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

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this is what bothered me...true or not i just cant believe it
According to his fellow assistant, Tressel rigged the raffle so that the elite prospects won -- a potential violation of NCAA rules. Says the former colleague, who asked not to be identified because he still has ties to the Ohio State community, "In the morning he would read the Bible with another coach. Then, in the afternoon, he would go out and cheat kids who had probably saved up money from mowing lawns to buy those raffle tickets. That's Jim Tressel."
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There's too much to summarize. Not as huge as they made it sound, but there's still a lot of bad shit in that article. Trading stuff for weed, Tressel possibly rigging the raffles and setting up deals for cars/getting the YSU QB out of tickets, the insane amount of players who have traded stuff for cash/tattoos/cars.. not good. I only understand downplaying this if you're doing it in relativity to the hype it received.

It's still a huge story. Bad.
 
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OSU_Buckguy;1930430; said:
o noes. tressel rigged a raffle. we're doomed.
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Is the statute of limitations on alleged rigged raffles more than 25 years? If some of those kids were from out of state, I'm wondering if RICO statutes could be applied.









Yes, I'm joking.
 
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amybuckeye;1930440; said:
That was it. You got to be kidding me. Does this SI writer have an ego or what.....does he really think that this article made Tressell resign (fired) today? What a joke.:rofl::horse:
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Agreed, he does make a large amount of assumptions that OSU was "distancing" itself from Tressel simply due to the report.

What's more likely? Tressel was on vacation, already thinking over whether or not to resign. Hence the "dubious lack of response."
 
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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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Please. Only in the asinine world of college sports is selling your own property equal to murder. In the real world they simply call it good business. Like I've said before, if this is the worst they can dig up then I'll go on record and say that Tressel ran the cleanest program at a big time school. Hell they don't even have any proof, just the word of people whom we already know have questionable character.

I hope these "hard hitting" journalists take their asses down to SEC country next.
 
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i'm not sure how those two quotes are connected Jax. You go basically to make the argument that a tattoo isn't helping a kid out then go to another luxury item like a car. I'd say it's far more likely that he got straight up cash and then used it however he needed to.
 
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BB73;1930429; said:
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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I completely agree, and I'm sure my scarlet and grey colored glasses aren't helping give me a neutral and rational perspective. I also find myself a bit confused by the dud that was the SI story. My point is that I place a big division between violations of NCAA rules (which there appears to be a myriad of - which should result in sanctions, suspensions etc) and violations of the law.

Today and these last few months have left me a mixture of confused, angry, disgusted, outraged, ambivalent, and annoyed.

Less than 100 days till we can actually talk about a real game
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Lets pretend for a second that the bit about the DOJ alerting OSU to the fact a player got a vehicle for 4 tickets to the Rose Bowl is true.

Is that not kind of a big deal?
 
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