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Yahoo, Tattoos, and tOSU (1-year bowl ban, 82 scholly limit for 3 years)

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this is not surprising in the least...i dont know how many players ive seen or know that have awesome cars that you have to wonder how they received them...i lived next door to shane olivea in 2002-2003 and he had the shittiest car i have ever seen...dude barely even fit in it...and he had that car until the day he was drafted by the chargers...and when he got drafted i think he went out and got a brand new S-10....point is JT should be getting on these kids like Robert Deniro in Goodfellas

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glSN4qvjt2E"]YouTube - Goodfellas - Don't buy anything! (De Niro)[/ame]
 
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y0yoyoin;1918457; said:
this is not surprising in the least...i dont know how many players ive seen or know that have awesome cars that you have to wonder how they received them...i lived next door to shane olivea in 2002-2003 and he had the shittiest car i have ever seen...dude barely even fit in it...and he had that car until the day he was drafted by the chargers...and when he got drafted i think he went out and got a brand new S-10....point is JT should be getting on these kids like Robert Deniro in Goodfellas

YouTube - Goodfellas - Don't buy anything! (De Niro)
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Do you not think the tOSU compliance dept should be playing a bigger role here as well as JT? This stinks and I don't like it one bit. We (me included) have all turned a blind eye towards this for several years now.
 
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MaxBuck;1918473; said:
The compliance people have responded that they vetted all the car deals, and that they saw no NCAA issues relative to them. This is sounding more and more like a big noise over very little.
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I agree with this and I know I wear the goggles....The problem is the perception is getting to the point where the NCAA wont care if this is bullshit and the Dispatch is in dire need of this scandle and they need to be at the forefront because it is in trouble (financially)....and they have an axe to grind with Tress...this is thier shot they have a big time story etc etc...doesnt matter the NCAA has enough and feels the pressure...this is my fear. Then we are Oklahoma in the 90's
 
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bassbuckeye07;1918477; said:
I agree with this and I know I wear the goggles....The problem is the perception is getting to the point where the NCAA wont care if this is bull[Mark May] and the Dispatch is in dire need of this scandle and they need to be at the forefront because it is in trouble (financially)....and they have an axe to grind with Tress...this is thier shot they have a big time story etc etc...doesnt matter the NCAA has enough and feels the pressure...this is my fear. Then we are Oklahoma in the 90's
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Yeah, but you're leaving out something pretty important - the NCAA has to prove that infractions actually occurred. They can't just say, "Well, this looks pretty bad to the general public, so we're cutting 25 scholarships and slapping a post-season ban on you."
 
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MaxBuck;1918473; said:
The compliance people have responded that they vetted all the car deals, and that they saw no NCAA issues relative to them. This is sounding more and more like a big noise over very little.
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The Dispatch article quoted your compliance guy - yesterday - as saying he would begin reviewing/investigating the sales to make sure no rules were broken. Is that story wrong Max, or are you saying the investigation was completed that quickly? In either case, do you have a link?

I see where Pryor's mom and brother bought cars too. Anyone know if only sales to players' cars are investigated, or if all sales, including those to family and friends of players on the examination table too?
 
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MaxBuck;1918473; said:
The compliance people have responded that they vetted all the car deals, and that they saw no NCAA issues relative to them. This is sounding more and more like a big noise over very little.
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Yeah the real issue here (ok a significant issue) is the leak in the athletic department, every little thing that compliance does shouldn't be landing on the front page of the Dispatch. Compliance reviewing things like car purchases is pretty standard protocol, any compliance department that's halfway competent is going to be doing this at least yearly..it's basically an audit of yourself. The "investigation" has nothing to do with compliance suspecting wrongdoing but this whole thing is just compounding on our PR nightmare when you've got people running to the dispatch with every single piece of info they've got.
 
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Gatorubet;1918482; said:
The Dispatch article quoted your compliance guy - yesterday - as saying he would begin reviewing/investigating the sales to make sure no rules were broken. Is that story wrong Max, or are you saying the investigation was completed that quickly? In either case, do you have a link?

I see where Pryor's mom and brother bought cars too. Anyone know if only sales to players' cars are investigated, or if all sales, including those to family and friends of players on the examination table too?
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Doug Archie said there was no evidence that any of the players' deals was a problem, but that he would re-review everything related to them. He also said he was not familiar with car purchases by family members, but that he would review those deals also. Same story, I think:

Ohio State to investigate players' car deals; Official: No known problems with dozens of sales
 
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It also sounds like K(n)iffin is in some deep, deep shit with the IRS, and may have been running a scam as well. If Gibson has been and still is paying off a car that is listed by other paperwork as a $0 sale, seems pretty obvious indicator of some shady back-business going on.
 
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Read until this point:

"The cars involved sold for the average price of $11,600."

That is questioned as being improper benefits??? My God, fucking football players drive cars too, people! Fuck it's like the media is grasping at anything that has Ohio State and a dollar sign in the same sentence. Give this shit up already.

And for that matter, who the fuck decides what a car is worth? KBB? Because it's not the law, and it is NOT uncommon for used car lots to sell cars for under that. Fuck!
 
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