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Clarett spilling the beans

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A scenario

Here's a scenario to consider. We have the largest alumni organisation in the world. Why don't we mobilize it with a boycott of ESPN. Let's stop looking at their site, buying their magazine and talking about them. Let's not watch their televised games (unless its tOSU). In the short-term, of course, the sensation value will bring far more users that are not Buckeye fans. But, they are not stupid, run an anti-OSU story and we all tune in.

By tuning in and logging on to ESPN, we are giving this thing credence. Even the talk here helps these irresponsible people.

If ESPN's traffic goes down, believe me, they will feel it and know what it costs.

I guarantee you, a well-organized boycott will change their tune and stop this kind of thing. MoC is a sad testimony to what he might have achieved. He had real potential. He could have been as revered as Archie Griffin. Instead, he plays out by trying to get himself back in the headlines before the draft with something like this.

MoC can't do it without them and hitting their pocketbook is what it will take to stop this kind of irresponsible journalism. I just removed the link to their site from my browser and I hope others will do the same. Don't support ESPN!
 
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Yet another sad chapter in the life of MoC. Just 2 short years ago, his meteoric rise in college football helped lead one of the most storied programs in college football to a national title. He was a tremendously gifted RB and I venture that everyone here thoroughly enjoyed what he brought to the field of play. Unfortunately, his meteoric rise to college football stardom was surpassed only by a meteoric rise in his ego and his belief that he was entitled to anything and everything. In his young mind (younger than his chronological age), he was bigger than OSU football. From the zenith of that magical evening in the Sanoran Desert that January night in 2002, to today, we have witnessed one of the more spectacular crash and burn of an athlete.

Good luck with your life MoC, but I think you need a helluva lot more than luck. Not that it matters to you, or that it ever did, but whatever little bit of care or concern that Buckeye fans may have still felt for you as well as good wishes for a successful pro career, have probably been flushed down the shitter; the same place that your name, reputation, and ability to act like a man have gone.
 
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It just got a whole lot interesting... ESPN released a few more articles...


Maurice Clarett isn't the only ex-Buckeye to allege improprieties at Ohio State. A number of players tell of similar experiences.


Marco Cooper, a linebacker suspended after two drug-possession arrests, says he enjoyed perks described by Clarett. When Cooper needed wheels, he says he went to a local Dodge dealer, got keys to a car and was allowed to return it whenever. Cooper never paid or signed papers. "There's no records for that stuff," he says. "There can't be." Just as there are no records for signed helmets and balls he says players use as currency around town for cars and clothing. "It starts at the No. 1 locker and goes all the way around the room," he continues. "You don't even know who you're signing for."



Cooper says a teammate once came home with a friend and some furniture for their apartment. The friend, an OSU student, was the son of a prominent booster. "He gave us furniture all the time," Cooper says. "At least $2,000 worth of nice tables and couches." In an interview last December, Curtis Crosby, an ex-Buckeye cornerback from Columbus, said he and other players accepted the same friend's generosity. He claimed that five to 10 teammates would go out to eat, none of them seeing the tabs for meals that cost hundreds of dollars. <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD width=5 rowSpan=2><SPACER width="5" height="1" type="block"></TD><TD width=195>
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</TD></TR><TR><TD width=195>[font=verdana, arial, geneva]Several former players say there are benefits to playing for OSU and coach Jim Tressel.[/font]</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Like Clarett, Cooper says he worked a no-show landscaping job set up through the football staff and would come and go as he pleased. He says he was paid $10 to $12 an hour and always put down in for 30 hours. "I never worked 30 hours." He adds that he received at least $2,600 in cash and never filed paperwork or went through the compliance office. He knows at least eight teammates who did the same. Crosby also says he worked bogus jobs.



But Cooper's account differs from that of Richard McNutt, a cornerback who worked on another landscaping crew. McNutt says he did anything his crew manager asked. "I can only speak for myself. All I know is I worked." (After an ankle injury ended his career, McNutt became a student-assistant for head coach Jim Tressel; he now coaches the secondary at D3 Washington & Jefferson in Pennsylvania.) Chris Vance, a star wideout in 2001-02, also denies seeing any improper benefits but says he believes Clarett. "I don't think he's lying. If he feels it's right to speak out, then I'm behind him 100%."



Cooper is back at Ohio State, taking 10 credits a quarter and hoping to return to the team or to transfer. But transferring won't be easy. After Crosby became academically ineligible, he left in 2002 and spent two semesters at Columbus State CC. He then met with officials at Grambling, who saw a transcript that included Officiating Basketball and Officiating Tennis and denied nearly half of his credits. "What are they doing up there at Ohio State?" he says an adviser asked.



They're doing some things competitors aren't, according to an ESPN poll of the Big Ten and of the BCS top 15 from 2003. Four of the 23 schools surveyed offered officiating courses, but only Ohio State has sport-specific classes. Nine schools gave credit for playing football, but OSU topped the list with a maximum of 10 career credits. Seven schools offered a football coaching course, but only four (Indiana, Miami of Ohio, Mississippi and Ohio State) let their head coach teach it.



In two years at OSU, LeAndre Boone says he took whatever courses his athletic adviser suggested: "He'd say, 'Take this class; this professor loves football players.'" After two years Boone left for D1-AA Hampton, where he could play right away. But he went from academic junior at Ohio State to barely a sophmore at Hampton. After playing one game he was found to have a career-ending heart condition, and he's since moved with his wife and two daughters to the one place he knew he could get a degree: Ohio State.



Despite acing courses like Officiating Softball and Power Volleyball, Fred Sturrup (in car, left) became academically ineligible for 2001 and lost his scholarship. He thought about leaving and met with Youngstown State coaches, but after hearing transcript horror stories from teammates, he asked for a chance to stay. To get through spring ball while he got his grades in order, he unloaded furniture for $7.50 an hour. He'd ask teammates for quarters to make phone calls, then spend them once a day on Wendy's 99-cent menu. For four months he lived in his 1971 Cadillac. If Sturrup made a mistake, he says, coaches ran him until he was exhausted.



"I thought they were going to kill him," Crosby says.



Sturrup has given up on being a Buckeye, but not on his education. He hopes to graduate from Ohio State this spring. "They stuck their foot in my ass," he says. "But I'm not letting them stop me from getting my degree."
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AKAKBUCK said:
He'll still take hummer, though... you know... if you're giving them out.
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I don't drive an SUV.

When Grambling and Hampton are cracking on your academics, it's time to...

laugh like hell. Please.

Fuck ESPN, I'll watch FOX from now on, even with as much as I hate Kellen Winslow.
 
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"There's no records for that stuff,"
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That's all you need to know.

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He'll still take hummer, though... you know... if you're giving them out.

I don't drive an SUV.
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Doesn't matter, but it would help if whatever you do drive has bench seats. :wink2:
 
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so far its a bunch of lazy fuckups that dont have the sense, or care, to control their own lives....they are pissed that life wasnt handed to them.....

i hope they all get crushed to death when the dumpster they are sleeping in gets serviced...
 
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