Dr Z Posted May 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 Lets see,so the story about the cars was ,what 'not accurate'? I am not a big OSU fan but a lot of you out there assumed alot. What about the other 49? Former OSU basketball player Mark Titus wrote Tuesday on his blog that the perks within the football program are far from a secret."Any OSU student in the past five years could tell you that a lot of the football players drive nice cars," Titus wrote. "You'd have to be blind to not notice it."Small said there was no shortage of people trying to help Ohio State athletes. "Everywhere you go, while you're in the process of playing at Ohio State," Small said, "you're going to get a deal every which way." Source Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyzip84 Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 Lets see,so the story about the cars was ,what 'not accurate'? I am not a big OSU fan but a lot of you out there assumed alot. What about the other 49? Former OSU basketball player Mark Titus wrote Tuesday on his blog that the perks within the football program are far from a secret."Any OSU student in the past five years could tell you that a lot of the football players drive nice cars," Titus wrote. "You'd have to be blind to not notice it."Small said there was no shortage of people trying to help Ohio State athletes. "Everywhere you go, while you're in the process of playing at Ohio State," Small said, "you're going to get a deal every which way." Source Here's a little more of the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zips Win! Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 Just when you think this story is coming to an end, more allegations appear!! Loving every minute of this....And all the honks have to say is, "Well everybody is doing it, so it's no big deal".. What a bunch of morons....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Z Posted May 26, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 "Well everybody is doing it, so it's no big deal".. What a bunch of morons....... "Ehhhhhh.....don't you mean MAROONS?" ooooooooooo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted May 26, 2011 Report Share Posted May 26, 2011 Just when you think this story is coming to an end, more allegations appear!! Loving every minute of this....And all the honks have to say is, "Well everybody is doing it, so it's no big deal".. What a bunch of morons....... Why would anyone think this story is coming to an end? We are only at the beginning of the book and the best pages are ahead. The morons are only half moronic...the other half is just plain stupid. Everyone does do it, but when they get caught, they don't lie to everyone around them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 "Well everybody is doing it, so it's no big deal".. What a bunch of morons....... "Ehhhhhh.....don't you mean MAROONS?" ooooooooooo maroon and grim ah well. if everyone is doing it, why is it that THE ahiya stayt unuhvarseteh is the just about the only one who has seemed to reach cascading levels of impending guiltiness? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 And the beat goes on... Of course, Buckeye Nation is attacking the messenger and not the message. Many claim the guy was a bad guy on the team (they cheered him after every TD though). Many say he didn't go to class (shocking). Maybe all of that is true. What does it have to do with him being right about people selling their little trinkets? "Everyone" was doing it? Probably not everyone did, but if only a few were doing it, it's further bad news. My favorite line is about the guys not even thinking about NCAA rules. Can anyone say "lack of institutional control"? How would you like to be the paper pushinig compliance officer at tOSU? Here is a guy who exists only to make sure the rules aren't being broken. He spends his entire life giving compliance presentations to players and coaches in an effort to make sure they are in compliance, and guys don't even think about him for one second after they wake up after the compliance lecture. In many ways, this compliance officer's existance at tOSU is meaningless. The stance tOSU has taken throughout this entire process has been very interesting. Basically, they are saying they understand they have been caught and they don't care. They don't care to the point they aren't even going to fire a single person over this situation...not a single change. The same people who caused the problem are going to be left in place to cause the problem again. At which point, they can take the same stance. It's brazen to the point I find it somewhat admirable. tOSU is going to lead the way to making high level college football an institutionalized professional sports league (right now, it is quasi professional, not institutional). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Z Posted May 27, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 Eddie Rife, the tattoo parlor owner at the center of the Ohio State football scandal, was accused today of federal drug charges involving a raid in which authorities seized memorabilia. source Pleading guilty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted May 27, 2011 Report Share Posted May 27, 2011 Eddie Rife, the tattoo parlor owner at the center of the Ohio State football scandal, was accused today of federal drug charges involving a raid in which authorities seized memorabilia. source Pleading guilty This story just keeps getting better and better. His crooked lawyer knows Mr. Rogers.......I mean Jim Tressel. I wonder if the Tatgate five or six is going to turn into the Tatgate Twenty?.?.?. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Z Posted May 28, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 Fire Tressel because of the hypocrisy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zips Win! Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/201...ditional_f.html Did anyone see the linked (I hope so) article on Wednesday in the PD? This more than anything else is why I'm such a big fan.... The buckeye beat writer wrote an article explaining why OSU and a some of the bigger BCS schools want to pay players a stipend between $2K and $5K. The idea of paying players is nothing new. I realize that the OSCheaters with their $123 million dollar annual budget can afford to do so. But read just how pompous their asshole, cheating, cover-up AD really is. It's no wonder Smith and Tressel get along. First, Smith rips on the MAC with his "....The reality is that they're not competing with us anyway". Really Geno....Yet you somehow find a way to schedule two MAC games a year.. But we aren't competing with them.... Secondly, the idea of super-conferences was discussed. Ol'Geno thought better than to want to place his buckeyes in a superconference where he might have to play 6 or 8 really hard games a year. In this instance, he wanted status quo...You know, so he can continue to play schedules ranked in the 60's.... Then, instead of taking the hit for his renegade, cheating players selling their memorabilia, ol' Geno believes that the paying of his players is the solution to avoiding NCAA violations and is real the problem in college athletics. Really Geno!! I think you should start taking some responsibility for your dirtbag program and fire the coach and then resign. Let Gordon Geek hang himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zips Win! Posted May 28, 2011 Report Share Posted May 28, 2011 http://www.foxsportsohio.com/05/26/11/Buck...amp;feedID=3725 A great read....O-Lie-O... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 Goodbye scumbag.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyzip84 Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 Goodbye scumbag.. Well it's certainly no surprise. Listening to Robert Smith on ESPN right now and he's spinning it the way most Red & Silver faithful probably will....Tressel just couldn't watch the continuing damage being done to the reputation of the school. Whatever! He'll apparently never own up to his actions. But that probably won't stop him from writing a few more books. Luke Fickell likely being the interim coach next year is an interesting twist. Sources said assistant coach Luke Fickell, who had been named to coach the first five games of the season while Tressel served his suspension for withholding information from the university compliance office and the NCAA, will serve as interim coach of the Buckeyes all of next season. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipseuph Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 Goodbye scumbag.. seriously GP1? someone lost their job today and this is how you're gonna act about it? Yes, he made a mistake, but for the most part he was a stand up individual. Why don't you set your OSU jealousy aside for a little bit and show some class. This is one giant jealousy circus and you sir are the ring leader. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zipseuph Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 He'll apparently never own up to his actions. sorry Johnny but I can't side with you on this one. he did request to have his suspensions extended to match the players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 Goodbye scumbag.. seriously GP1? someone lost their job today and this is how you're gonna act about it? Yes, he made a mistake, but for the most part he was a stand up individual. Why don't you set your OSU jealousy aside for a little bit and show some class. This is one giant jealousy circus and you sir are the ring leader. You make it sound like he "lost his job" at some factory because of the slow economic times. Just some poor middle class guy who will struggle while he looks for another job. He didn't lose his job, he resigned in disgrace because he built a dirty football program. The depth of how dirty the program was hasn't even been revealed yet. Mistake means one. He ran a dirty program at YSU and continued from day 1 at tOSU starting with MoC, followed by Troy Smith and now Tatgate. Now we all are going to have to listen to how he was a "really good person". Tressel is just another college football coach and is as dirty as the next. There is nothing special about the guy. All the tainted wins aginst Michigan, the national championship, the Big Ten championships don't look so good now. Tressel can go coach a positon in the NFL next year in a second. Guys do it all the time. Cooper went to work as a consultant for the Bengals when he was fired. Tressel could work for a lot of NFL teams next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skip-zip Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 Goodbye scumbag.. seriously GP1? someone lost their job today and this is how you're gonna act about it? Yes, he made a mistake, but for the most part he was a stand up individual. Why don't you set your OSU jealousy aside for a little bit and show some class. This is one giant jealousy circus and you sir are the ring leader. A millionaire lost his job today. And you care? He's been doing this crap all the way back to his YSU days. wake up. As a Zips fan, we have to deal with enough competitive disadvantages with the bigger schools. Cheating and lying....repeatedly...certainly is deserving of the "scumbag" label for me too. I have no sympathy whatsoever today for him, his bosses, or the University. They have 100% created their own problem. I hope they get everything they deserve. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 He'll apparently never own up to his actions. sorry Johnny but I can't side with you on this one. he did request to have his suspensions extended to match the players. Maybe he was hoping the extended suspension would cover up his lies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spin Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 You guys all know I'm no big fan of tOSU fans. But does anybody on here really believe that this stuff doesn't go on ANYWHERE else??? And does anyone truly believe the people who asked him to resign (the AD and the Prez) really didn't know what was going on??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zip_ME87 Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 Goodbye scumbag.. seriously GP1? someone lost their job today and this is how you're gonna act about it? Yes, he made a mistake, but for the most part he was a stand up individual. Why don't you set your OSU jealousy aside for a little bit and show some class. This is one giant jealousy circus and you sir are the ring leader. This is NOT all a "jealousy circus" as you call it. tOSU is a STATE university, supported by STATE tax dollars. Yet, to justify the Big 10 (11, 12, whatever) Network, they have the arrogance to say that watching tOSU football is not a right. Why not?...My taxes support that program. If they want to go private, fine, do so. I'll gladly let the other state universities split tOSU's portion of Ohio's tax dollars. I hate their SCUMBAG ARROGANCE! I used to respect Jim Tressel, but not now that I see he succumbed to the greater than so many other schools attitude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Kangaroo Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 He'll apparently never own up to his actions. sorry Johnny but I can't side with you on this one. he did request to have his suspensions extended to match the players. Maybe he was hoping the extended suspension would cover up his lies. 20 year old kids have some level of excuse...they're poor, young and capable of stupid stuff. Tressel was a grown man. He knew better. And, only under pressure, did he have his suspension increased to match (not exceed) the kid's suspension. Too little too late. All he needed to do was forward the emails to his compliance officer and he'd have be fine. He didn't, and his motives were pretty transparent to all. Looking forward to seeing Coach Fickell this upcoming Labor Day weekend! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K92 Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 I have not commented on this whole situation because I try to avoid actively participating in the cult of OSU. Bottom line is that the whole "everybody else is doing it" argument does not hold water. The amount of violations committed by "everybody else" is extremely speculative at best. There is certainly the perception among fans that NCAA violations are normal, everyday, standard operating procedure in I-A football. This perception really becomes even more exaggerated when fans are defending their institiution's transgressions. However, if the exact same situation occured in Ann Arbor, Buckeye fans would not be using the "everybody" argument, but instead would be screaming for the death penalty. Bias is a bitch. The initial infractions really aren't even the real issue here. Players selling trinkets to a crooked tattoo artist is not what brought down Jim Tressel. Jim Tressel's total lack of integrity brought him down. He knowingly played ineligible players for an entire season. That was the initial season-long deception which eventually resulted with Jim stacking lies upon lies upon lies upon lies. Jim Tressel is a liar. Liars are scumbags. Jim Tressel is a scumbag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GP1 Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 But does anybody on here really believe that this stuff doesn't go on ANYWHERE else??? I hear this question a lot. It doesn't make a difference or not if it goes on at even one other place. Tressel has a history of breaking the rules. He was caught and lied to his boss and caused his boss to be untruthful to his boss. The culture of corruption he created at tOSU is going to cost that school millions of dollars....including his buyout. I have a relative who is close to the tOSU program and very close to a couple of starters. We talked this morning. The car dealership is a HUGE problem and when that poop hits the fan, it is going to make tatgate look tame. This entire story is just getting going. I wish Dave in Green would report on this real story instead of the uninteresting Auburn/State of Alabama story. There are real dots to be connected in the tOSU story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spin Posted May 30, 2011 Report Share Posted May 30, 2011 But does anybody on here really believe that this stuff doesn't go on ANYWHERE else??? I hear this question a lot. It doesn't make a difference or not if it goes on at even one other place. Tressel has a history of breaking the rules. He was caught and lied to his boss and caused his boss to be untruthful to his boss. The culture of corruption he created at tOSU is going to cost that school millions of dollars....including his buyout. I have a relative who is close to the tOSU program and very close to a couple of starters. We talked this morning. The car dealership is a HUGE problem and when that poop hits the fan, it is going to make tatgate look tame. This entire story is just getting going. I wish Dave in Green would report on this real story instead of the uninteresting Auburn/State of Alabama story. There are real dots to be connected in the tOSU story. It would be nice if someone broke it before SI comes out... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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