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

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southcampus;1936845; said:
That doesn't make it any less depressing. As a student, it makes me cringe to hear about these kids that get to go to school for free, they get their major expenses taken care of, and they are the most popular kids on campus, yet they feel like they should sell their [Mark May] because "they need to drape in gucci." I have zero sympathy for people trying to play the "i need to drape in gucci" card.
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buckeyesin07;1936693; said:
I beg to differ on the ebay issue. I found it interesting when watching an interview on ESPN last night that the interviewee (I believe he was a reporter connected with the OTL story) cited the plethora of signed TP items on ebay. I immediately thought that concluding an NCAA violation is going on simply on the basis of a number of items purportedly signed by a college football player being listed for sale on ebay sounded a bit specious, so I looked on ebay and found many items for sale that are purportedly signed by Andrew Luck of Stanford. Now, I don't think anyone is accusing him of anything, so it goes to show that type of logic is a bit misplaced.
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Can't say anything one way or another about Luck. The thing is, though, is that it is compliance's job to look at these ebay auctions and find out wtf is going on. I have no doubt that they looked at these auctions to find out wtf was going on. But, they apparently didn't do anything about it. Autographed memorabilia for cash is not some new invention that took everyone by surprise in it's cleverness. And ebay is not some super secret website that no ones knows about. No one was funneling these items through some 3rd world country to hide it's origins. It's BASIC compliance monitoring. They're supposed to be running a world class University over there. Some 20 year old better not be out-smarting them or else this shit is gonna go fucking nuclear fallout bad...

"Dude, how many fucking autographs have you been giving out? You been walking around campus signing everything in sight? There's only a few times and places where team activities allow the time for autographs. You must be one fast signing motherfucker for all this to be out there. 4,000 mini-fucking-helmets? From the same ebay account? How the fuck you do all that? What the fuck are you doing out there? Not gonna tell me? You're sitting until we figure it out then. Oh, and by the way, where the fuck are you cleats, shoulder pads and jerseys?"


BASIC compliance monitoring.
 
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ttk;1936833; said:
Well, in the court of public opinion, it definitely matters. It wouldn't matter if it was a court of law, but then again we're talking about the NCAA, who thinks that the word "precedent" can't possibly apply to college football, even though our nation's entire system of justice somehow makes it work.
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Not surprising that a USC fan would come here and start throwing out the "precedent" word, since your fanbase has essentially screamed itself hoarse demanding the death penalty for tOSU.

I'm not at the moment suggesting we shouldn't get the death penalty, BTW. In this case, I'm inclined to let the process play out and accept whatever the NCAA decides is just.
 
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Something that I haven't seen discussed, but I'm starting to find it a little strange is that Pryor essentially hit campus his freshman year and immediately plugged into all of this [Mark May]: Fine Line Ink, Talbott, the loaner cars. One could plausibly think that he'd at least need a year to kind of get his feet under him, put out and receive feelers as to the where, who and how this might be done.

Yet, it all seemed to be waiting for him.
 
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ORD_Buckeye;1936864; said:
Something that I haven't seen discussed, but I'm starting to find it a little strange is that Pryor essentially hit campus his freshman year and immediately plugged into all of this [Mark May]: Fine Line Ink, Talbott, the loaner cars. One could plausibly think that he'd at least need a year to kind of get his feet under him, put out and receive feelers as to the where, who and how this might be done.

Yet, it all seemed to be waiting for him.
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There is definitely a cultural problem here, but I'm not sure why you think it would take a year to start getting stuff.

The nation was enamored with him before he even signed.
 
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ORD_Buckeye;1936864; said:
Something that I haven't seen discussed, but I'm starting to find it a little strange is that Pryor essentially hit campus his freshman year and immediately plugged into all of this [Mark May]: Fine Line Ink, Talbott, the loaner cars. One could plausibly think that he'd at least need a year to kind of get his feet under him, put out and receive feelers as to the where, who and how this might be done.

Yet, it all seemed to be waiting for him.
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it's kind of endearing that you think one of the most heralded football recruits of all-time needed anything more than five minutes in columbus to make the necessary connections.
 
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jwinslow;1936865; said:
There is definitely a cultural problem here, but I'm not sure why you think it would take a year to start getting stuff.

The nation was enamored with him before he even signed.
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Don't disagree. It just strikes me as eerie that he could plug into so many "deals" so quickly. I'm sure that it's something the ncaa will be looking into. Just wonder what our AD's answer is going to be.
 
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ORD_Buckeye;1936864; said:
Something that I haven't seen discussed, but I'm starting to find it a little strange is that Pryor essentially hit campus his freshman year and immediately plugged into all of this [Mark May]: Fine Line Ink, Talbott, the loaner cars. One could plausibly think that he'd at least need a year to kind of get his feet under him, put out and receive feelers as to the where, who and how this might be done.

Yet, it all seemed to be waiting for him.
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We certainly hope not, but it is plausible that all that stuff had been institutionalized.

However, I doubt that characterization is how it really works. Players don't have to look for jocksniffers. Jocksniffers find them.
 
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