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This. Great first post. By contrast, it is significantly easier to prevail on a libel claim in Great Britain.

I got a speeding ticket on my way to the OSU/TSUN last year. Cop did not ask for proof of insurance, gave me ticket, and I went on my merry way. 4 months later my parents got a notice in the mail that my license would be suspended if I did not send in proof of insurance within a few weeks...

I tend to agree with the car thing; a good compliance staff (and coaching staff) should notice when the star player has 6 or 7 different cars in 3 years and ask serious questions. Not so sure about the tattoo issue. Assuming for a moment that the compliance staff interviewed the players...

Assume for a moment that OSU asked the players with lots of tats where they got them and how they paid for them. Would the NCAA say that isn't enough? Has the NCAA ever cracked down on a school for failing to interview inmates at prisons? I am not sure that the NCAA expects a school to be...

I'm not saying he did it but I disagree. Why wouldn't a young coach do something like that to help his team and himself?

The compliance people are in a tough position, it is their job to find wrong doing that could bring down (or hurt) a team with which they presumably have some sense of loyalty. That makes things complicated with regard to how vigilant they are about believing a story told by an athlete with...

What coach fits that description? Unfortunately, given the status of big time college sports, I do not think a coach can be a foursquare disciplinarian and win a championship. Tressel was about as close as you get and the need to cross the line into the grey areas.

A policy that requires a school to self-report but does not impose a punishment for not self-reporting is no policy at all.

The worst part about it is that it is something he knows that he cannot get away with...

Most ADs and coaches are running organizations that are slightly smaller than the NCAA too.

Buckyle called it a profit. My point is that saying the NCAA is turning a profit (or pointing out that they have extra operating income--yes i saw the financials) suggests that someone is getting rich off the athletes' backs? Who is getting wealthy? I am sure many of the administrators are...

the NCAA isn't a company...they are not turning a profit...

I wasn't aware that the NCAA is turning a profit...where can I sign up to be a shareholder?

My understanding of a TV ban was that it was about punishing the program by depriving it of exposure, not punishing the athletic department by depriving it of revenue. In other words, recruits won't want to come play for a team that isn't on tv.

I think a lot of former players look at it this way as well.

First, 10.1 covers more than just non-disclosures, it covers unethetical conduct in general. But to your question, the school would have needed to have knowledge that a violation had occurred or was occurring. Why would a team self-report something that the have no knowledge about or something...

While Gordon Gee might not have a future in comedy, his future as president of the university is hardly tied to JT.

And the unfortunate thing is that if JT is around for several more seasons---and I hope that he around for a long time---it is likely that another scholar athlete will accept improper benefits. It is an unfortunate part of big-time college football that no coach can entirely prevent. The next...

No, I have said (more than once) that they did not do the same thing. I do think that it is possible that the NCAA might view them in a more similar light than we hope. I think that all depends on what the NCAA asked Tress in December, if anything. If they did not ask him anything about when...

OSU has conceded that Tress committed a violation in April 2010. I think the question is whether he then lied in September and/or December 2010. If so, my guess is the NCAA will consider that to be a separate violation. If he just continued to fail to disclose, maybe they will consider it to...