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

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I no longer trust Gene Smith to deal with this problem. No offense to Coach Fickell, but I'm not sure I trust him either given that all of this was happening and no one in the coaching staff either knew about it or did anything about it.

We need to bring in someone from the outside to deal with this. Not Thursday. Not after tommorrow's breakfast. Now. Yesterday.

We need a cleaner. We need... The Wolf.
 
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Gatorubet said:
The problem with someone so closely associated with a program is that any season ticket purchased, any money ever given any alumni or booster club, employing a kid, or helping to get any player a job - makes you a booster. Indefinitely. Season tickets five years ago? Booster.

To be fair, I know that letting a kid work for you makes you a booster if you pay him for a real job. I don't know what they say if you employ him illegally to sign stuff. I mean, I know it is improper, but I don't know if that gives him booster status if he did pay TP.
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if it does not, it should.

id also be willing to venture out that this likely is not the last questionable person on the will call list, take 85 scholarship athletes, 10 years, he will not be the last "name" we hear about, id assume.
 
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Bucknut24;1936428; said:
im confused here, if Ohio St tried to tell this guy to stay away, but he was still signing stuff for pryor anyways, how can Ohio St be at fault? I just don't see how this is so damaging right now
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Because it would follow that if the athletic department formally disassociated itself from Talbott, they did so for a reason. If they didn't self report that reason to the ncaa?.............big problem.
 
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Bucknut24;1936428; said:
im confused here, if Ohio St tried to tell this guy to stay away, but he was still signing stuff for pryor anyways, how can Ohio St be at fault? I just don't see how this is so damaging right now
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If he was - uh - "associating" with tOSU enough that he was asked to formally disassociate - that may well mean that a "booster" was improperly paying TP money. Not good.

But Hell, all we have is a story alleging shit. We've seen a bunch of stuff that was false in the press lately. Like Cam and his cash, while I might suspect it is true, I don't really have any hard evidence that the guy gave TP money or that the guy was asked to disassociate with tOSU.

Wait and see mode.
 
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Gatorubet;1936434; said:
If he was - uh - "associating" with tOSU enough that he was asked to formally disassociate - that may well mean that a "booster" was improperly paying TP money. Not good.

But Hell, all we have is a story alleging [Mark May]. We've seen a bunch of stuff that was false in the press lately. Like Cam and his cash, while I might suspect it is true, I don't really have any hard evidence that the guy gave TP money or that the guy was asked to disassociate with tOSU.

Wait and see mode.
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Four things are telling me this has legs. First, is the mention of checks being deposited in Pryor's account Second is ESPN claiming that they've independently verified Pryor's purchases of luxury goods. Third is the guy's name on the will call ticket list of certain player(s). Fourth is that the ad went through the steps of formally disassociating him from the program. If all these paper trails are true, it's probably the most damning thing yet to come down the pike.
 
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