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Brawndo's got electrolytes...
This was posted by Oxfordbuck on the BN premium board. He says he knows DC and their family.
"First off let me start by saying how much better I feel about this situation after talking to the Carters. I was sick when I read the comments initially because it was so uncharacteristic of Drew to say those things.
Secondly, Drew has spoken directly to Jim Tressel and told him exactly how the interview went down, what he said, and how it came out on ESPN.com. Tressel and Drew are on very good terms still.
I was asked by Drew's brother to spread the word on how ESPN has been going about this story so here it goes. ESPN has been calling anybody and everybody they could of former players. When the player gets on the phone the conversation is completely one-sided. The interviewor starts talking about the Clarett situation, and keeps talking, and talking, and talking and the players are barely saying anything throughout the entire conversation. At certain points in the conversation the person doing the interview might stop and say, "What do you think about that?" or little questions here or there. In Drew's instance regarding football players and jobs, Drew made comments about how he got help getting jobs, which is legal, he always had to fill out the proper paper work including his social security # so there was records of the jobs being legit, and Drew mentioned he got paid thousand dollars. ESPN twisted the few words that Drew said into Buckeyes were getting set up in cake walk jobs, doing nothing, and getting paid thousands of dollars when Drew never said that.
Regarding the tutors.........The ESPN interviewor did his typical talking and talking and talking, then asked Drew, "What do you think?" Drew's comments were something to the effect of, well if he (Clarett) needed help, I'm sure he could have gotten it, anybody can get hooked up with a tutor it is a college campus. Drew said nothing about tutors doing work for players, that was all added by ESPN, and nothing about $100 handshakes. Drew also added that with all the help a player can get, and they are still failing out, what does that say about the player?
Moving forward from here, Tressel told Drew that he is going to be contact by a University PR person for a quote and Drew has been working with the Carolina Panter PR people regarding this situation. ESPN should be ashamed of themselves. In my opinion, The univsity, Drew, former players, need to make an effort to get the truth out or people like Drew are going to be looked down upon for quotes they didn't say for the rest of their lives. "
"First off let me start by saying how much better I feel about this situation after talking to the Carters. I was sick when I read the comments initially because it was so uncharacteristic of Drew to say those things.
Secondly, Drew has spoken directly to Jim Tressel and told him exactly how the interview went down, what he said, and how it came out on ESPN.com. Tressel and Drew are on very good terms still.
I was asked by Drew's brother to spread the word on how ESPN has been going about this story so here it goes. ESPN has been calling anybody and everybody they could of former players. When the player gets on the phone the conversation is completely one-sided. The interviewor starts talking about the Clarett situation, and keeps talking, and talking, and talking and the players are barely saying anything throughout the entire conversation. At certain points in the conversation the person doing the interview might stop and say, "What do you think about that?" or little questions here or there. In Drew's instance regarding football players and jobs, Drew made comments about how he got help getting jobs, which is legal, he always had to fill out the proper paper work including his social security # so there was records of the jobs being legit, and Drew mentioned he got paid thousand dollars. ESPN twisted the few words that Drew said into Buckeyes were getting set up in cake walk jobs, doing nothing, and getting paid thousands of dollars when Drew never said that.
Regarding the tutors.........The ESPN interviewor did his typical talking and talking and talking, then asked Drew, "What do you think?" Drew's comments were something to the effect of, well if he (Clarett) needed help, I'm sure he could have gotten it, anybody can get hooked up with a tutor it is a college campus. Drew said nothing about tutors doing work for players, that was all added by ESPN, and nothing about $100 handshakes. Drew also added that with all the help a player can get, and they are still failing out, what does that say about the player?
Moving forward from here, Tressel told Drew that he is going to be contact by a University PR person for a quote and Drew has been working with the Carolina Panter PR people regarding this situation. ESPN should be ashamed of themselves. In my opinion, The univsity, Drew, former players, need to make an effort to get the truth out or people like Drew are going to be looked down upon for quotes they didn't say for the rest of their lives. "
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MistriBuck
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and i got into a little debate with Oxford on the bucknuts board..........while i can understand ESPN asking slanted questions to illicit the kind of responses they're looking for, and putting his quotes into different contexts, the idea that they MADE UP these quotes is ridiculous.........while i doubt that Carter's intentions were malicious, the bottom line is he gave ESPN what it was looking for and added fuel to the fire, and I for one am not too appreciative of Drew Carter coming out and saying these types of things and taking the stance that he took, what did he have to gain from this?
on a side note, to add to what others have stated quite clearly, this article still adds nothing new and proves nothing on the institutional level
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