What? LOLOriginally Posted by JBHuskers
Something tells me that's not the first time you've uttered that phrase
What? LOLSomething tells me that's not the first time you've uttered that phrase
Watching college lacrosse right now on ESPNU, #16 Denver is just exploding and destroying #3 Duke right now. It was 6-5 Denver at halftime, and Denver has scored 4 goals in a 5 minute period to take a 10-5 lead over Duke. If Duke doesn't do something to stop this run by the Pioneers, it's gonna get real ugly and Denver is going to blow them out.
granted, its high school, but still sad.
umpire dies during hs softball game.
Damn.
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"They didn't want to put him in a body bag". Lol. Dumb kid.
They shouldn't put that in the article. First, it makes no sense. Body bags are for messes. Some guy who had a heart attack is not a mess. Second, a paramedic cannot pronounce some one dead in Texas. It has to be a doctor, medical examiner, or Justice of the Peace. Third, to put something like that in an article, particularly after quoting the man's daughter, is thoughtless, classless, and disrespectful.
Sorry, just the Funeral Director coming out of me again.
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They were quoting a player's Twitter. Placement of the quote was not their first mistake.
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Yep.
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SMU fires their AD a week after he hires Larry Brown to coach their basketball team. Oops
ESPN NCAAF - Ohio St. coach Urban Meyer acknowledges having committed secondary NCAA violations (Plain Dealer)
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Shit. Urban is a walking secondary violation.ESPN NCAAF - Ohio St. coach Urban Meyer acknowledges having committed secondary NCAA violations (Plain Dealer)
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I was actually just reading an article on this. Not that I think Meyer and OSU are clean, but some of these violations are a little suspect.ESPN NCAAF - Ohio St. coach Urban Meyer acknowledges having committed secondary NCAA violations (Plain Dealer)
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Coach Urban Meyer wishing recruit Noah Spence “Good luck” before his state championship game in December. That sort of contact on game day violates the bylaws.
— Assistant football coach Mike Vrabel used smokeless tobacco on the sidelines during games. According to the documents obtained by the paper, OSU got an anonymous tip from an area health teacher. The NCAA forbids tobacco use during games or practices.
— Football staff member Kirk Barton ordered 20 “JT” bracelets for $5 each for players to wear in honor of Tressel. Barton sold the bracelets for $15 to ensure he’d stay clear of the NCAA. It wasn’t good enough, because players had access to something not available to the general public.
— On Aug. 20, a parent of a recruit sent a text message to assistant coach Dick Tressel to ask which gate the parent should use to enter the stadium for a scrimmage. The coach responded, but texting the parents of a recruit is a violation.
— In December of 2010, five players took five recruits to a movie. The cab ride the players used, however, took them $1 to $5 over the maximum of $60 spending money.
Cheaters!
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The fact that a bunch of tiny shit like that are violations, shows the NCAA needs to die and some new entity needs to take over college sports.
Exactly, some kids parent texts me as a coach about what gate to go to and I'm supposed to ignore them. Yeah that's going to sell them on my school.The fact that a bunch of tiny shit like that are violations, shows the NCAA needs to die and some new entity needs to take over college sports.
One of them is the fact that all Urban said was "good luck"
Yep. The NCAA has COMPLETELY become blind to their original mission that they were created for, and instead spend all day creating new rules, by-laws and violations to sit there accusing schools and coaches of violating. They need to just be trashed like the BCS. Kill both at the same time and start fresh with a new bowl/playoff system and a new governing body.One of them is the fact that all Urban said was "good luck"
More of the "violations" by Ohio State (with some of the previously posted ones by psuexv mixed in) courtesy of Deadspin, each making me
http://deadspin.com/5911519/ohio-sta...o-gives-a-shit• Urban Meyer met with two high school coaches before a state championship game. While leaving the field, he told a player "good luck." That player turned out to be an OSU recruit.
• Assistant coach Mike Vrabel used chewing tobacco on the sidelines.
• Athletic director Gene Smith and alumni association CEO Archie Griffin recorded a personalized video for football recruit Ezekiel Elliott for his official campus visit on March 31. Recruiting videos are forbidden.
• The parents of a football recruit texted an assistant coach to ask which gate to enter Ohio Stadium for a scrimmage. He texted them back with the answer.
• Greg Paulus, video coordinator for the basketball team, was seen talking with players while pointing to the court. Since he's not technically on the coaching staff, he's not allowed to "coach" anyone in this manner.
• On a recruiting visit, a diving prospect's student host bought him an $8 Halloween costume for a party.
• Assistant coach Stan Drayton last July accidentally sent a text message to a recruit when he meant to send an email. Emails were permissible. Text messages were not.
• In December of 2010, five current football players took five recruits on OSU visits to a movie. NCAA rules allow each recruit $60 in spending money for entertainment. A cab ride to the movie put each recruit between $1 and $5 over budget, which the football players paid out of pocket. That was not allowed because the $60 limit was exceeded.
• The school realized that during three days of the football team's Rose Bowl trip from Dec. 26, 2009, to Jan. 2, 2010, the players received both a $15 per diem and breakfast. That pushed them over the allowable three meals of $45 per diem.
• A lacrosse recruit visiting campus for an instructional camp had his personal stick stolen. The OSU staff gave him another one as a replacement.
• A lawyer and booster for the athletics department threw a birthday party for his wife, and invited his close friends who happened to have a kid playing sports at OSU.
• A women's soccer coach tried to leave a voicemail for an academic counselor named Lindsay. He later realized he had dialed the wrong "Lindsay" in his phone, and left the message for a recruit.
• Five graduating seniors on the women's hockey team received framed jerseys and rings. The value of these gifts exceeded the allowed amount, by $4.
• A random man showed up at the tennis facility. He told a coach his daughter was a tennis recruit. The coach told him she couldn't talk to him, and he left.
Here's the link for the PDF of the official reports filed by Ohio State: http://www.scribd.com/Deadspin/d/940...caa-Violations
It's time for the NCAA to die and someone else to take their place.
How in the world is this a violation?A random man showed up at the tennis facility. He told a coach his daughter was a tennis recruit. The coach told him she couldn't talk to him, and he left.
This one I actually agree with. Namely because we're fucking stupid for somehow forgetting that wasn't a rule. Or, more likely, it's been done before and this one got reported. Why the hell would the AD and Archie be recording a personalized video in the first place? (EDIT: Just read the report and found out that what happened was that the recruit was on campus during the NCAA tournament. Archie and AD Smith were off-site and recorded a video since they wouldn't be there to meet him. Because they said his name, it became a "recruiting video" and a secondary violation. If they hadn't made it "personal", it sounds like it would have been okay. Laughable, though still inexcusable that we forgot that.)Athletic director Gene Smith and alumni association CEO Archie Griffin recorded a personalized video for football recruit Ezekiel Elliott for his official campus visit on March 31. Recruiting videos are forbidden.
But yes, the rest of the list is just laughable. Two other funny things with this to me: 1) Many (outside Ohio State) have reacted to this by saying that Ohio State should expect this many violations, just because of their size; 2) There was one often-used-in-NCAA-violation-cases lawyer who said that it's more suspicious to NOT have this level of violations reported than it is to have them. Kind of puts that whole "Ohio State has self reported X number of violations" controversy from last year in a new perspective. Somehow, having this number of reported violations is a sign that you have a good compliance department because you're reporting them. I fail to see how, since I mentally equate "compliance" with "security" I deal with at my work. A security department would not be "good" if it was reporting a lot of minor violations, rather than, y'know, stopping them.
My personal favorites so far: A) The health teacher that reported Vrabel-being-Vrabel was really irate. "Do you suspect a supervisor or management is involved?" "How about any coach, including Fickell - How can you miss it when he has a huge dip in and is spitting it on the sideline?"More of the "violations" by Ohio State (with some of the previously posted ones by psuexv mixed in) courtesy of Deadspin, each making me
B) "While reviewing [offseason football camp] registrations, Ms. Singel noticed that there were two registrations for a prospective student-athlete by the name of Ryan Moore from Fort Lauderdale, Florida ... After an Internet search of Mr. Moore's high school as well as an e-mail to Mr. Moore's parent, Mr. Rogers was unable to determine Mr. Moore's correct age." So, the kid (possibly) lies about how old he is, we trust him, and that's a violation? Plus, somehow we can't find the answer? I'm not sure which is worse.
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Damn, AFA ...
Tailback Asher Clark, Air Force's second-leading all-time rusher, has been kicked out of school less than a week before graduation as a result of an investigation into illegal drug use, The Gazette of Colorado Springs has reported, citing unnamed sources.
School spokesman David Cannon confirmed to the newspaper that Clark, a four-year starter for the Falcons, is no longer enrolled but would not comment further, referring to the Privacy Act.
According to The Gazette, the school said in January it had suspected at least 15 students were involved in illegal drug use, findings that stemmed from an academy investigation that eventually expanded to involve 31 cadets, some of whom were student-athletes.
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