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

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79Redmen;1937809; said:
Article -- calling out NCAA to (MarkMay) or get off the pot.
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Well, it looks as if Elvis has indeed left the building: NCAA no longer on campus

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? Ohio State President Gordon Gee says NCAA investigators left campus a week ago following their review of reports about players selling or trading memorabilia for cash and tattoos.

The revelations about the tattoo deals ultimately led to football coach Jim Tressel's resignation under pressure on Memorial Day. Gee also confirmed that despite leaving the university Tressel would still pay a $250,000 fine for breaking NCAA rules.

The NCAA is also investigating whether players received preferential treatment when buying cars.

Gee said Thursday that NCAA investigators talked to individuals but wouldn't comment on who was interviewed or what other action was taken.

Ohio State will go before the NCAA's committee on infractions on Aug. 12.
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That actually seems really quick, to me. If what Pryor's lawyer is claiming has any kind of truth to it, there might be a lot of smelly smoke from a really small grass and plastic fire that results in not too much more than a minor burn after all.

Of course, that is all the optimist side of me speaking.
 
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Buckeye86;1937819; said:
Mirror Lake?

Buckeye Lake is a little east of campus.
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I know. I'm talking about the former home of the Grateful Dead on I-70. As would be explained by...

y0yoyoin;1937826; said:
they are attending all the hookahvilles at buckeye lake until aug 12th actually
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Similar to the hiring hackers for your network security. The NCAA compliance staff are all abusers of some vice. :wink:
 
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Divided42;1937603; said:
The school has the ability look into their student athletes bank account records, its something you give up to be a scholarship athlete. So if that is true and its also true that OSU had this guy disassociated from the program then OSU is in deep deep [Mark May]. The plausible deniability that Smith, Gee, and the compliance department has been holding onto so far would be gone. There is no way they shouldn't have known about it.
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Good to know. I did not know if the school would have the ability to know of all of a player's accounts or just the ones he told them about.
 
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Divided42;1937603; said:
The school has the ability look into their student athletes bank account records, its something you give up to be a scholarship athlete. So if that is true and its also true that OSU had this guy disassociated from the program then OSU is in deep deep [Mark May]. The plausible deniability that Smith, Gee, and the compliance department has been holding onto so far would be gone. There is no way they shouldn't have known about it.
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I'll disagree partially, in that I don't think monitoring of student-athletes' bank accounts is routine. There's also no guarantee that Pryor gave the athletic department any information regarding the account in which he's alleged to have deposited Talbott checks. I understand he's supposed to do so, but he seems to have ignored other rules, so ...
 
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MaxBuck;1937836; said:
I'll disagree partially, in that I don't think monitoring of student-athletes' bank accounts is routine. There's also no guarantee that Pryor gave the athletic department any information regarding the account in which he's alleged to have deposited Talbott checks. I understand he's supposed to do so, but he seems to have ignored other rules, so ...
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I agree that it's probably not routine to monitor the bank accounts. But after an athlete is found to have accepted improper benefits, it might be more common than it otherwise would be. I don't really know if compliance departments are expected to review bank accounts in those instances, and whether not doing so would put an athletic department into the 'failure to monitor' area. But that's a concern for me.

If an athlete wanted to receive improper benefits, and knew that his compliance department was aware of a certain bank account, he obviously would be very unwise to deposit checks from a memorabilia dealer into that account. But at this point, whatever the truth is regarding the alleged checks being deposited, I wouldn't be surprised.
 
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I would assume that is not routine as well, however it should be during a thorough investigation into memorabilia for tattoo's, cash, etc that University was supposed to have done. I mean Terrelle was part of the originial 5 that they got from the DOJ that were named in the email right? How can you assure the public during a press conference that this was an isolated incident and not a systematic thing when you didn't do something as basic as checking the most recognizable and public player on the team's bank account records for anything suspicious. Especially when said player was one of the players named who you were supposed to be checking into first.
 
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Divided42;1937844; said:
... when you didn't do something as basic as checking the most recognizable and public player on the team's bank account records for anything suspicious. Especially when said player was one of the players named who you were supposed to be checking into first.
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Not really within the school's right to check TP's bank account.

The IRS may want a look at it now, though.
 
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