I Don't Think My "Comparisons to Ohio" Tag Does Enough Here

Ohio St suspends Tressel 2 games for violation - Yahoo! News

Seriously?  Does the NCAA have no teeth whatsoever?

Cam Newton's father sought explicit verbal consent for his son to play football for certain schools.  That's one step away from being able to broadcast Major League Baseball Games (just get it written).

This is weaker than when a group of Ohio State's players were suspended for the first few games of next season for improperly receiving benefits for football related services (in this case, tattoos for merchandise), as opposed to the bowl game these allegations appeared a few weeks before.

You see, when I first heard this story (the tattoo one, not Tressel), I was working under a few assumptions -- This had just happened recently, mid-season at the latest, nobody was aware they were violating any codes, and Jim Tressel and the University were both completely (or at least very) unaware of the whole thing.



Yeah, every single one of those assumptions was wrong.  It happened early, Jim Tressel knew about it, and with how many people and who was involved, if anybody was unaware this was an issue, well then wow.

So the players get 5 games (I think), and given that they were most likely to be unaware of the issue, I'd be more willing to be lenient there.

Jim Tressel, coach and administrator of the top national football program of Ohio State knew about these infractions, and knew about them early.  Given his position, he should at the very least be aware there is some sort of issue.  Given the AJ Green incident that started Georgia's football year, you'd think programs would be more vigilant of this sort of thing happening.

Jim Tressel gets a two game suspension.  He will not be able to coach on the field against the vaunted programs of Akron and Toledo.

It's kind of funny, you know, how this situation manages to prove both of my points.

-- Players are being targeted very closely for borderline infractions on outdated rules.
-- The players, and not the administrators and coaches who support the system, are the ones who are truly victimized by the system.

How is this fair on any level?

It just frustrates me to a level where I'm struggling to make one logical argument against this -- cos there are just soo many angles where this shit is going wrong.

Fucking Ohio.

-- Knuttel