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12-29-2004, 12:42 PM
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Perhaps they should go one step further and actually DISCOURAGE contact?
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I think that's exactly what they should do. The article mentions that boosters get to attend practice? What's that about? This allows them to get way too close to the players, and I think it's a bad idea. Barring anyone who isn't neccessary from watching practice would be a good first step.
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12-29-2004, 01:13 PM
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Firing someone will not solve the problem.
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In the real world it does not always matter. Just look at any NFL team or athletic team for that matter. Is the coach always the problem...heavens no but they sure seem to get fired a lot don't they. All I am saying is that there is usually a scapegoat and that is the end of it...At some point the university president and board will begin to get sick of this embarrasment!!
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12-29-2004, 01:21 PM
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Geiger: We will punish businessman
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December 29, 2004
Geiger: We will punish businessman
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BSB Staff Reports
No suite for you?
The fallout from the revelations that Columbus businessman Robert Q. Baker gave Ohio State quarterback Troy Smith improper benefits continues with OSU athletic director Andy Geiger telling The Associated Press that the university will be punishing Baker.
OSU could take away ticket-buying and suite-holding privileges from Baker, founder of Poly-Care Services, a Columbus health care company.
"We will take action, although we haven't met about that yet," Geiger told the AP.
Geoffrey Webster, an attorney for Poly-Care, blew the whistle on Baker earlier this month when he alerted OSU that Poly-Care employees saw an envelope being given to a Buckeye football player.
A Poly-Care intracompany report said that Smith received an envelope, asked what he had to do in return and was told he didn't have to do anything. Though Smith is suspended for Wednesday night's Alamo Bowl game against Oklahoma State in San Antonio, Texas, he is expected to be eligible to play as a junior next season.
In San Antonio, OSU head coach Jim Tressel said he is familiar with Baker. One of the reasons could be that he played for Tressel's late father, Lee, at Baldwin-Wallace. Baker was a running back whose senior season of 1980 was the final one for Yellow Jackets coach Lee Tressel.
"Do I know him? Yes," Tressel said Tuesday. "But I don't think he had ever traveled on an away trip with us. I'm pretty focused on other things when we're traveling, but I would have say that I don't believe he has ever traveled with us."
The Springfield News-Sun reports that Baker was going to run for a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives in 2002 before taking himself off the ballot shortly after filing. There has been enmity between Baker, a Republican, and Clark County Republican Party Chairman Dan Harkins.
Apparently, no hatchets have been buried.
"The allegations that have been made against Mr. Baker are consistent with my experience in Mr. Baker's involvement with local politics," Harkins said.
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12-29-2004, 02:29 PM
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Hey, don't go in the kitchen if you can't stand the heat! If the booster and Troy Smith didn't want the backlash, then they shouldn't be doing this bull[censored]! When are we going to start holding ADULTS accountable and stop making excuses?
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12-29-2004, 05:23 PM
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Originally Posted by blufftonbuck
In the real world it does not always matter. Just look at any NFL team or athletic team for that matter. Is the coach always the problem...heavens no but they sure seem to get fired a lot don't they. All I am saying is that there is usually a scapegoat and that is the end of it...At some point the university president and board will begin to get sick of this embarrasment!!
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Well, Bluffton, my point is that the problem needs to be fixed, and a symbolic act won't do it. Simply firing a coach or administrator won't fix this problem UNLESS they are at fault. If the problem continues, it can mean real problems for OSU. This is not about firing a coach for losing games. This is bigger than winning and losing. This affects the very existence of the program. If they fire someone and then hire the wrong replacement, they could create bigger problems than they have already.
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12-29-2004, 05:35 PM
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Originally Posted by IrontonBuck
This is bigger than winning and losing.
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Hey Stop that Were THEE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY.....
Not Wisconsin or Indiana or a 2nd rate program like them.....  |
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