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

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KingLeon;1885378; said:
Hey, I said if true.
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I wasn't calling you out, just pointing out that it goes from worrying about vacating the entire season to righteously shoving it in those Yahoo bastards faces at the press conference... and will most likely go through that cycle many more times between now and 7.
 
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From Dave Maetzoid 610 wtvn radio....you would think a local sport guy in C-Bus would tend to give the local university football coach the benefit of the doubt....but you would be wrong...

We just love to tear people down in this country...What a shame..:(

The first and only question that matter is; "When did you know?" The follow up questions are: "If you knew 8 months ago, what did you do about it?" and "Who else in the athletic department did you share the information with?"

Tressel is a wiggler. He's a smart man who knows how to explain things in such as a way as to believe anything is plausible.

He'll need to be truthful in how he re-assembles the time-line. Anything that doesn't add up will be sniffed out eventually.

It'll be intriguing to see how the spin doctors at Ohio State control the flow of information in protection of the cash generating football program.

http://www.610wtvn.com/pages/pp_davemaetzold.html
 
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BrowardBuck;1885376; said:
They are hinting at good news on the Scout free board. Some are pointing to info they got on the premium boards. Also walking of tweets from Ken Gordon and others stating there will be no resignation or firing. Things may not be as bad as some are hinting?

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I think "good news" is a relative concept right now.
 
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Bad time to be updating the site today.
 
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FritoBandito;1885347; said:
At this point, none of us knows where the truth lies in all of this. But we have seen firsthand the reaction of tOSU administration thus far. Observing the school's official spin doctors in action can be pretty revealing.

Ask yourselves a couple of questions:

1. If the Yahoo story is accurate and has uncovered the worst case scenario we all fear, how would tOSU orchestrate its public response?

2. If the story is not accurate (or can never be definitively proved), how would tOSU respond to a skeptical national media that wants to believe it?

If the Yahoo story is true, you take a long time before responding officially, to gather all the facts and to take whatever disciplinary steps you must. You then hold a press conference announcing your findings of fact and the disciplinary actions you've taken. You involve both the A.D. and the President of the University in the press conference -- because the ramifications of the story will profoundly effect the OSU and its national reputation.

If it's false, you say so publicly right away. You can't let something like this just hang out in the media unchallenged. You demand that Yahoo reveal its sources and substantiate its story immediately. And you announce that you are giving the NCAA access to any and all email and phone logs that might shed light on the truth. You do this through your A.D. and his communications staff -- you don't dirty the hands of the President of the University in a food fight with an Internet reporter.

Now ask yourself, "Which course has tOSU chosen to pursue?"

This episode may have a happy ending, but the behavior of tOSU administration in the hours since the story first appeared sure doesn't offer us much hope.
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Or you can respond quickly like Oregon and look like idiots.
 
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BrowardBuck;1885376; said:
They are hinting at good news on the Scout free board. Some are pointing to info they got on the premium boards. Also walking of tweets from Ken Gordon and others stating there will be no resignation or firing. Things may not be as bad as some are hinting?

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Ken Gordon removed that tweet already
 
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scarletmike;1885316; said:
If it would have actually been an email amongst the many hundreds I'm sure JT receives every day, and was not specific or direct, why should there be any weight given to that email? To me, personally questioning players and possibly bringing it up in passing in a meeting should be more than enough.

Filtering stuff like that is for the compliance department, right? If they got word of it as nothing more than a vague email similar to hundreds they have received before, why should it carry any weight?

I don't know, but for me, it just seems that this is the direction the allegations are coming from. A true inside source that knew names and individual circumstances seems highly unlikely, unless squelched by the Feds. In which case, there should be no real problem if the silence was directed by the Feds regarding an on-going investigation, right?
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Needles in haystacks. Problem is, Hindsight is 20/20... what was cryptic then might be obvious now.

AJHawkfan;1885313; said:
Well, then in December, they should have acknowledged the fact that they were made aware of the incident in April, and not on December 8th, when the Feds informed them. I think that 8 month lag is the crux of the issue here.
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It certainly is, but, what are we basing concept of "aware" on. My point being that there may not have been actionable information until the 8th... and there is no proof that Ohio State didn't tell the NCAA that there were signs that they couldn't verify before that and after that fact they may have already provided that information.

Saw31;1885315; said:
I brought up the same point earlier today. Unless Tress knew the who/when/where, I'm not sure what more can be done besides getting the team together and asking them on their honor is this is true. If they lied, then what?
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My bad, Saw... I missed that.

Bucklion;1885328; said:
That's part of it though, did he in fact filter it to the compliance department...
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I just have trouble beleiveing he didn't unless it was so damned generic that no one knew what to do with it.
 
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Buckeye86;1885381; said:
I wasn't calling you out, just pointing out that it goes from worrying about vacating the entire season to righteously shoving it in those Yahoo bastards faces at the press conference... and will most likely go through that cycle many more times between now and 7.
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Haha yeah I know I was just playing, and I'm sure that it will.
 
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