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ronfel said:Snyder was up in the box with Bollman. Didn't seem to make any difference.
MililaniBuckeye said:I could've swore I saw Snyder next to Tressel on the field...
It works the same way with Lavar Arrington...try it.AKAKBUCK said:Why is it that when someone types "co-ordinators"
Its like that dud on South Park Who says "Planet---Arium"
exhawg said:As a lineman I hate sleds, but I think it is something that you have to do to be a good run blocker. They teach you to fire out stay low and drive. The 2 man sled is good for double teams because they make you stay even with the guy you're doubling with or the sled will spinout. I saw at least once in the game where the guard and center didn't stay together on the double and got split by the DT.
Very true. Tressel does believe in being loyal to people for a number of reasons, but this season has shown his ability to change, even if it is not at our pace.martinss01 said:like when MoC started as a true freshmen over lydell? there is a big difference between bing loyal to a fault and being fired. tressel didn't get to where he is by being stupid. he will give bollman more time than most, but even he will pull the trigger if forced.
OSU FOOTBALL
Geiger reprimanded Bollman for assisting a recruit in 2002
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Ken Gordon and Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Ohio State officially reprimanded offensive coordinator Jim Bollman two years ago for trying to help arrange a car, a bank loan and an academic tutor for a football recruit, according to documents in Bollman’s personnel file.
The help arranging a tutor was found to be a secondary NCAA violation. The NCAA accepted Ohio State’s self-reporting of the violation and did not conduct its own investigation, athletics director Andy Geiger said. The letter of reprimand was the only punishment for Bollman.
Though the recruit’s name was removed from the record and neither Bollman nor athletics director Andy Geiger named him, sources told The Dispatch it was Derek Morris, an offensive lineman who eventually played for North Carolina State.
The incidents occurred in the summer of 2002. Morris had committed in February but was released from his letter of intent that fall.
The football program is under NCAA investigation in the wake of allegations made in November by former running back Maurice Clarett. He said coaches helped him arrange loaner cars, pointed players toward boosters who gave them cash and arranged for tutors to do work for players.
Geiger and coach Jim Tressel said in November that Tressel had steered Clarett to his courtesy-car dealership, McDaniel Automotive in Marion. Tressel said he did it so Clarett would be treated fairly.
Geiger said then that Tressel should not have made the call but that it was not an NCAA violation.
Yesterday, Geiger said the similarities between the Bollman and Tressel incidents did not constitute a pattern.
"The particular thing (Bollman) was involved with was unique," he said.
A letter of reprimand from Geiger to Bollman, dated Feb. 24, 2003, is worded strongly in places.
Geiger wrote, "I am seriously concerned with your actions. . . . Your actions reflected poorly on our coaches and our institution and are not to be repeated. Understand that even inadvertent violations compromise the integrity of our athletic department."
A letter of admonishment — less serious than a reprimand — was placed in Tressel’s file regarding the same incidents because Tressel is Bollman’s supervisor.
Geiger said Bollman was "mortified" by the affair and that there had been no other issues since then.
"You always try to learn from any situation that comes up so they don’t occur again," Bollman said. "You’ve got to be extra careful about everything and anything. You need to try to double-check everything. We try to work pretty close with the compliance office so when there is any kind of question, you’d call them first."
Morris, from Huntersville, N.C., moved to the Columbus area with his family in the summer of 2002. Questions arose about his academic eligibility, which kept him from ever practicing with the team.
The letter states that Bollman contacted Nourse Auto Leasing, Bollman’s courtesy car dealer, and asked the dealer to help a recruit’s family get a car. The family did not obtain a car from Nourse, Bollman said.
Geiger’s letter also said Bollman was contacted by Huntington Bank about a $3,000 loan the family had applied for, and Bollman told the bank the loan would be fine "as long as Ohio State did not have any involvement in the process."
Finally, the letter states that Bollman delivered ACT test registration materials and arranged a tutor for the recruit to help him prepare for the test. That is a violation of NCAA Bylaw 13.2.1 regarding improper benefits.
Bollman said the recruit’s family apparently used him as a reference for the loan and that he simply vouched that Morris "was a good guy, but don’t give him the loan just because he knows me."
Regarding the tutor, Bollman said he thought an arrangement already had been made when he contacted the tutor. No such arrangement was in place, though, and the tutor apparently believed Bollman was trying to influence him or her.
"We were all over (the incidents)," Geiger said. "We found the stuff, jumped on it, investigated it and blew the whistle. The youngster (Morris) is gone, and it never went any further."
Morris enrolled at N.C. State in 2003. In August 2003 he told reporters for several North Carolina newspapers that the NCAA questioned him about "a lot of violations" while he was at Ohio State.
Through an N.C. State spokesman, Morris declined to comment yesterday.
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