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DE Chase Young (Nagurski, Hendricks, Bednarik, Silver Football, NFL DROY, New Orleans Saints)

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I have grown accustomed over more than a few decades to some kind of controversy or issue that becomes a media spectacle surrounding Ohio State football. It often came in the form of an arrest or some NCAA violation - often in the summer. Last year Urban and Zach Smith, with help from the former Mrs. Smith and Brett McMurphy, was the distraction.

Despite my love for Urban, and appreciation for what he did for OSU football, I also haven't missed him much - because we had a spring, summer, and 8 games into the fall without any of that stuff (and because of 8 wins in 8 games). I was telling my son on Tuesday how much I was enjoying the program just being about football. Should have known something was coming. It's a law of thermodynamics or something. As it is, this doesn't appear to be the apocalypse that ruins the season (although I never want to underestimate the capacity of the NCAA to over-punish the innocent and under-punish the guilty), but it sure would be nice to have one full year where football on the field is the only focus.

The other thought this has sparked is that with the Ca law forcing the NCAA's hand on image and likeness issues and compensation, you have a context where the NCAA wants athletes to be true students. That's fine. I think that's fair, given this is COLLEGE athletics. The disconnect comes with treating them drastically different than other students in one big way. If an engineering student patents a new toilet that also does liposuction on your rear end, or some such thing, and makes a billion dollars, the school will be sending out press releases and celebrating. If that same engineering student gets a loan from a friend, stranger, the mafia, or a loan shark, no one cares. But if Chase Young does it, it represents a corruption on a grand scale. It's ridiculous. I get that those rules are about boosters corrupting fair competition, but don't spout rhetoric about upholding the student-athlete model from one side of your mouth and treat athletes radically different than students in your rules and enforcement.
 
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OSU_Buckguy said:
wouldn't be surprised if the timing here was selectively chosen by osu. compliance found out sometime before the wisconsin game and slow-played their due diligence so that the suspension -- which was expected to be no more than two games since chase's infraction wasn't egregious and since precedence for a similar infraction has already been set -- would be meted out in time for a return for penn state.

as of a couple days ago, we considered the timing of the penn state game right before the ttun game to be a major disadvantage. now we wouldn't have it any other way.
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Are we both BKB?? bc I said this to my brother verbatim yesterday
 
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mendensa said:
frosted tips saying possible 4 games on College Game Day. WTF? Appeal, down to 2?
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This would be a really bad PR nightmare for the NCAA IMO.

I don’t think the public is on the NCAA’s side here, especially as more facts come out. NCAA slapping a 4 game suspension sounds like asking for a shitload of negative reaction from the Jay Bilas’s and Fox Sports commentators of the world. They will go nuclear.....

And with that said....it’s the NCAA and OSU so you always get that worst case scenario feeling.

If Chase is slapped with a 4 game suspension, my opinion is we never see him play another down in spite of the NCAA, not OSU.....and I wouldn’t blame a bit no matter what OSU is playing for.
 
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