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

[CHU]

There should be bets on what story 10TV will come up with or release Friday regarding Ohio State (past two Fridays they have and previous Fridays before that). It's like clockwork.

"Our sources say Jim Tressel ate three grapes at a local Kroger and didn't pay for them, reported by 10TV's Paul Aker."

 

[TGC OSU'62]

There should be bets on what story 10TV will come up with or release Friday regarding Ohio State (past two Fridays they have and previous Fridays before that). It's like clockwork.

"Our sources say Jim Tressel ate three grapes at a local Kroger and didn't pay for them, reported by 10TV's Paul Aker."

Dispatch introduces new Sports Dept. Reporter - NANCY GRACE!

Nancy interviews a life-long friend of JT:
NG: Have you ever heard JT cuss?
LLF: Maybe twice in the 58 years I've known him.
NG: There you have it, folks - JT has cussed repeatedly!

 

[Moose]

I was elated to hear the good news. Its great to know the haters are cussin' under their breath!! Ha!

Moose

 

[Gatorubet]

interesting that he didn't agree with the NCAA in letting them play

Sacrilege, I know - but there are some outside of tOSU fan base who believe that Tressel was being - um - disingenuous in some of his answers during the interview.

Perceptions going in determine conclusions going out I guess.

 

[Pheasant]

All in all, I'm very impressed with the job that Gene Smith did in successfully guiding the school around a failure to monitor AND a lack of institutional control accusation by the NCAA. Doing that alone should get him AD of the Year again.

Yeah, Smith's great. When Geiger was at the helm we had a borderline sociopath try to get the school/program in trouble with the NCAA and fail miserably. With Smith at the helm we have this off season. I have an award for Smith, you can present it to him.

 

[jlb1705]

holy giant image, batman.

 

[Crump's brother]

holy giant image, batman.

Hope that's not actual size.

 

[Psalty]

http://www.elevenwarriors.com/

Third story down currently

We are now listed as 11-1 last year... in the Big Ten.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/standings

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

that must have been a rewarding google image search.

 

[Gatorubet]

We are now listed as 11-1 last year... in the Big Ten.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/standings

That same site has FSU winning 7 games in 2007 - and all of them were vacated. Lots of inconsistency.

 

[Magua]

That same site has FSU winning 7 games in 2007 - and all of them were vacated. Lots of inconsistency.

There was an article posted on here from a columnist who did the work for every football/basketball program that had to vacate wins going back to however far ESPN's standings go back. Right when OSU vacated 2010 ESPN changed our W/L record damn near IMMEDIATELY. The guy went back and screenshotted every other programs standings for year in which wins were vacated and of the 6 or so he showed tOSU's 2010 season was the ONLY one with fixed records reflecting vacating wins. It appears ESecPN decided to switch one teams records back instead of correcting the other 6 they were called out on.

 

[Coqui]

We are now listed as 11-1 last year... in the Big Ten.

http://espn.go.com/college-football/standings

A few days back we weren't. It made it's rounds pretty quickly. I'm assuming eSpin got too much flack for not being consistent (or a rogue programmer)

 

[BUCKYLE]

Sacrilege, I know - but there are some outside of tOSU fan base who believe that Tressel was being - um - disingenuous in some of his answers during the interview.

Perceptions going in determine conclusions going out I guess.

Thanks for pointing that out, numbnunts. There are some outside of the UF fan base who believe Timmy used circumcision as an excuse to suck off little Filipino boys. There are some outside the UF fan base that believe you guys paid Cam. There are those outside the UF fan base that believe Chris Rainey was getting money. Wait...that last one was Chris himself.

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

I could be wrong, but I believe all of those charges could have come from the NCAA due to the school's status as a repeat violator. Hence Smith painting Coach Tressel as a menace to society, more or less.

The NCAA did not charge tOSU with LOIC or FTM because there was no evidence of either; not because of Smith's ability to throw JT under a bus.

 

[alexhortdog95]

The NCAA did not charge tOSU with LOIC or FTM because there was no evidence of either; not because of Smith's ability to throw JT under a bus.

But, correct me if I'm wrong, that was part of their research was to see if they could charge the school with one of those two charges, right? I thought part of their letter to the school was why they shouldn't charge the school with those charges, right? Oh hell...I've lost sight of what the original damn thing was about anyway at this point, LOL

Freaking ESPN....went from tats to trinkets to cars to tressel leaving to tpryor leaving to tOSU getting sued to....who the hell can keep up?!?

EDIT: Just looked at the original letter of allegations from the NCAA to the school. So here's what's confused me. At the very end of the letter, it says the following:

- A statement indicating whether the provisions of NCAA Bylaws 31.2.2.3 and 31.2.2.4 apply.
- A statement indicating whether the provisions of NCAA Bylaws 19.5.2.2(e) apply.

Bylaw 31.2.2.3 talks about exactly what the school did - vacate wins, remove any championships from the record. Bylaw 31.2.2.4 talks about a possible financial penalty. And of course, bylaw 19.5.2.2(e) is about the same as 31.2.2.3 - removing any championships/records from the books.

So...WHY is this even coming up?!? Because the Media is trying to pull an okey-doke on folks:

http://www.lvrj.com/sports/in-brief-126054443.html - mentions LOIC charge...
http://espn.go.com/blog/pac12/post/_/id/23439/opening-the-mailbag-ohio-state-usc-the-ncaa - blogger from ESPN mentions it...again....
http://blogs.mercurynews.com/colleg...ions-ncaa-logic-and-ohio-states-great-escape/ - and so on.

Just to let you know - that's why folks keep bringing it up. Cause the media outside of Ohio is reporting that you guys were going to get slapped with that or a failure to monitor.