Quote Originally Posted by JeffHCross View Post
I think that most (if not all) of the rules still have a place. But it's like the 15-yard facemask penalty. There's a penalty when you crank on it and a penalty when you brush it. Intent is not considered (AFAIK). I don't know that there would have been a difference between Meyer saying "Good luck" and Meyer reading him War & Peace. Maybe the latter would have been a major violation.

Secondary violations, based on this list, simply aren't even worth noting.
Which is the good thing, that secondary violations usually only result in training sessions/classes, nominal sums of money being paid back, etc. If 46 violations for Ohio State is "normal", though I'd hope any university and compliance department worth paying for would be trying their damnedest to try and stop these violations from ever happening from year to year, then I assume we'd see just as many from any other university around the nation, so thankfully the NCAA has some bit of common sense there in treating these secondary violations as just minor bumps and requiring minor things like classes and small sums money being paid back, and not trying to come down with the hammer as they do when it comes to major violations.