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

[CONGERSBUCKEYE]

I really hope that someone inside OSU set this information up to determine who is the leak before Friday. I do believe ESPN is reporting this to help get public opinion up against us if the punishment is not harsh. The Big Ten Network is very concerning to ESPN and unfortunately for us alums and fans of our great University it is on the front lines. With the NFL Network the landscape of Sports Television and coverage is changing rapidly. Delany in my opinion needs to come more to our defense when these reports are unfounded and damages the Brand of the Big Ten. Joke and just makes ESPN money.

 

[BB73]

An article on how these types of hearings are played out.

Dispatch

NCAA hearing can be a 'free-for-all'

Ten-member Committee on Infractions will fire questions Friday, and OSU must answer

...
The hearing resembles a legal trial, but there are significant differences.

For one, Ohio State officials must answer every question posed to them. The Fifth Amendment protecting against self-incrimination cannot be invoked. They can consult with their attorney, but their attorney cannot speak for them
.
Any of the 10 Committee on Infractions members, who are drawn from inside and outside the NCAA membership, can ask questions. The committee is under the auspices of the NCAA but is independent of it. Members can be as pointed with enforcement staff as they are with school officials.

...
It bears repeating that the Committee on Infractions does not have to accept the NCAA's previous findings.

The folks that will be in the room tomorrow.

Dispatch

Committee on Infractions members


- Brian Halloran, managing director and general counsel of a renewable energy company
- John S. Black, Kansas City-based attorney
- Roscoe Howard, Washington-based attorney
- Gregory Sankey, Southeastern Conference assistant commissioner
- Britton Banowsky, Conference USA commissioner
- Melissa L. Conboy, Notre Dame senior deputy athletics director
- James O?Fallon, Oregon law professor and faculty athletics representative
- Rodney Uphoff, Missouri associate dean of academic affairs
- Dennis E. Thomas, Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference commissioner, committee chair
- Eleanor W. Myers, Temple law professor and faculty athletics representative

Ohio State representatives

- E. Gordon Gee, president
- Gene Smith, athletic director
- Luke Fickell, football coach
- Chris Culley, senior vice president and general counsel
- Julie Vannatta, senior assistant general counsel for athletics
- Doug Archie, compliance director
- John Bruno, faculty athletics representative

Also present

- Jim Tressel, former Ohio State football coach

 

[AKAK]

I wonder what they did to the Ombudsman. :frown2:

Well, he was investigating the railroading of Mike Leach... something about drunken pirates teachers and locked in the equipment room....

 

[AuTX Buckeye]

An article on how these types of hearings are played out.

Dispatch



The folks that will be in the room tomorrow.

Dispatch

Well shit... an Oregon Professor, and a member of the SEspnC... hopefully they will be objective..

 

[bassbuckeye07]

Well shit... an Oregon Professor, and a member of the SEspnC... hopefully they will be objective..

Could be to our advantage...they dont want to set a nasty standard

 

[knapplc]

Thank God the crack staff in Bristol jumped ALL THE HELL over this story. Because it means so much to know that the NCAA and Gee are pen pals.

 

[ArmyVet83]

Not too much the university can do. ESPN isn't really crossing any lines, they're just letting their douchebaggery run rampant. I would like to agree with you that Gameday would get even a cold shoulder, but the majority of fans would rather be on tv than take a stand.

I keep waiting for BKB to organize a counter offensive.

It amazes me how the media is granted the latitude to run with any story (truth or lie) they feel necessary without any reprecussions from the party referenced (in this case Ohio State). While OSU (JT and IDed players) put themselves in this position, the press SHOULD not have limitless flexibility to report any and all bullshit without some accountability.

Hell if this was one person spreading lies about another person, a serious beatdown would commence. I think its time someone hold these "sports journalist" accountable and responsible for their actions or I say we line em up and pummel the shit out of them. Personally, I would start with that pussy Hooley. Wothless pieces of shart!

 

[BUCKYLE]

The folks that will be in the room tomorrow.
Gregory Sankey, Southeastern
Conference assistant commissioner

Melissa L. Conboy, Notre Dame senior deputy athletics director
Dispatch

Kinda like letting China and North Korea judge the U.S. on civil rights.

 

[tsteele316]

Kinda like letting China and North Korea judge the U.S. on civil rights.

it's probably a good thing. the SEC doesn't want major penalties to flow because one of their own is heading towards a much bigger problem in the very near future.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

I don't understand how ESPN didn't get a rep on the committee.

 

[Pheasant]

I don't understand how ESPN didn't get a rep on the committee.

I don't care if the committee gets the death penalty now.

 

[Fungo Squiggly]

Columbus: Really? I think I'm just going to work on this crossword puzzle.

Still working on that one from your place mat at Denny's?

 

[stowfan]

I sure hope JT's claim holds up that the Justice Dept, or FBI (?) involvement clouded his judgment.

 

[Gatorubet]

Well [Mark May]... an Oregon Professor, and a member of the SEspnC... hopefully they will be objective..

Possessed of Satan...begin thy testimony!!!!

 

[Wingate1217]

I wonder if OSU somehow set ESPN up by leaking this non-story to put egg on ESPN's face whern the story ( I hope) turns out not to be true. I can only hope....