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Clarett spilling the beans

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Slander and Libel

If these allegations are proven false, can Clarett and Espn be sued for libel or slander? If not they should!!

Also, like Tim May said today, if Clarett did indeed receive money, you better bet the IRS will be showing up at his door b/c I'm sure he didn't pay taxes on that shit!
 
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Isn't it funny how this story breaks a week and a half before the Meshitagain game and 3 months before the NLOID. Clarett and ESPN knew exactly what they were doing. The knew this might screw us in the game and in recruiting. I hope it blows up in their fucking faces.
 
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I listened to a Robert Smith interview on WTAM tonight.
He didn't have any real inside info to share and didn'y drop any bombs but a couple of the things he said was very interesting.
First, Smith claimed he had no doubt that MoC was taken care of by certain people but seriously doubts that anyone at anytime that is tied directly to the school had a hand in it. This stuff goes on at every major university but usually the coach stays ditant enough for plausible deniability.
Secondly, and what I found to be most interesting was Smith's Claim that if you are the kind of person that is approachable then you will be approached.
Smith basically said it was a character issue. If the people around you on campus knew you were a person of decent character and probably would not be enticed by illegal activities then they'd leave you a lone. On the other hand if you were a person of questionable character then you would undoubtedly be approached.
He talked about his own experience and I believd what he said. He said "no" he was never approached to do anything unethical or illegal and as a matter of fact the first car he bought was a used one just five months before he was drafted. (It broke down three months before he was drafted)
He said he really struggled in school. Claimed that he and some of the players would scrounge up as many ticket stubs as possible to get the Wendy's coupons on the back.
I was impressed with Smith. Very well spoken and seemed very honest.
I had no sense that he was there to either protect or crucify either side in this case.
 
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BuckeyeFromHecK said:
wow 38 pages, quite the accomplishment, is that a umm record or soemthing?
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Smith basically said it was a character issue. If the people around you on campus knew you were a person of decent character and probably would not be enticed by illegal activities then they'd leave you a lone. On the other hand if you were a person of questionable character then you would undoubtedly be approached.
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I was going to try to make a similar point. I do believe different players have very different experiences. The OSU community is not a strictly controlled hierarchy. MC runs with LeBron, who runs with some big dogs. He has also been seen in Vegas which has its own crowd and own set of standards. In situations like that money falls out of peoples pockets who might not even be associated with the program and who don't give it a second thought.

In the same way that MC has beautiful women approaching him he is approached by the kind of folks who can get you in trouble.

All that said, I still think he is making most of it up - although possibly based on some limited foundation of misdeeds.

So far as suing ESPN - it would be tough because they aren't making these statements - only repeating them. Still, some standard of truth has to be applicable and with MCs track record of credibility they should have dug deeper. The distortions of statements from folks like Cooper also could be a problem if OSU took them on.
 
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EDIT: I suppose that if I'd look up a few posts, I'd see that Grad beat me to it. I'm kinda slow tonite apparently...


Well, this thread is now officially the biggest thread on The Planet. With the 562nd reply, the Mark Sanchez thread relinquished its lead, probably for good. Scary thing is that this one only took two days.
 
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Oh8ch said:
I just posted in another thread where I thought the mistake ESPN made was not in reporting MoC's comments, but in using them in the wrong story.

Stitch together half of the anecdotes on MoC that have emerged in the past 24 hours and you have a fascinating - and truthful - piece.
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This is a great point. Read the article and strip out the tone and message the hacks putting it together want to send, and what you have is basically this;

"I, Maurice Clarett, stuck my hand out towards everyone I was introduced to. I expected to be taken care of, and was bitter and angry when that was taken away. None of this is my fault, it's Tressel's fault for turning his back on me. Nothing is my fault, there's always someone else who carries responsibility for the things I do."

Honestly, no one outside of the OSU fanbase will probably see it that way, but all he does here is admit that he's one of the most unethical players to ever wear our uniform, and does a piss poor job of trying to dirty others along the way. With a smile and laugh, he admits major NCAA violations, and suggests it's a systemic problem, but doesn't provide any hard examples of how it is. Just loose generalizations like the car thing, which has been reasonably explained by Tressel. Take away the hostile damning tone of the writing, and there's just not much there.

But you're right, there's definitely an article to write there, they just wrote the wrong one.
 
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