Ohio State Board of Trustees Approves Final $100 Million Settlement with Richard Strauss Sexual Abuse Survivors​

The Ohio State Board of Trustees voted Wednesday to approve a $100 million settlement with hundreds of survivors of former university doctor Richard Strauss.

The resolution is expected to serve as the final settlement in the ongoing fallout from the Strauss sexual abuse cases. The measure was included in a consent agenda containing dozens of items, which the board approved unanimously.

State president Ravi Bellamkonda said Strauss survivors will always remain part of the Buckeye family and community.

We continue to be very grateful to them for their courage in coming forward — and reaching a final resolution was very important to us as an important step forward,” said Bellamkonda, who became Ohio State’s 18th president on March 12.

Trustees did not disclose details of the settlement during the meeting. Board chair John Zeiger said the terms remain confidential and cannot be made public until the agreement is finalized. Zeiger acknowledged that the public will have questions about what he called “this substantial development” and said the university intends to provide answers when it is able to do so.

It’s important we respect the court’s order and comply with the mediator’s directive,” Zeiger said. “But we will provide additional information on this resolution when we are positioned to do so.”

The university and the plaintiffs released the following joint statement after Wednesday’s board meeting:

Ohio State and 279 of the 280 individual remaining Richard Strauss survivors involved in the pending litigation have reached settlements in principle in a total amount of $100 million. The university’s Board of Trustees has now publicly ratified these agreements in principle, and all parties thank the mediators for their assistance. The mediation and its confidentiality are continuing as the parties work to finalize the details of the settlements, and additional information will be shared as appropriate.

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Before Wednesday’s vote, Ohio State had paid more than $61 million to 317 survivors since March 2020. The university also reached settlements with more than a dozen survivors in April.
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Among tOSU’s big backs, only 1 of them was a Unanimous All-American twice:

The perpetually underrated Bob Ferguson.

Bob won the Maxwell Award in 1961, and narrowly mixed becoming the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy, finishing a close second to Ernie Davis of Syracuse, who claimed that honor.

And during his career as a Buckeye, Ferguson was tackled for a loss the same number of times that @Jaxbuck has nailed Jessica Alba. Of course, that second number has the possibility of someday becoming a positive integer.

buckeyemania11 said:

3 Stanley Cup Finals appearances in 9 seasons of existence for Vegas

Meanwhile Columbus has only won two playoff series, (and 1 of those was only made possible because of the COVID structure) in their 26 years of existence

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Ohio professional sports, amiright?

RB07OSU said:

Any combo of those 3 would be massive, but I don't think that's outside the realm of possibility at all. I'd be equally excited to land any of them, but Easter would just go off in our offense alongside Jamier. That's explosive on another level.

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I the new recruiting strategy of smaller HS classes, but go after the big fish and guys willing to stay for 2-3yrs but willing to take less for possible development will allow for OSU to land 3 guys like this. Theres going to be a handful of guys a class where OSU will stay in it until the end for

No surprise, its been leaning this way for months. No reason to pay big money to 2 small WRs with similar games(McFarland and Brown)

dragurd said:

In their defense they were frats they were probably drunk lol

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Don't have to be in a frat for that at BG lol

Jaxbuck said:

I liked him better as an actor and boxer

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Ol "Tex" himself

Buckeyeskickbuttocks said:

Who could forget when John O'Korn outran their "defense" one spring.

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He went full Barn Childress on them.

Bagmen

Jaxbuck said:

and the Reds have a nepo baby in charge who says "Where else you gonna go?"

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that's bananas.

ScriptOhio said:

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/48953462/ball-bonks-angels-adell-head-fence-home-run

Ball bonks off Angels OF Adell's head, over fence for home run​

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Los Angeles Angels right fielder Jo Adell made headlines in April when he robbed three home runs in one game. On Tuesday night at Angel Stadium, he gave one back.

In a play he would probably like to forget, Adell raced toward the right-field wall to track down a fly ball off TJ Rumfield's bat in the fourth inning against the Colorado Rockies.

Adell appeared to get under the ball for an easy out, but in a flashback to the infamous Jose Canseco play from May 1993, the ball nicked off his glove, then bounced off his head and over the fence for a solo home run.

"It's one of those things where how it happened looks crazy," said Adell, who went 0-for-4 at the plate with two strikeouts. "It looks like I've never played in the field before, which is disappointing, because it's beyond the truth, but it is what it is. I'm the only one that really knows what happened. I was out there, and it happened to me, so it is what it is. I've got to just keep going, and as a team, we've got to keep going."

The play bore an eerie resemblance to Canseco's defensive blunder from 33 years ago, which happened when he was a member of the Texas Rangers and also occurred at the right-field wall. The Rangers lost that game 7-6 to Cleveland.

Adell actually made a similar outfield gaffe against the Rangers on Aug. 9, 2020, his rookie season, when a fly ball bounced off his glove -- but not his head -- and went over the fence. The play did not go down as a homer, however; instead, Adell was charged with a rare four-base error.

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Raise your hand if you have this no talent ass clown on your fantasy team

Jaxbuck said:

Southern politicians band together and vote to disrupt NIL deals for Northern schools.

Civil War 2.0 starts inside the next 6 months.

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Finally something worth fighting for

Should change his name to Maxxx.
Would be a new level of awesomeness.
Unlimited NIL earning potential.

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KYBuck4858 5 hours ago
WR Benny Easter has moved up his OV to TT from 6/19 to this weekend.
I think this is good. As he can directly compare the two, with the OSU visit still fresh on his mind, rather than great vibes wear off for a few weeks and then go to TT.

94 days

BuckeyeNation27 said:

I keep myself intentionally blind to most NIL things, because I reserve the things that erode my sanity to my wife and kid.....but can you really just take several million dollars from a school and then bail and just go get a different bag from somebody else? I really hope you can, because that makes Ohio State's NIL process that much more intelligent than the aTm and Miami's of the world.

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It would all depend on the contract details I guess.

Maybe UT just treated it like the good old days, handed him a bag of cash with no paper trail and he just said "Thanks!"?