I'm like Steelerfan, I'll get used to it rather quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by cdj
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I'm like Steelerfan, I'll get used to it rather quickly.Quote:
Originally Posted by cdj
From CBS Sports:
Report: Villanova close to joining the Big East for football - http://bit.ly/NOVABe
Sounds promising.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
What did Tressel know and when did he know it?
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Ohio State coach Jim Tressel was informed that several Buckeyes players were selling memorabilia more than eight months before the school claims it was made aware of the scheme, a two-month Yahoo! Sports investigation has found.
Tressel received information that players were selling items to Edward Rife – the owner of Fine Line Ink Tattoos in Columbus – as early as April 2010, according to a source. However, neither Ohio State nor the NCAA investigated the transactions or the players’ relationship with Rife until December 2010, when the school claims it was informed of the situation by the local United States Attorney’s office.
Ohio State director of compliance Doug Archie declined immediate comment when reached Monday by Yahoo! Sports. Tressel and athletic director Gene Smith were unavailable for comment. The NCAA declined comment.
I just read that. Tressel should be suspended for a year, OSU should vacate their wins from '10, the players involved should be suspended for a year, and OSU should lose scholarships.
I agree THAT THERE SHOULD BE CONSEQUENCES but I somehow suspect that the NCAA would not go after one of their premier programmes like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by steelerfan
Why though, that is the question. If he knew of anything, something, in April yet didn't report it that means he was trying to hide it. This is a direct violation in my opinion of what the NCAA wants. They want the Universities to look into this stuff on their own before it gets blown up, that didn't happen here in this situation.
Sorry Jeff, I'm not liking this one bit.
EDIT: When I originally posted, I hadn't caught up on today's news -- only saw the initial stories this morning on the Dispatch and Yahoo.
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Tressel suspended 2 games per ESPN. BS!
That was OSU's recommendation -- doesn't mean the NCAA will agree to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by steelerfan
I would not at all be surprised by forfeiture of all of the 2010 results and/or Tressel being suspended for the entire season.
Gotcha. All I had was a text saying he was suspended for 2 games.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
I didn't like the interview one bit. I just would have liked to hear him take more responsiblity and man up for what he did and fully admit he was 100% in the wrong and let his school down.Quote:
Originally Posted by steelerfan
I agree Jeff, this is exactly what I'm thinking the NCAA hands out.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
Consider Mel Kiper waaay off of the Cam Newton bandwagon. LOL!
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...e-akili-smith/
300+ 'minor' recruiting violations, many of which are repeated versions of each other such as 'Oh, Mr. NFL Former Alum just soooo happens to be in this same hallway we're walking down, let's say hi', over the past decade should give a hint as to what OSU thinks they can get away with......and have since the NCAA has been a joke in tapping the shoulder of its' bigger money-makers. Only recently has that seemed to shift a bit (USC for example.....)....
Those falling for the saint show........really? Why did you think Tress and OSU were clean, given Tress' past and all the smoke around OSU in the past?
Who here is "falling for the saint show", Austin? Surely that was directed at someone and not just a shot against your rival, right? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by AustinWolv
Did I think the program was 100% totally clean? (like I'm sure so many programs are, right?) No, not at all. Did I think Tressel was smarter than this? Absolutely. Did I think he was better than this? Absolutely. Do I think the self-discipline is an absolute sham? Absolutely.
Jim O'Brien was fired for, in my opinion, a more humane and reasonable transgression. Two games is a joke.
I could not have said it better myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
I thought the same thing when I saw Austin's post this afternoon but was too busy to say so. No one here has said anything of the sort.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
Nobody here. Didn't imply anything near that, but rather the general media that talk him up during games and the fluff pieces that newspapers used to put out on him. It was a post about GENERAL DISCUSSION, i.e. soapbox permitted, not to pick fights with anyone here because haven't seen unreasonable homerism around here from any school's fan.Quote:
Who here is "falling for the saint show", Austin? Surely that was directed at someone and not just a shot against your rival, right?
I agree with the rest of your post by the way, except for this part:
I thought this particular case fits what I thought of him previously considering his standard answer in the past decade whenever something came up was something along the lines of, "This is the first I've heard of it....."Quote:
Did I think he was better than this? Absolutely.
I figured, which is why I threw in the ;), hoping you'd know that it was mostly in jest.Quote:
Originally Posted by AustinWolv
True, but in most cases I've been able to at least give him the benefit of the doubt that maybe it is the first he's heard of it. He definitely has an image that he has tried to cultivate, and defaults to "No comment" as much as possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by AustinWolv
If nothing else, I expected better typing/e-mailing ability than some of the examples I've seen since this story broke :D
Certainly, he has the engineer-y, computer guy look going. :DQuote:
I expected better typing/e-mailing ability than some of the examples I've seen since this story broke
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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- The NCAA threw out more than 30 Arkansas State victories in football and basketball from the 2005-07 seasons Friday, saying the school used ineligible players.
The NCAA also said that it has cut one football and one basketball scholarship for two years.
The penalties stem from the school allowing 31 ineligible athletes during the 2005-08 seasons because of a failure to meet NCAA rules on progress-toward-degree requirements. The violations were originally discovered during an internal audit, and ASU reported them to the NCAA.
The school offered to forfeit six football wins from the 2006 season, four from 2005, 15 men's basketball wins from the 2006-07 season, 12 basketball wins from 2005-06, three baseball wins from the 2006-07 season and five women's soccer wins during the 2005-06 season.
The NCAA infractions committee agreed with the self-imposed penalties for the school, which will be on probation for two years.
Honestly, I can't see how the NCAA lays down this punishment (though the school did offer it) and doesn't lay down something similar for Ohio State for the 2010 season. We shall see.
What's sad is that the person responsible for all of that, got in trouble for doing the same exact thing at Louisiana-Lafayette not more than 6 months than being hired at ASU. Unfortunately she didn't get into trouble until after she was at ASU but even then, once it came out, she should have been watched like a hawk.
If I understand correctly, it had to do with the athletes going to the advisor to make sure they had enough credits to be eligible and since the advisor rounded up on some calculations instead of down, she determined they were eligible. Had the athletes known they were in danger of being ineligible, they could have easily added a single course and everything would have been fine.
Pac-12 logo unveiled
And a terrible welcoming video for CU & Utah:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niiWy...el_video_title
What the hell did I just watch/listen to?! Gah...
I think I just had my eyes and ears raped. At least molested. :(
...if autotune and bad dancing were combined in the 80's you'd get that turd I just watched
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Originally Posted by morsdraconis
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Originally Posted by SmoothPancakes
Pretty much sums up what I was going to say.Quote:
Originally Posted by JBHuskers
I'm glad that video wasn't a second longer. I almost lost the last of my dignity, self respect, and masculinity. That was horrible.
I actually thought it was enjoyable ... then again, based on all of your comments I knew I was just going to snicker, laugh and :smh: through all of it.
Oh, and ponder the meaning behind using a female to hold the "Beavers" sign.
CDJ, for posting that you owe me 1 minute and 14 seconds of my life that I will never get back! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by cdj
I'm not even sure what to think about this.
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Ohio State and football coach Jim Tressel announced tonight that he will serve a five-game suspension for his role in the scandal that brought major NCAA violations to the university's door.
"Throughout this entire situation my players and I have committed ourselves to facing our mistakes and growing from them; we can only successfully do that together," Tressel said in a statement. "Like my players, I am very sorry for the mistakes I made. I request of the university that my sanctions now include five games so that the players and I can handle this adversity together."
Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said in a statement: "I have accepted his request and we are taking action to notify the NCAA. Until the NCAA has completed its investigation, we will not be publicly discussing the details of this case."
I'll tell you what you should think: This is Ohio States way of trying to avoid the NCAA from making it the entire season. Dez Bryant was suspended for lying to the NCAA about having lunch with Deon Sanders. What Tressel did is WAY worse. I wouldn't be surprised to see the NCAA make it more than 5 games (perhaps not til next season though). This is a smart move by them, I'm just not so sure it works. They're trying to make the case that what he did was no worse than what his players did which, IMO, isn't true at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
In short, you should think this isn't the last of this....
Oh, I don't. I haven't since it began, nor will I even begin to think it's the end until the NCAA actually rules. The 2 game suspension was a total joke. The 5 games is barely acceptable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kwizzy
Bad news for the Tarnished Domers. Per ESPN, Michael Floyd has been arrested on a misdemeanor drunken-driving charge.
ESPN's 2011 schedule has been released:
EDIT: Took the image down because it's not showing up in the post anymore. If you want to see it, use this link: http://twitpic.com/4dm69b
Of sorts. ESPN doesn't negotiate most (practically any) of their Saturday games until a week or two before the game. Which is why the only Saturday games you see on that list are a few non-conference battles in September.Quote:
Originally Posted by HWill
I know this. Those were their words, not mine: http://twitter.com/SportsCenter/stat...33903077163008Quote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross
Figured you did. Was trying to answer any inevitable questions others may have.Quote:
Originally Posted by HWill
Cool. By the way, I hope I didn't come off as an asshole when I said, "I know this". :DQuote:
Originally Posted by JeffHCross