OSU Buckeyes in HOT water...

[zx150]

Can't be true he wearers a tie on the sideline. Sounds like the death penalty to me.

[elnutsmalljaws]

375 violations in 10 years. I am no where near knowledgeable about the law. But I would think if somebody was busted 375 times for little old speeding tickets, or passed on a double yellow line and got busted 375 times, or had received 375 DUI arrest, that sooner or later they would have gotten in a bit of trouble. But report 375 violations to the NCAA, no matter how minor they are, and somebody is not doing their job of "Institutional Control". Whether it is the President of the University, the AD, the Coach or all of them, somebody has to be held accountable and get canned. My guess is all those victories that Ohio State had last year and the bowl money it received will have to be forfeited because the coach knew about the infractions BEFORE the season started and told nobody. He knew these kids should not be eligible but that did not stop him. Where does it all end if the school is reporting 375 violations, how many are they not reporting?

[mhall]

OSU runs the dirtiest program in the country and always has. Tressel plays that Mr Integrity BS and he's as dirty or dirtier than anybody in all of sports. I HATE those Gay sweaters to...................

[RoadToad]

I think if he knew about the violations and didn't report them then the Sugar Bowl win and Big 10 championship should be forfeited, too. But that's just me.

[elnutsmalljaws]

I think if he knew about the violations and didn't report them then the Sugar Bowl win and Big 10 championship should be forfeited, too. But that's just me.

According to the article that I linked above, he knew about it in April well before they played their first game of the season. My bet is and it should be if the NCAA has any sense at all (but we know they don't), every game that the 5 kids in question played should be forfeited and all money from the bowl game returned. This would mean that they forfeit every single game last year. The 2 game suspension was from Ohio State. The NCAA is still looking into the topic for them to hand down their disciplinary action. Sort of like UT suspending Pearl for the first few games of the SEC season but the NCAA is not done with their part just yet.

Pretty funny that the AD said he trusted Coach Jim Tressel, " IMPLICITLY". I wonder if he knows waht IMPLICITLY means?

[psprowler]

So what exactly did the kids do? Sold stuff that was given to them by the NCAA in exchange for some tattoos?

[mhall]

So what exactly did the kids do? Sold stuff that was given to them by the NCAA in exchange for some tattoos?

I agree it's a STUPID rule but a rule none the less, one that Sweater boy and his players supposively knew......''IMPLICITILY'', LOL.

[psprowler]

Rules are rules indeed. My gut tells me that Tressel is an ok guy. I'm sure we all do things (myself included) that are questionable by some folks' standards. In fact you might even get arrested if caught. But the good that you do in life FAR OUTWEIGHS the bad choices/decisions. I look myself in the mirror and know that I'm an ok dude, I'm sure sweater vest does the same. Tressel will have plenty left in his "moral savings account", even after this major withdrawal.

My opinion.

[mhall]

Rules are rules indeed. My gut tells me that Tressel is an ok guy. I'm sure we all do things (myself included) that are questionable by some folks' standards. In fact you might even get arrested if caught. But the good that you do in life FAR OUTWEIGHS the bad choices/decisions. I look myself in the mirror and know that I'm an ok dude, I'm sure sweater vest does the same. Tressel will have plenty left in his "moral savings account", even after this major withdrawal.

My opinion.

Alot of truth in your words, I'm no Saint my man...... not by a long shot. I hear what you are saying...

[elnutsmalljaws]

I think every major college basketball and football program CHEATS, to what degree is the question. Maybe the kids did not know that selling their things for money and tattoos was against the rules or not. But Tressel ABSOLUTELY knew it was against the rules and sat on it for 8 months until it came out and even then never came clean. He sat on it for another 3 months and now he got busted. He had almost a year to come clean and tell the truth but chose not to. College Sports is all about wins and losses, BOTTOM LINE. Not about graduation rates and helping teenagers become model citizens while receiving an education. Like I have said before and will say again, they are ATHLETES that happen to be STUDENTS. The term "Student Athlete" is a myth. There will be a real Santa Claus, Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny before there are real Studen Athletes playing big time college sports. If Tressel will sit on an email that would possibly suspend his starting QB plus 4 other major players on his team, what other smaller infraction would he sit on. If he won't report this what else won't he report?