“The Buckeyes already have received their Big Ten championship rings, and athletic director Gene Smith said they won’t be recalled.”

“It also remains unclear whether players will receive the gold pants charms traditionally given for beating Michigan.”

“It’s too bad the way it’s all panned out, but in our eyes we know we played those games,” Homan said. “I will always believe we won every one of those games fairly, and I will still see us as Big Ten champs and Sugar Bowl champs.”

“I’ll be shocked and disappointed and on the offensive,” Gene Smith said, if the NCAA adds punishments that cause students or the school to lose money. “Unless something new arises from where we are today, it’ll be behavior (from me) you haven’t witnessed.”

“Besides agreeing to change his (Tressel’s) resignation to retirement, Ohio State backed off its vow to collect a $250,000 fine for violating NCAA rules. Tressel argued that he had paid enough, Elliott said.”

“Before his resignation, Tressel was to have been sanctioned with a five-game suspension in addition to being fined. Instead, the university will pay him $52,250 – the equivalent of the salary and benefits he would have earned through the end of June 30th.”

I can’t see how the NCAA won’t blast OSU when the time comes in August. The complete lack of contrition or guilt is typical of Ohio State.икониПравославни иконииконопис

Stephen Lee · Los Angeles, California
Call me an optimist but I see us winning every single game on this schedule. The period at the end of my previous sentence needs to be emphasized. I believe in our ability to go undefeated every single year due to the absolute fact that we have one of the best defenses in college football. I’ll be honest, I cringe when we’re on offense at times, but when we’re on defense, I know we’re going to shine 9 out of 10 times, and that statistic is a fact, I’ve done the research. Believing is half the battle my friends, so eliminate your doubts, look at our stellar record in years previous and have faith that history will repeat itself as it always does. We will have a great season, ban or no ban, and we will be on top as we so rightly deserve due to all the hard work put in by our amazing coaching staff and ridiculously talented players. Go Bucks, always and forever.

7/10/11 – Former Ohio State commitment commits to the University of Michigan!

6/21/11 – Ohio State commitment, Kyle Kalis decommits from TOSU. Bye bye!

6/21/11 – Ohio State commitment, Kyle Kalis will be visiting the University of Michigan this weekend (June 25th).

6/20/11 – Andre Pipkins leaves Ohio State out of his top seven final schools of Michigan, Alabama, Oregon, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Florida.

6/19/11 – Se’von Pittman (highly sought by Buckeyes) commits to Michigan State.

6/16/11 – Ejuan Price seeks release from Ohio State and doesn’t report with incoming freshmen.

6/13/11 – Kyle Dodson (highly recruited by the Buckeyes) commits to Wisconsin.

6/10/11 – Ohioan Tom Strobel (highly recruited by Buckeyes) commits to Michigan.

OSU commit, Bri’onte Dunn visits Michigan.

1 – All 2010 wins and 2011 bowl victory will be vacated which means your consecutive Big Ten Title streak ended at five;

2 – Previous seasons’ wins vacated as well;

3 – Two year bowl ban;

4 – Two year Big Ten Championship game ban;

5 – Four years probation;

6 – Loss of 30 football scholarships over three years;

7 – Possible suspension of more football players; and

8 – Possible dismissal of Posey, Herron, Thomas, and Adams from team.

Terrelle Pryor made thousands of dollars autographing memorabilia in 2009-10, a former friend who says he witnessed the transactions has told “Outside the Lines.”

Pryor’s former friend also told “Outside the Lines” that the player often received preferential treatment in the Columbus community, receiving thousands of dollars in free food at local restaurants and convenience stores, free drinks at bars and free tattoos. In addition, he said the quarterback had access to free loaner cars from local dealerships.

It’s all over now!

Larry is probably having quite a bit of angst now that Terrelle Pryor’s former friend came out and stated that Pryor made up to $40k autographing Buckeye memorabilia, “received preferential treatment in the Columbus community, receiving thousands of dollars in free food at local restaurants and convenience stores, free drinks at bars and free tattoos. In addition, he said the quarterback had access to free loaner cars from local dealerships.”

Hey James, you’re a complete idiot!

“There is no scintilla of evidence related to 90 percent of those kids listed in the Sports Illustrated article that they did anything wrong,” James said. “That’s the way it’s going to turn out, I believe. It’s just irresponsible reporting.” Well which is it Larry? On one hand, you claim that no scintille of evidence currently exists but in the next moment, you admit that you are merely speculating and really don’t know how it is going to turn out in the future.

“For all nine, if there are 50 pieces at issue, we have 48 of them,” James said. “There might be a misplaced necklace or something, but they’re pretty much all there.” Are you now admitting that 10% are guilty as charged and that you still account for all memorabilia? If they still sold 2 out of 50 items, aren’t they all guilty as charged?

Hey Larry, when you line up every current OSU player with every piece of memorabilia ever given to each one of them along with items stolen from the equipment room and later sold then maybe I’ll believe you. Until then, keep spreading the party line, it’s what OSU fans want to hear.

A defense to a defamation action is that the alleged defamatory statements were made in good faith and with the reasonable belief that they were true. Generally with newspaper reporters, who are trying to report news, they must carefully check multiple sources of the facts before printing those facts as news. As long as they have made this effort then the statements printed are generally treated as true whether or not they really are. Truth is a defense to a defamation action.

The question for Storm Klein’s father and Barbie Carpenter is whether Sports Illustrated carefully checked multiple sources prior to printing its story on numerous Ohio State football violations. Do you ever wonder why newspapers always print, “Multiple attempts to contact Storm Klein went unanswered prior to publishing this story”? Because it serves as part of their defense to a later defamation action. A defendant can say that it not only carefully checked multiple sources but that it went directly to the accused and gave him a chance to respond prior to publication.

So idiots like Storm Klein’s father have less of a case when they get pissed off over what was printed.

SI: “Well Mr. Klein, is your son’s phone number xxx-xxxx?”

Mr. Klein: “Why yes it is.”

SI: “And is your son’s email address sklein@osu.eud?”

Mr. Klein: “Why yes it is.”

SI: “Well we left three voicemails at that number and sent five emails to that address but your son never responded when we gave him the chance to refute what was printed. Why are you complaining now?”

Even if Klein was able to show liability, he still must prove damages. Are they going to pay some NFL draft guru $250 an hour to testify how Storm Klein’s draft status dropped from 4th round to 7th round and he lost millions of dollars as a result of the statements? Good luck, as that is all speculation and very difficult to prove. Last I checked, Klein’s draft status was zero anyways. How was he damaged then?

Torgerson asked Circle K what he thought of Michigan Athletic Director Dave Brandon’s comments concerning the Ohio State fiasco. Of course, Torgerson only read a portion of those comments. The entirety of which was -

“We focus on Michigan,” Brandon explained to Frank Beckmann on WJR-AM 760 Detroit. “We can’t control any of the stuff that’s going on in Columbus, or at Penn State, or at Nebraska, or any of the other programs we’re going to tee it up against this fall. We’re about focusing on Michigan.

“As I said, Ohio State’s gonna show up. They’ve got great athletes down there, great tradition, terrific rivalry – there will be no problem getting them up for coming up here to Ann Arbor, and playing Michigan in the Big House.”

“We’re gonna have to be ready and prepare like we do every year,” he said, “and we’ve gotta do a heckuva lot better than we have the last several years. This is not a time for us to be beating our chest; this is a time for us to be working hard because we’ve got to claw our way back and make our side of this rivalry much tougher than it’s been over the last few years.”

Circle Dumbass responded by saying that Brandon must have meant by his comments that “We don’t have any room to talk and we sucked anyways” (or words to that effect).

These homers are terrible! Brandon took the high road and Krenzel gave him zero credit. And, by the way, Craigie, Michigan has plenty of room to talk. Ohio State’s NCAA violations were far worse than Michigan’s and the penalties will reflect that.
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OSU basketball player must defend himself for saying that it was no secret that Buckeye football players were driving nice cars

My intent is all a moot point anyway. So many of you are calling me out for throwing my alma mater under the bus, while I see it the exact opposite way – I’m holding my alma mater accountable. No, scratch that. I’m holding my alma mater’s football team accountable (it might be hard to believe, but OSU has plenty more to offer than just a football team – like this for example). Instead of brushing things under the rug and trying to justify and defend everything that the football team is being accused of, I’m of the opinion that acknowledging flaws is not only the right thing to do, it’s the healthy thing to do as well. I know how important the football team is to the school and I know that to many people around the country, the football team is really the only thing they think about when someone says “Ohio State.”

OSU Fans are complete idiots!

Fiction: “Just so much of the country is shifting to the south, so if you’re the Big Ten, you’ve got to go where the people are. You’ve got to start reaching down to Florida, which I think Ohio State in the last two or three years has done well, reaching more down south and getting guys out of Florida. ”

Fact: Ohio State currently has seven players on their roster from Florida:

Jaamal Berry
Etienne Sabino
Jordan Hall
Travis Howard
Orhian Johnson
Carlos Hyde
Michael Brewster

Haubert seems to ignore the fact that Michigan has nine players on their roster from Florida:

Denard Robinson
Vincent Smith
Jeremy Gallon
Vladimir Emillen
Brandin Hawthorne
Martavious Odoms
Mike Jones
Brendan Gibbons
Ricky Barnum

And somehow Ohio State gets mentioned as the recruiting power in Florida. Whatever!

How about Purdue?

O.J. Ross
Antwon Higgs
Al-Terek McBurse
Gary Bush
E.J. Johnson
Robert Marve
Antavian Edison
Jonathan Linkenheimer
Rob Henry
Charlton Williams
Ricardo Allen
Ishmael Aristide
Josh Johnson
Chris Quinn
Normando Harris
Jarrett Dieudonne
Kevin Pamphile
Will Lucas
Brandon Taylor
Gabe Holmes

20 players on their roster from Florida.

Illinois has 13 Florida players on their roster.

So I wrote Rittenberg. Let’s see how he responds to:

Adam,

I was reading your column, “Big Ten recruiting Q&A: Part I” with expert recruiting analyst, Craig Haubert, as your guest. In that article, Haubert lauds Ohio State for reaching down south into Florida where the players are. He indicates that Ohio State is “adjusting the best” to going where the talent is in Florida over the last two or three years. However a very cursory review of Big Ten rosters belies his statement. OSU has only 7 players hailing from Florida on their current roster and 3 2011 commitments doesn’t really skew things in their favor. Michigan has 9 on their current roster. Illinois has 13. Purdue has a jaw dropping 20. I’m left wondering why I should subscribe to his “insider” reports. Or are OSU fans more likely to open their wallet if they are pandered to then other fans?

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