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

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"For more than a decade, Ohioans have viewed Tressel as a pillar of rectitude, and have disregarded or made excuses for the allegations and scandal that have quietly followed him throughout his career. His integrity was one of the great myths of college football. Like a disgraced politician who preaches probity but is caught in lies, the Senator was not the person he purported to be."

Sounds really neutral to me :bonk:
 
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Ohio State has conceded that six current players committed an NCAA violation by trading memorabilia for tattoos or cash at Fine Line Ink: Pryor, tackle Mike Adams, running back Dan Herron, wide receiver DeVier Posey, defensive end Solomon Thomas and linebacker Jordan Whiting. Ellis, who spent time in and around the tattoo parlor for nearly 20 months, says that in addition to those six, he witnessed nine other active players swap memorabilia or give autographs for tattoos or money. Those players were defensive back C.J. Barnett, linebacker Dorian Bell, running back Jaamal Berry, running back Bo DeLande, defensive back Zach Domicone, linebacker Storm Klein, linebacker Etienne Sabino, defensive tackle John Simon and defensive end Nathan Williams. Ohio State declined to make any of its current players available to respond to SI.
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other named players
 
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Let's assume everything in the SI story is true (a huge assumption). Would you rather have 20 plus players trading their memorabilia for tattoos, cash etc and violating rules or be Florida and have 20 plus players arrested in the same time period for breaking the law (drunk driving, domestic violence etc)?

I am not condoning what any of the OSU players may have done or what Tressel did or did not do, but I think perspective is important.
 
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EDDIE GGGG27;1930419; said:
Not the big deal it was made out to be.
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Seems like a lot of fluff to hide the fact that there is very little actual news in the story. You really have to dig long and hard to find the things of substance.

If the multi-paragraph intro talking about Tressel's character isn't proof that they didn't have much substance in the story (which they would almost certainly lead with or at least hint at if they had it) I don't know what is.
 
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DaBears;1930423; said:
Let's assume everything in the SI story is true (a huge assumption). Would you rather have 20 plus players trading their memorabilia for tattoos, cash etc and violating rules or be Florida and have 20 plus players arrested in the same time period for breaking the law (drunk driving, domestic violence etc)?

I am not condoning what any of the OSU players may have done or what Tressel did or did not do, but I think perspective is important.
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Clearly you were in a coma in late 03 through early 05.
 
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Thump said:
The line that bothered me most:
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In that context, yes. And I already know/knew that TP had that kind of attitude of getting what he wants. And it's true.

But I knew a walk-on at IU, and he could grab some extra gear if he wanted to. Probably not to the extent TP was doing it. But he gave away a few sweatshirts and shirts to his lady friends when they stayed over. He'd have something new the next day.
 
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DaBears;1930423; said:
Let's assume everything in the SI story is true (a huge assumption). Would you rather have 20 plus players trading their memorabilia for tattoos, cash etc and violating rules or be Florida and have 20 plus players arrested in the same time period for breaking the law (drunk driving, domestic violence etc)?

I am not condoning what any of the OSU players may have done or what Tressel did or did not do, but I think perspective is important.
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True, but if some of the guys were trading memorabilia for weed, as was claimed in the SI article, they broke actual laws as well as NCAA rules, even though they weren't arrested.
 
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Rose has no regrets. "I knew how much money that the school was making," he says. "I always heard about how Ohio State had the biggest Nike budget. I was struggling, my mom was struggling. ... It was just something that I had to do. I was in a hard spot. ... [Other] guys were doing it for the same reasons. The university doesn't really help. Technically we knew it was wrong, but a lot of those guys are from the inner city and we didn't have much, and we had to go on the best we could. I couldn't call home to ask my mom to help me out."
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Well either Robert Rose considers a tattoo a "need" OR he's saying that he gave memorabilia to Rife and company in return for something more than a tattoo.

Which kind of fits in with this (bold is mine)
The Department of Justice alerted Ohio State to a transaction in which an unnamed player gave Rife a watch and four tickets to the 2010 Rose Bowl in exchange for a Chevy Tahoe. That player, Ellis says, was Martin: "Jermil came in to the shop and said, 'Are we doing this deal on this truck?' They went outside, and Eddie signed the title over and Jermil shook his hand and off he went." Martin did not give Rife anything at that moment, Ellis says, but a short time later Rife said in a telephone call to Ellis that he was in Pasadena and that Martin had gotten him tickets.
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Tough to buy the "I know nothing" routine if this is true.
 
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