http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6230308&campaign=rss&source=ESPNUHeadlines In addition to players Terrelle Pryor, Mike Adams, Dan Herron, DeVier Posey and Solomon Thomas. Let's go Akron Zips for the upset!
again these guys and their coach arent going to miss anything ultra important. They should be suspended for their first 5 conference games of the season. make them miss something important
this is all show, the NCAA is going to hammer Ohio State. it is one thing for Ohio State to cry "I didn't know anything, please let our players play in the bowl game, it wouldn't be, you know, fair to the fans," and another to find out the coach knew all along and the players should have been ineligible for parts of the season to begin with. a coach covering up his players rules infractiosn is far worse than Reggie Bush's parents negotiating a house. if the NCAA doesn't strip them of the bowl win, make them forfeit their share of the game, ban them from bowls for at least two years and reduce their scholarships, there simply is no use in ever concerning yourself with NCAA punishment ever again.
Unless you're a player for a school without all that pull at the top, then if you find a ten dollar bill on the street you will continue to be suspended for at least a full season.
Damn.. Sounds a bit harsh, bro. ha If all that really happened, I would freak out. I'm not even going to get into all of this, but I think Tressel is taking the high road right now, and that is a start.
harsh? it is actually lenient. I hate USC, but the NCAA hit them hard for the actions of one player claiming an assistant coach, not even the head coach, "should have" known and that was all that mattered. here you have 5 players and the actual head coach who, in fact, did know. if Ohio State's penalty only matches USC's they should feel like they got off easy. these were minor infractions by the players, as opposed to Reggie Bush's, but the fact that Tressel covered them up multiplies them exponentially, in addition to that it is about his behavior, not the player's.
This is not a harsh penalty at all. Tressel obviously knew something and did not say anything. Serving the same suspension as his players seems right to me.
And the story just gets better.... Tressel sent emails to Pryor's "mentor" but not school officials. http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6257370 Ohio State coach Jim Tressel forwarded to a mentor of quarterback Terrelle Pryor emails that had warned the coach his players were in trouble, but Tressel did not forward the emails to school officials, The Columbus Dispatch reported Friday. Multiple sources told the newspaper that Tressel sent emails to Ted Sarniak, a businessman from Pryor's hometown of Jeannette, Pa., who has known Pryor for years. Tressel received emails from a Columbus attorney in April 2010 stating that Pryor and a teammate had been selling memorabilia items to a local tattoo-parlor owner under federal investigation. The Buckeyes coach didn't share the emails with any Ohio State staff members or NCAA officials investigating Pryor and five other players, resulting in an NCAA violation. Tressel has been suspended for the first five games of the 2011 season, in addition to being fined $250,000. Tressel nodded his head when asked at a March 8 news conference whether he had forwarded the emails to anyone. Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith prevented Tressel from elaborating, as the case is still under NCAA investigation. Ohio State didn't confirm the forwarded emails to Sarniak, telling The Dispatch it won't comment on the case until the NCAA investigation is concluded. Doug Archie, the school's compliance director, told the newspaper that Sarniak served as Pryor's primary contact during the recruiting process but isn't considered a booster. Archie said Ohio State reviewed the relationship between Pryor and Sarniak before Pryor enrolled at Ohio State and will continue to do so. "Mr. Sarniak and Terrelle Pryor have been friends for a number of years, and their friendship dates back prior to Terrelle's enrollment at Ohio State," Archie said in an email to The Dispatch. "As the friendship developed, Mr. Sarniak is someone who Terrelle has reached out to for advice and guidance throughout his high school and collegiate career." Sources told The Dispatch that Tressel sent the emails to Sarniak in hopes that he could counsel Pryor about the quarterback's actions.
