Ohio State football: Hyde dismissed from team, sources say

The Columbus Dispatch ^ | 7/22/2013 | Tim May

[wbill]

is willing to do the right thing and enforce discipline on its players

There must have been no way to kick it under the carpet.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Hyde dismissed from team, sources say

But can Jeckyll hit the open hole as consistently? :)

[VideoPaul]

But look at Notre Dame. Players are getting into scrapes there and “the Program” which runs South Bend, sweeps it under the rug. Nobody Saw nuthin’. The Notre Dame football program KILLED A GUY and paid a 40k fine. Notre Dame makes that much in Pepsi sales at ONE home game...probably by halftime. Look at Penn State. It took an epic scandal which became national news for that culture of the university being life support for “The Program” to change.

What has happened today needs to happen over and over and over again. Will it? Will the people who run “The Program” at any given school who wants to become bigger than it is now start cherry picking strong players who can’t behave just so they can be a bigger program? Will the NFL start to reject those who engage in thuggery out of hand?

That would be nice, and would turn football back into a game of intellect and honor, a game played by gentlemen where strategy is more important than street violence in pads and helmets.

Do I think that the people in the sport have the capacity for being gentlemen warriors and using their brains? Absolutely, I do. But I don’t think that will happen until a major culture change forces them to. Perhaps this is the start of that change.

[Resolute Conservative]

Football is nothing more than modern gladiator sports. Majority of the players couldn’t get a job at McDonalds and if not for football wouldn’t be anywhere near a college. Start enforcing an actual academic standing for one, that might help.

Do away with signing days and other stuff. Make these kids pick colleges like anyone else does and show up ready to pay for it yourself. Try out for team, if you make it and are a star, then you get your scholarship.

[AppyPappy]

It would probably surprise you how many players don’t get on a team because they mentally can’t hack it. I am a HS official and I hear coaches talk all the time about players who can’t remember plays. No matter how well they do, they’ll never get to the next level.

Side note:
Professional wrestler George the Animal Steele played football for Michigan State despite the fact he could not read or write at the time due to dyslexia. He later got a Masters degree and retired as a teacher.

[ken5050]

This season I want Buckeyes to go undefeated again, then lose in the BCS championship, about 45-3 to whatever SEC team they play..

[jagusafr]

“I got thrown out of a bar in New York City...” Ron White

[Deadeye Division]

The school press release says Hyde was suspended, not dismissed. Yet.

[oh8eleven]

I’ve jested ... team members have to be sprung on weekend release.
There's truth in what you said ...

[MotorCityBuck]

Meyer gave him the gun. Come on man! /s

[nickcarraway]

If they get 2 national championships out of it, I don’t think they will mind. If I’m not mistaken, Meyer is the most successful coach in the last 10 years, except for one in a neighboring state?

[nickcarraway]

If they get 2 national championships out of it, I don’t think they will mind. If I’m not mistaken, Meyer is the most successful coach in the last 10 years, except for one in a neighboring state?

[nickcarraway]

If he’s guilty, he killed a person/people while he was a pro football player. Does that mean he killed people as a college athlete, or he was building up to that?

[Lakeshark]

Urban is very good, but Most would say Nick Saban was the most successful coach in the past ten years and I'd have to agree.

If Urban doesn't get a national championship game this year, he will likely be turned on by Ohio, this will be his easiest schedule ever, he will only play two teams with a chance of beating them. I'm betting he won't go undefeated even with this kind of schedule.

[nickcarraway]

Nick Saban = the coach I referred to in the neighboring state. Part of me wants to think he’s gotten lucky, but, any way you stack it, if you win 4 national championships in 10 years (at 2 different school) you’ve got a record that can’t be argued with.

[nickcarraway]

Nick Saban = the coach I referred to in the neighboring state. Part of me wants to think he’s gotten lucky, but, any way you stack it, if you win 4 national championships in 10 years (at 2 different school) you’ve got a record that can’t be argued with.

[Lakeshark]

He was pretty lucky at LSU, but he’s built an incredible program at Alabama. I don’t care for him particularly, but I believe their second string would have been ranked in the top 5 for the past few years..........

[vetvetdoug]

I played for a small college in the Oklahoma Conference back in 1972 that took the players that were kicked out of OU for criminal offenses that Barry Switzer couldn't cover up. They were thugs and drug addicts. They were also socially dangerous. I quit and went to another college. A few years later the school dropped the football program after too many of the players got into major trouble with the law and continually embarrassed the university.