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

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BuckeyeNation27;1934581; said:
it's ok though because 74 Pulitzer Prize winners flocked to Norman to burn the university to the ground....they just found nothing shady going on.

oh wait....there was no crusade that time.
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The kids judgement at times may be questionable or downright bad but it sounds like he really likes OSU and wants to leave a legacy the right way despite the screw ups. Hopefully his judgement will improve in the future as he matures.
 
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stowfan;1934625; said:
It appears TP doesn't want to leave, which seems baffling to me?
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I don't see what's so baffling about it...just because you violate NCAA rules doesn't mean that you hate the University you've associated with since being a sophomore in high school.

It's not like he's some rotten to the core evil-doer.
 
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The one thing that annoys me about this whole situation is the fact that people are blaming the media completely. With a string of 8 BCS games in 10 years, you are going to draw attention (and hate)....plain and simple. I find it sort of sad that local reporters don't snuff out some of this stuff early on before it escalates to a Yahoo.....or SI. It makes our fan base look out of touch and completely naive to some extent. Having lived in Columbus for 7 years now I somewhat reflect the blame on local media for not giving this kind of coverage any legs. We have three networks here in Columbus and no one gives any different news on the Bucks... hell, the weather gets a more diverse batch of coverage. There is a fine line between favorable coverage and being a complete homer. It's sort of ironic that I bring this up in the TP thread, as I was a long time homer on his end. I guess what I'm trying to say is that we all need to see some things at face value from time to time and take the glasses off.

Ohio State [censored]ed up....they are being piled on for the time being, that is until some other story grabs national attention and all of the satellite trucks flock out to whatever city that is in. Maybe at BP we have a responsibility to begin to take the glasses off (when warranted) and start to scoop these kinds of stories, or at least give them a better set of legs. :wink:

Obviously I love Ohio State football, but as I have stated lately I am jaded by the direction of college football and the business it has become. I feel it forced a good man out of the helm here and it has overrun our program with everything that is trending wrong in college football. Even if it was silly stuff......we've got to get back to being a college team, with an emphasis on team. Same goes for BP, let's become a solid voice for Ohio State football (what I feel it was founded upon by the C-Dog) and not be afraid to scoop a story if it is for the good of our program (long term). There are a lot of guys on this site who are in the know. . I've started to ramble here, but I just am trying to get some of the thoughts that have collected in my mind for some time now. Perhaps I am way off base, as I am not as eloquent in getting my point across as I'd like at times.

Sorry for getting derailed on TP here, but as I said before, I feel that him committing here became the gasoline on a hot set of coals.
 
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daddyphatsacs;1934631; said:
The one thing that annoys me about this whole situation is the fact that people are blaming the media completely. With a string of 8 BCS games in 10 years, you are going to draw attention (and hate)....plain and simple. I find it sort of sad that local reporters don't snuff out some of this stuff early on before it escalates to a Yahoo.....or SI. It makes our fan base look out of touch and completely naive to some extent. Having lived in Columbus for 7 years now I somewhat reflect the blame on local media for not giving this kind of coverage any legs. We have three networks here in Columbus and no one gives any different news on the Bucks... hell, the weather gets a more diverse batch of coverage. There is a fine line between favorable coverage and being a complete homer. It's sort of ironic that I bring this up in the TP thread, as I was a long time homer on his end. I guess what I'm trying to say is that we all need to see some things at face value from time to time and take the glasses off.

Ohio State [censored]ed up....they are being piled on for the time being, that is until some other story grabs national attention and all of the satellite trucks flock out to whatever city that is in. Maybe at BP we have a responsibility to begin to take the glasses off (when warranted) and start to scoop these kinds of stories, or at least give them a better set of legs. :wink:

Obviously I love Ohio State football, but as I have stated lately I am jaded by the direction of college football and the business it has become. I feel it forced a good man out of the helm here and it has overrun our program with everything that is trending wrong in college football. Even if it was silly stuff......we've got to get back to being a college team, with an emphasis on team. Same goes for BP, let's become a solid voice for Ohio State football (what I feel it was founded upon by the C-Dog) and not be afraid to scoop a story if it is for the good of our program (long term). There are a lot of guys on this site who are in the know. . I've started to ramble here, but I just am trying to get some of the thoughts that have collected in my mind for some time now. Perhaps I am way off base, as I am not as eloquent in getting my point across as I'd like at times.

Sorry for getting derailed on TP here, but as I said before, I feel that him committing here became the gasoline on a hot set of coals.
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Evidently you missed the local news stakeout of Pryor at his apartment trying to determine what kind of car he was driving.
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;1934657; said:
Looks like yet another recap to me.
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I don't like the part about the auditors reporting to the AD that the football programs car use needed further inspection and that 44 cars had unregistered plates...seems weird. The recommendation that they take better control of their inventory on equipment is also interesting to say the least....

The OSU auditors wrote in November that the department needed to pay more attention to athletes' cars, particularly those driven by football players, and needed more control over the inventory of uniforms and equipment.
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NCAA rules prohibit athletes from keeping their uniforms until their college careers are completed, according to the audit report. However, they can purchase equipment at the fair-market value under certain circumstances. It's unknown whether any of the equipment seized during the raid had been purchased by the football players.
In May, The Dispatch found that:
At least eight athletes and 11 relatives of athletes had purchased vehicles from the same salesman in the past five years. The salesman then confirmed to The Dispatch that he had sold nearly 50 vehicles to OSU athletes or their family members in recent years. OSU compliance officials said they would investigate and later said they would wait for investigators from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles to finish examining the role of the dealers in the sales.
At least nine players had been issued traffic citations in Franklin County while driving vehicles with dealer license plates. OSU compliance officials said the majority of those players purchased used cars and were given a dealer license plate while waiting for the new registrations. Archie said "you would have to ask the dealers" as to why the players' cars had hard license plates as opposed to the cardboard temporary tags that typically are issued.
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But last year, the auditors reviewed car registrations of 152 athletes and observed vehicles driven by football players to spring practice. Auditors found that 44 athletes bought parking permits for, received parking tickets in, or were seen driving cars that weren't registered.
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billmac91 said:
I don't like the part about compliance reporting to the AD that the football programs car use needed further inspection and that 44 cars had unregistered plates...seems weird.
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dealer plates and temp tags are different. in our situation....I would think dealer plates are worse. temp tags happen when a new car is purchased (usually). dealer plates mean the car doesn't belong to who is driving it. that seems (and probably is) shady. 44 times in 1 year something happened that required a football player to be "test driving" a dealership car?
 
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billmac91;1934680; said:
I don't like the part about compliance reporting to the AD that the football programs car use needed further inspection and that 44 cars had dealer plates...seems weird, unless I'm confusing what a "dealer plate" is. Isn't that the same as a temporary tag?
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If i'm not mistaken, a dealer tag are the metal plates dealers use to transport cars and test drive. They usually just have magnets on the back to stick to various cars.
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billmac91;1934680; said:
I don't like the part about the auditors reporting to the AD that the football programs car use needed further inspection and that 44 cars had unregistered plates...seems weird. The recommendation that they take better control of their inventory on equipment is also interesting to say the least....
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BuckeyeNation27;1934682; said:
dealer plates and temp tags are different. in our situation....I would think dealer plates are worse. temp tags happen when a new car is purchased (usually). dealer plates mean the car doesn't belong to who is driving it. that seems (and probably is) shady. 44 times in 1 year something happened that required a football player to be "test driving" a dealership car?
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I don't see the part about 44 cars with dealer plates. It only says that 44 cars were unregistered. I took that as not registered with the compliance office since the paragraph before talks about the car registry maintained by University Transportation and Parking.
 
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Cincinnatibuck;1934711; said:
I don't see the part about 44 cars with dealer plates. It only says that 44 cars were unregistered. I took that as not registered with the compliance office since the paragraph before talks about the car registry maintained by University Transportation and Parking.
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You might be right...I guess more clarity from the author would have helped. The biggest take-away for me, is the auditors recommendation of better equipment inventory, especially since they released findings in November, and in October there was a police report filed. Might be a coincidence, but maybe it's not...

And the 44 unregistered vehicles seems really high...would like more clarity on what that actually means.
 
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