Oregon Ducks

[Oh8ch]

Personally I think it should be much worse. Tats don't give you a competitive edge..recruiting does.

I know this is the company line, and I use it myself when off this board. But, we didn't get penalized for allowing our players to get tattooed. Our players traded on the benefits of being on the OSU football team. Such a practice, when not properly monitored, can lead to a competitive advantage.

Our coach lied about his knowledge of NCAA violations.

That said, We were going to go on being OSU regardless of extra benefits. Oregon is only Oregon because of extra benefits. (I speak of Knight, not Lyles.)

 

[ochre]

Honestly, I don't care if they get [strike]put on probation, get a bowl ban or lose scholarships[/strike] the death penalty.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

I know this is the company line, and I use it myself when off this board. But, we didn't get penalized for allowing our players to get tattooed. Our players traded on the benefits of being on the OSU football team. Such a practice, when not properly monitored, can lead to a competitive advantage.

Our coach lied about his knowledge of NCAA violations.

That said, We were going to go on being OSU regardless of extra benefits. Oregon is only Oregon because of extra benefits. (I speak of Knight, not Lyles.)

This. If players know that they can have additional benefits while playing at certain schools, then that's a competitive advantage.

Having the head coach lie (both to the institution and to the ncaa) about his knowledge of those benefits is a serious failure to monitor what's going on in your own program.

 

[Oh8ch]

This. If players know that they can have additional benefits while playing at certain schools, then that's a competitive advantage.

Having the head coach lie (both to the institution and to the ncaa) about his knowledge of those benefits is a serious failure to monitor what's going on in your own program.

And just to be clear - OSU has been severely punished. We now have to live with Urban Meyer as our coach.

I just LOVE to point out to my friends from other schools how much OSU is suffering as a result of our transgressions.

Reminds me of the time my wife caught me cheating on her and made me sleep with Jennifer Lopez every night for a month.

 

[ORD_Buckeye]

Well, considering that my comment was a direct response to the allegation that there was a multi-year, systemic practice of giving players gear to funnel through a broker for money and JT was either complicit or at least aware of it.....IF that had been proven....

Then yes, it would have been absolutely right if Ohio State shut the program down for a year or two, and I wouldn't have cared. Hell, I would have applauded the decision.

 

[MaliBuckeye]

And just to be clear - OSU has been severely punished. We now have to live with Urban Meyer as our coach.

I just LOVE to point out to my friends from other schools how much OSU is suffering as a result of our transgressions.

Reminds me of the time my wife caught me cheating on her and made me sleep with Jennifer Lopez every night for a month.

Wow... What did Jennifer Lopez do to deserve that?

 

[Coqui]

And just to be clear - OSU has been severely punished. We now have to live with Urban Meyer as our coach.

I just LOVE to point out to my friends from other schools how much OSU is suffering as a result of our transgressions.

Reminds me of the time my wife caught me cheating on her and made me sleep with Jennifer Lopez every night for a month.

Wait. Did Jennifer Lopez have to talk or not?

 

[ysubuck]

And just to be clear - OSU has been severely punished. We now have to live with Urban Meyer as our coach.

I just LOVE to point out to my friends from other schools how much OSU is suffering as a result of our transgressions.

Reminds me of the time my wife caught me cheating on her and made me sleep with Jennifer Lopez every night for a month.

This. It does seem that for every month that Ohio State was being dragged through the shit they came out smelling like a rose.

Even some of the national guys were laughing about the bowl ban.

"Great job NCAA, I'm sure the other coaches appreciate the fact that while they are preparing for their bowls Urban Meyer will be on the recruiting trail."

 

[TooTall]

This. It does seem that for every month that Ohio State was being dragged through the shit they came out smelling like a rose.

Even some of the national guys were laughing about the bowl ban.

"Great job NCAA, I'm sure the other coaches appreciate the fact that while they are preparing for their bowls Urban Meyer will be on the recruiting trail."

 

[localyokel]

I like to think of this next year as just a really long pre-season to 2013.

 

[darbypitcher22]

I like to think of this next year as just a really long pre-season to 2013.

This is the way a lot of people I know are thinking about it.

 

[BB73]

Greg-guh Doyle blasts the NCAA for indicating that it won't be hammering Oregon for their institutional cheating to get players. I agree with him, although he's off base in his comparison to Boise State (since their LOIC was related to non-football violations),

CBS

Nothing honest, unintentional about Oregon paying Lyles to deliver talent

 

[jlb1705]

Greg-guh Doyle blasts the NCAA for indicating that it won't be hammering Oregon...

Well, duh.

 

[knapplc]

It's good thing this doesn't happen on any other campus, any other football team. Especially not here in Lincoln, where all the kids are always pot-free.

"We smoked it all"

The sandwich bag brims with weed.

On a frosty January evening in Eugene, a University of Oregon student plops onto a couch, nestled between a whirring space heater and a muted television at a friend's off-campus apartment, and pulls a nugget from the bag. At his feet sits a backpack emblazoned with the logo of the Rose Bowl, which he and his teammates had won barely a week before. "Purple Kush," he says of his preferred marijuana strand, which he rolls into a hefty joint between his forefingers and thumbs. "It's pretty much all I smoke."


The joint, to which he adds a dash of tobacco to make a spliff, is typical for this student-athlete. "Bongs and pipes mean more evidence," he says. He lights up, kicks back and exhales a dense cloud. Normally, he'd pass the spliff to one of his Oregon football teammates, but tonight he smokes alone. "Most of the guys are waiting until after winter workouts," he says. Once those conclude in March, he adds, they'll gather in clusters to partake together. About half the team smokes, he estimates. "It's a team thing. Like video games."

 

[sepia5]

It's good thing this doesn't happen on any other campus, any other football team. Especially not here in Lincoln, where all the kids are always pot-free.

Recently, the researchers of a study in Sports Medicine wrote that athletes claim "smoking cannabis before play helps them focus better" and increases their creativity, and prior studies have found use among athletes to decrease anxiety, fear, depression and tension.

It certainly helps the Dude with his bowling score.