Yahoo, Tattoos, and tOSU (1-year bowl ban, 82 scholly limit for 3 years)

[Gatorubet]

Seems that your tune has changed, no?

No.

Perhaps its not that we had our heads in the sand but the doomsdayers had their heads somewhere else?

You'd have to ask a doomsdayer instead of me.

 

[zincfinger]

ESPN is not made up of journalists, or even professionals. It's an "entertainment" company, not a professional news organization. There are very few, if any, professional journalism outfits remaining. Ratings are not enhanced by accurate, professional reporting of the news, so why bother?

I think the golden era you're imagining in which agenda driven amateurism wasn't the overriding factor in "professional journalism" never existed.

This is the golden era, because alternatives exist. The time was, you could read what the big boys pushed out, or read nothing.

 

[Jake]

Good to see the actions we took were enough to satisfy the NCAA, or so it appears. We will have to stabilize the coaching situation long-term so we don't keep getting hurt in recruiting. I would love to see Luke take the job and run with it. It would be cool to see a new coach, OSU alum, establish himself at his alma mater.

I don't need a "name" coach. I just want a good one. :osu:

 

[MaxBuck]

It's hard to argue with the idea that the best of all worlds would be for Fickell to have an excellent result in 2011-12 and be named permanent HC moving forward. Stability = good, so long as performance is there.

 

[Crump's brother]

Stability = good, so long as performance is there.

That belongs on my online dating profile.

 

[TresselstillownsTSUN]

The scUM fans still bitching so hard about this....

All I have to say is:

 

[JBaney45]

I don't need a "name" coach. I just want a good one. :osu:

Say what?

 

[TDunk]

Say what?

What'd you say boy?

 

[lvbuckeye]

Hey - huge pressure for the game to played full strength by everyone from our Sugar Bowl folks to your B10 Commish to the network....especially the network.

I just don't see it with the NCAA with a hand in it, as the two departments (eligibility who was involved, and infractions who was not) would not have been involved at that point.

the NCAA DID have a hand in it. my evidence? the NCAA allowed the kids to play the Sugar Bowl.

 

[Gatorubet]

the NCAA DID have a hand in it. my evidence? the NCAA allowed the kids to play the Sugar Bowl.

Well, I guess I'd have to know what you meant by "it"? Some cabal where the NCAA knew of tOSU's compliance and AD's involvement in the tat-5 coverup - - or that the NCAA agreed to expedite a ruling on their bowl eligibility given the partial story they received about the facts at that time?

Which "it" makes a difference. The NCAA was involved in the latter "it". I decline to believe that the NCAA infractions group had a hand in the former.

 

[Best Buckeye]

Considering that ESPN dumped more fuel on the fire as many times as they could I would think they would put this news on their front page.
Guess this news isn't flaming enough.....dip(mark May)

 

[Psalty]

The bias from ESPN on this has been brutal, but as others have mentioned before, it has been kept in the headlines for so long due to the attention the Buckeyes receive nationally. Here is some good evidence of this. ESPN published articles on both Tennessee and tOSU 2 days ago related to their infractions cases. The Tennessee article has 276 comments so far and the tOSU article has 3000+. Although it sucks to be the victim of [Mark May] journalism it's hard to blame them from a business perspective. Coverage of Buckeyes = page views.

 

[dav713]

The bias from ESPN on this has been brutal, but as others have mentioned before, it has been kept in the headlines for so long due to the attention the Buckeyes receive nationally. Here is some good evidence of this. ESPN published articles on both Tennessee and tOSU 2 days ago related to their infractions cases. The Tennessee article has 276 comments so far and the tOSU article has 3000+. Although it sucks to be the victim of [Mark May] journalism it's hard to blame them from a business perspective. Coverage of Buckeyes = page views.

This. And the corollary is "don't click on ESPN's bullshit articles about tOSU if you want the BS stories to stop...$ talks"

I don't avoid ESPN, but no way I'm clicking on one of those articles and bumping up their pageviews.

 

[BearBuck27]

A great piece that sums a lot of people's views here by Tony Gerdeman at the O-Zone.

A Nation Enraged, or "How People Learned To Stop Thinking For Themselves and Let Others Do It For Them"

That sound you heard on Friday afternoon was the simultaneous wailing of the collective horde of national writers as they were ceremoniously drenched with a bucket of humility, resignation and reality.
The NCAA told Ohio State that they found no new infractions and that a Failure to Monitor charge would not be coming. The opinion-givers melted into a puddle of pus and muck, all the while screaming ?What a world! What a world!?
While the ultimate sanctions aren't known yet, it is doubtful that a postseason ban will be handed down, which is apparently the one penalty that writers had been praying for. Literally.


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[jwinslow]

Outstanding article. The "purple nurple" line was classic. The Ozone & 11W have been killing it on twitter, this takes it to another level. (edited your post to include the great article title)