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NCAA Basketball Investigation/Lawsuit Thread (merged)

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Does anyone else think that making the announcement 1 hour before the tip of our opening game in the conference tourney smacked of retribution on the part of the NCAA? I don't know, I think just about ANY other time would have been fairer. Then again, I don't agree with the sanctions either
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I have been told that during the initial NCAA hearings, tOSU requested that the NCAA make their findings and ruling by today and they did just that.
 
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BuckTwenty said:
I guess I'm still a little in the dark. We get them back when our current juniors and seniors leave the program?
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Usually if you take away scholorships, you give it a given amount of time, like 2 years for example. I dont know how OSU did it but I dont see why it would have anything to do with the juniors and seniors leaving. We do get scholorships from that because they are freeing up scholorship slots, but the two that OSU took away from itself should be back soon.
 
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Considering that there are no postseason bans given to us, this pretty much means that all of the recruits are totally committed to the university. Even though i am pretty confident in this, if anyone finds any quotes from these signees please post them.
 
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Baschii06 said:
Considering that there are no postseason bans given to us, this pretty much means that all of the recruits are totally committed to the university. Even though i am pretty confident in this, if anyone finds any quotes from these signees please post them.
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The "out" clause in their LOI's is now null and void with no postseason bans. They are Buckeyes.
 
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MoneyMike said:
Usually if you take away scholorships, you give it a given amount of time, like 2 years for example. I dont know how OSU did it but I dont see why it would have anything to do with the juniors and seniors leaving. We do get scholorships from that because they are freeing up scholorship slots, but the two that OSU took away from itself should be back soon.
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When I first heard that we took those 2 scholarships away last year that it would mean that we'd be taking them away for 4 years (the length that a recruit would use it). When 44820 started talking about we'd get them back when the juniors and seniors leave the program, I got a little confused there. Hope we get them back soon! It's hard for me to think how good we could potentially be when we finally get those schollies reinstated!
 
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When I first heard that we took those 2 scholarships away last year that it would mean that we'd be taking them away for 4 years (the length that a recruit would use it). When 44820 started talking about we'd get them back when the juniors and seniors leave the program, I got a little confused there. Hope we get them back soon! It's hard for me to think how good we could potentially be when we finally get those schollies reinstated!
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Losing two schollies simply meant that last year our limit of schoalrship players on the roster was 11 instead of 13. For next year it goes back to 13 again.

Arguably not much of a penalty when you consider that we were still one short of our self imposed limit this year and will be two short of the normal NCAA limit next year as well (three short if anyone should transfer). OSU probably could have taken a sixth player in the incoming class, but had to be careful in anticipation that the NCAA took more schollies away. That would have been reall ugly. Not out of the question that we make a late addition - another JUCO perhaps.
 
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Losing two schollies simply meant that last year our limit of schoalrship players on the roster was 11 instead of 13. For next year it goes back to 13 again.
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Thats a ton more clearer than my post, thanks for the assist. :wink2:

Not out of the question that we make a late addition - another JUCO perhaps.
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It is a possiblity, the staff is looking at the JUCO ranks right now.....



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3/11/06

Coverage of the NCAA ruling by Steve Helwagen.
 
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ABJ

3/11/06

Ohio State report

NCAA levies OSU penalties

Buckeyes receive three years of probation, limits on recruit visits

By Rusty Miller

Associated Press

COLUMBUS - Ohio State was placed on three years' probation Friday and ordered to erase all references to its 1999 trip to the Final Four and three other tournament appearances for NCAA violations under former coach Jim O'Brien.

The school escaped additional penalties on this season's team, which is 24-4 and ranked No. 7 in the nation, for using an ineligible player from 1999-2002.

``The positives are closure,'' Ohio State Athletic Director Gene Smith said.

``We're going into the Big Ten Tournament and we want our student-athletes to have the opportunity to participate in this tournament understanding there won't be any sanctions they have to deal with.... They can play without that stress.''

The banner hanging from Value City Arena's rafters will be altered to erase the run to the national semifinals in 1999, four years of tournament revenue totaling about $800,000 will be repaid and record books will be blotted out to eradicate pictures and statistics for the four tournament teams that included an ineligible player, Boban Savovic. He received improper gifts, including housing and cash, from a booster.

``The news we got today was great for the university, but the players in this locker room knew we were going'' to the NCAA Tournament, said center Terence Dials, the Big Ten's player of the year. ``I would have been really shocked if they would have said we couldn't go.''

The NCAA came down hard on O'Brien and former assistant coach Paul Biancardi, now the coach at Wright State. If O'Brien gets a job at another college in the next five years, he and his new school must appear before the NCAA's infractions committee to discuss whether he will face additional limits.

``I wouldn't even dream of asking any other program to jump through hoops to give me an opportunity to get back in,'' O'Brien said by telephone from Boston.

Biancardi was prohibited from recruiting until Oct. 1, 2007. If he does, Wright State could face NCAA sanctions.

Ohio State had acknowledged eight of the nine violations alleged by the NCAA. The school fired O'Brien in June 2004 and held last season's team out of the postseason to try to avoid more penalties. The Buckeyes also limited their men's basketball scholarships to 11 this season, instead of the allowed 13.
Other penalties announced Friday include a public reprimand and a reduction in on-campus visits by basketball recruits next year.

Coach Thad Matta will welcome one of the nation's top recruiting classes next season.

``The confusion is gone,'' said Matta, adding he was happy to put the two-year investigation behind him.

Seven violations involved the men's basketball program under O'Brien. The other two involved women's basketball and football.

O'Brien was fired after he told then-athletic director Andy Geiger that he gave a recruit $6,000 in 1999.

Last month O'Brien won his lawsuit accusing the university of wrongfully firing him. Ohio State could have to pay him as much as $9.5 million
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