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01-31-2004, 08:20 PM
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My favorites are the posts asking that Holbrook be fired. I believe some of these folks actually believe the University is secondary to the athletic program and have no idea that the research budget alone at OSU dwarfs the budget of the entire athletic department. I wouldn't expect Karen Holbrook to even be briefed about such a situation.
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01-31-2004, 08:40 PM
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The best post is the one saying "this could be a turning point in Ohio State football history. This will kill OOS recruiting" or something like that. Talk about melodramatic. Recruiting has and always will be filled with stuff.
Here is a touching story from our friends up north. Doesn't seem to have destroyed their program or OOS recruiting:
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01-31-2004, 09:34 PM
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01-31-2004, 11:36 PM
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FWIW- I just heard the sports report on CH4 and they did discuss the Morgan story. They said his admissions have been cleared up and he has been re-offered. But Morgan is not sure he wants to be a Buck anymore and is leaning to NCST.
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02-01-2004, 12:07 AM
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Originally Posted by Buckskin86
FWIW- I just heard the sports report on CH4 and they did discuss the Morgan story. They said his admissions have been cleared up and he has been re-offered. But Morgan is not sure he wants to be a Buck anymore and is leaning to NCST.
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I am not normally a conspiracy theory person because many times I have a difficult time jumping from A to S by skipping the intervening letters. This case, however, does intrigue me. We have a young man who has been through hell and back in his life, who sustains what many people thought could be a career ending injury as a result of an auto accident, who is supported in his rehab attempt solely by OSU for all practical purposes, who reaches a point where he is now ready to participate in track, and who is conveniently visiting Raleigh on account of an error committed by his high school. What bothers me about the high school is that out of the blue appears this top 50% of the class admissions criteria that is only mentioned in the FL press - not in official OSU documents. And, as everybody is aware of, OSU cannot comment on any aspect of this adventure. I smell a rat in Raleigh with contacts in FL. I know mistakes are made - this happened last year to Ira Guilford - but Guilford and his associates in NJ did not come out of the blue with some wild admissions criteria to justify an anger at a university that becomes a convenient excuse to attend another university. Just my thoughts.
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Based on the latest edition of the Palm Beach Post, I should continue to refrain from subscribing to conspiracy theories. It appears from this new article that Ohio State admissions has once again decided that Morgan should not be admitted to OSU based on the fact that he is not in the top 50% of his high school class. Something isn't right here - there is nothing in the formal written admissions criteria requiring a high school student to be in the top 50% of the high school class. Hopefully somebody at OSU will address this issue.
Morgan's Admission Denied a Second Time
OSU Admissions Criteria For Student Athletes
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02-01-2004, 08:56 AM
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http://www.1460thefan.com/tf.php?sto...201-E3-01.html
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But a source close to the OSU program said that might have been an unfortunate misrepresentation, that in fact the Buckeyes saw themselves approaching a possible overcommitment situation on signing day and wanted to cut Morgan free while he still had a chance to catch on somewhere else.
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02-01-2004, 09:33 AM
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This is either irresponsible behavior by the staff or irresponsible journalism.
Just what is "a source close to the OSU program"? Folks are speculating all over the place on what caused this. It can't be that hard to find a current or former player who would 'speculate' the class is getting full as an explanation without evidence to back that up as a motive.
Latest I read was that the wrong transcripts were processed by OSU.
It is simply incomprehensible to me that Jim Tressel would sit down with his staff and say "This kid is solid academically but let's pretend he isn't and make up a story so we have room for Dennis Kennedy." I would have a hard time believing Phil Fullmer would do that let alone Jim Tressel.
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02-01-2004, 09:49 AM
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If in fact the staff told Morgan that they did not have a scholorship for him and offered a grayshirt opportunity, and you consider that unethical, then the recruting of Todd Boeckman must have been unethical as well. As I recall, he was originally offered a scholorship with no strings and later offered to grayshirt.
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02-01-2004, 10:16 AM
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I am wondering about this Morgan situation. If he indeed has a 3.25 GPA, but is in the bottom 50% and has an SAT score of 810 or whatever is being bandied about, I would really question the school's grading systems.
If this stuff is part of the admission criteria, it is there for a reason. Of course, if his SAT is above 1000, then different story.
Big deal here is the fact that they couldn't tell him this earlier. But this seems like the first year for this admissions board and it seems like there are some bugs to work out. That is the stuff I am concerned about more than the criteria.
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