okaive
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No matter how long I live, Texas will always be a sore subject in my heart. It's bad enough I live less then 2 hrs away from them and have to see their emblem all the time on cars.
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No matter how long I live, Texas will always be a sore subject in my heart. It's bad enough I live less then 2 hrs away from them and have to see their emblem all the time on cars.
Coqui
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Then why do you hate the Big 10 which is under the Ivy league in terms of the epitome of an educational collective?
Coqui
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Just like living in Nebraska might about Nebraska
Or living in Ann Arbor might for Michigan
or Happy Valley for Penn State.
Yes you're going to have more die hard rabid fans the closer you live to the stadium.
da skers
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After meeting with the NCAA in August my guess would be that they won't be able to even play for the conference championship an its pretty likely they'll be ineligible for bowl games for at least two years. The only way I see this changing is if Smith is fired before the hearing. And I highly doubt they'll appeal any sanctions unless it calls for a major loss of scholarships. They already vacated wins which is usually a sticking point with appeals process.
Please read this article and tell me that he didn't have a habit of cheating the game going back 8 years at tOSU and then even at Youngstown State.
Highlights of the article are:
Story Highlights
Since 2002 at least 28 OSU players are alleged to have traded or sold memorabilia
Ex-Buckeye tells SI he and 'at least 20 others' swapped memorabilia for tattoos
Source tells SI that four Ohio State players traded memorabilia for marijuana
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/magazine/05/30/jim.tressel/index.html#ixzz1SUAHPnU
As coach at Youngstown (Ohio) State in the mid-1990s, he claimed not to know that his star quarterback had received a car and more than $10,000 from a school trustee and his associates -- even though it was later established in court documents that Tressel had told the player to go see the trustee.
In 2003, during Tressel's third season in Columbus, Buckeyes running back Maurice Clarett was found to have received money and other benefits. Even though Tressel said he spent more time with Clarett than with any other player, he also said he did not know that Clarett had been violating the rules.
During Jim Tressel's first four years on the sidelines of Ohio Stadium, then-athletic director Andy Geiger counseled his head football coach six times to improve his compliance with NCAA regulations. Geiger documented his coach's shortcomings in warning letters, and the compliance office in 2005-06 rated Tressel's performance in quickly reporting rules violations as "unacceptable." Other aspects of his compliance efforts were judged "excellent." link:http://www.woio.com/story/15088939/report-jim-tressel-had-compliance-issues-in-past
It sounds like instead of 2 violations, Mr Tressel was very good at not getting caught. Bernie Madoff had this same ability.
OSU is going to lose more ships than USC did. That is my guess. This has been going on for a long time with Tressel. Read up on the star QB that he set up to get bennies and 10k when he coached at YSU. He was behind all of it and it has since come out in legal proceedings.
When you read up on the last 15 years, it doesn't past the smell test. Tressel will set this program back at least 5 years and no way they will be playing in bowl this year. Most of this never sees the light of day if the Tattoo parlor wasn't wrapped up in a federal investigation. Bad timing but really a program that has been cheating for a long time.
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Coqui
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Yes. Damn. The worst word you could possibly ever utter.
And I love how 2 total riots (both in the 90s) are indicative of fan behavior 15 years after they occurred)
I guess I should hate Nebraska, because they feel they have to punch opposing teams fans? That must mean they all do that right?
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Coqui
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You mean the very article the star QB at YSU in question said was false? You mean the same Maurice Clarett that admitted Tressel didn't know what he was doing? Not sure what you're getting at, but there's been no proof of the habit of cheating for 8 years you state.
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knapplc
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Wait wat... ?
I've never even given you a warning.
Here's poor old me, minding my own business when suddenly BAM! I'm staring up at the transmission of a bus.
knapplc
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That's not surprising. I think AR has given pretty much everyone a warning at one point or another. He's entirely unreasonable. I think he's gone native down there in Little Rock.
