NCAA rule that allows that even with a suspension pending for next season.
I was rubbing my hands with glee till I found it was not Oklahoma State!
Bummer!
My Razorbacks are getting screwed over twice now by the NCAA’s corrupt mishandling of the Auburn and Ohio State cheaters. No worries re the univ. of the state of Ohio though, after all they are playing a bowl game against an S.E.C. team.
OSU, sadly, is just like an SEC program...no ethics.
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