deduke1907
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OHIO STATE JUST LOST THEIR QUARTER BACK
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Who cares? He is a disgrace. Three years of college and I doubt if he can read or write. Major college sports are a mess.
HAWKEYE10
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The Tn. Vols are in a big mess too. It seems a lot of people just don't want to do the right thing. Don
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Maybe a good thing. NCAA would have found major violations in his history. By quitting he does not have to talk to them. My guess is that the NCAA already has enough on him to suspend him the year anyway.
The big joke is that he thinks he is going to be an NFL QB. No way, best he could possibly do is a running back or wide out. Maybe tight end if they put 40 pounds on him.
The big joke is that he thinks he is going to be an NFL QB. No way, best he could possibly do is a running back or wide out. Maybe tight end if they put 40 pounds on him.
AZretired
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Good! Go BLUE!!
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Who cares? It's just a game...
JamesArthur60
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Good luck trying to make it in the NFL you lying thief. Maybe all colleges should consider character and morals of student athletes before football skills. Bye-bye trouble maker. I feel bad for all the well educated, honest players on the team.
35Rem
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This is the general attitude that bothers me about this and the Reggie Bush deal. It's not a fair game if someone is cheating. Are we teaching people it's OK to cheat? Just don't get caught?
The NCAA needs to nail the school to the wall as an example of what not to do. The NCAA needs to get a grip on this stuff.
I care. It IS a game. Not playing fair is wrong.
dacoontz
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They can't, his "mommy" bought it for him. Not sure where she got the funds?
They need to just start paying these guys to play instead of wasting scholarships on them. Leave the scholarships for the guys that actually appreciate the free education. I love college football but hate seeing guys destroying their bodies while the "schools" (aka businesses) get rich and simultaneously raising tuition fees for everyone else. It doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
It was the NCAA that wouldn't let OSU suspend the players for the Sugar Bowl citing "The integrity of the bowl tradition". I kid you not.
The NCAA is the problem and scarfing the money from the same pig trough as the Div One Schools..
I think I've had my fill of major college sports.
But I have to tell you watching the Liberal Arts majors of Otterbein College go up against the future lawyers of Capital University is a lot of fun and one heck of a long-standing rivalry.
35Rem
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Nope. tOSU lobbied for them to remain eligible for the game.
OSU football: Players sorry; Sugar Bowl isn't | BuckeyeXtra
tOSU knew what was going on and still duped the NCAA into letting them play and the Coach, coach. They all should have been sat immediately.
OSU football: Players sorry; Sugar Bowl isn't | BuckeyeXtra
tOSU knew what was going on and still duped the NCAA into letting them play and the Coach, coach. They all should have been sat immediately.
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rburg
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You make your post as if the NFL is some kind of tower of ethics and honesty, and its players aren't all criminals already. OK, there probably are a few who aren't felons. Who really cares?
The guy was a talented college player. He's got as good a chance of making it in the NFL as any other college quarterback (except the Heisman winner). Had he not gotten caught, he might have that trophy himself this upcoming season.
I'm going to guess the players from Ohio State aren't any better or worse in the morals department than any other big, winning team. They just attracted more scrutiny than the others because they're better and win more consistently.
OP
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You can guess about my alma mater and my college football loyalties by my username. Class of 1999, BS in mechanical engineering.
I'm a Buckeye football nut. The last home I missed was against Penn State 1996. I can't remember the last game I missed before that, going back to my freshman year in 1989. I don't know how many home games I've missed since autumn 1989, but it's probably fewer than five and certainly not more than 10. I live in a tiny house; I drive old used cars that I fix myself; I'm not into gadgets or DVDs or even lots of guns. My vice is Ohio State football. I've been to over 150 home games, at least 20 road games, and five bowl games, including the 2011 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans.
Coach Tressel had to go. This reality makes me very sad, because I liked the on-field product and I liked his message. I can't pass judgement on his character because I don't know him personally, but he *seemed* like a stand-up guy. And the record... oh my, the record. 82.8% winning percentage. One national championship and two other losses in the biggest game. BCS bowl after BCS bowl.
And 9-1 against scUM. After 2-10-1 in the John Cooper era, it's been so good that I've had to pinch myself.
But, his explanation that he wanted to protect his players and that he didn't know who to contact is, in a word, unbelievable. As in, "I don't believe you." He's been a head coach since 1986. There is *no way* he didn't know what to do, or to whom to relay the information. And then he filed the periodic compliance forms stating that there were no infractions of which he knew. Did he lie? Yes. Was there a conspiracy to deceive? Unquestionably! Does this warrant his dismissal? Positively. And so Coach Tressel, the man who taught Buckeye Nation that the punt is the most important play in football, has to move into the annals of Ohio State football history instead of continuing to write a story that would have placed as second greatest of all time in that storied program.
After all this, are we really surprised that Terrelle Pryor is gone? If you are, you ain't real bright. Pryor was as crooked as three dollar bill. However, I take no joy in his departure, just as I take no joy in Coach Tressel's departure. It must happen, but it is decidedly unpleasant and I wish it were only a bad dream.
The guy for whom I feel bad is interim head coach Luke Fickell. He started a record 50 games for the Buckeyes in the mid-90's, including playing an entire Rose Bowl with a torn pectoralis muscle. He's a tough S.O.B. that bleeds scarlet and gray, but now he's got to lead this listing ship at the tender age of 37. NOW he has to do it without the best player on the team. Pryor is one of the most electric athletes I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them because I've been to so many games at Ohio State, a premier football school. Television never did him justice. He was so big, so fast, and could accelerate like a modded Corvette. Simply incredible.
Still, the show will go on. Ohio State will eventually clean itself up. And I'll be in my seat for the first game against the Sisters of the Poor in September, yelling as much as I always do.
Go Bucks. Beat Michigan.
I'm a Buckeye football nut. The last home I missed was against Penn State 1996. I can't remember the last game I missed before that, going back to my freshman year in 1989. I don't know how many home games I've missed since autumn 1989, but it's probably fewer than five and certainly not more than 10. I live in a tiny house; I drive old used cars that I fix myself; I'm not into gadgets or DVDs or even lots of guns. My vice is Ohio State football. I've been to over 150 home games, at least 20 road games, and five bowl games, including the 2011 Sugar Bowl in New Orleans.
Coach Tressel had to go. This reality makes me very sad, because I liked the on-field product and I liked his message. I can't pass judgement on his character because I don't know him personally, but he *seemed* like a stand-up guy. And the record... oh my, the record. 82.8% winning percentage. One national championship and two other losses in the biggest game. BCS bowl after BCS bowl.
And 9-1 against scUM. After 2-10-1 in the John Cooper era, it's been so good that I've had to pinch myself.
But, his explanation that he wanted to protect his players and that he didn't know who to contact is, in a word, unbelievable. As in, "I don't believe you." He's been a head coach since 1986. There is *no way* he didn't know what to do, or to whom to relay the information. And then he filed the periodic compliance forms stating that there were no infractions of which he knew. Did he lie? Yes. Was there a conspiracy to deceive? Unquestionably! Does this warrant his dismissal? Positively. And so Coach Tressel, the man who taught Buckeye Nation that the punt is the most important play in football, has to move into the annals of Ohio State football history instead of continuing to write a story that would have placed as second greatest of all time in that storied program.
After all this, are we really surprised that Terrelle Pryor is gone? If you are, you ain't real bright. Pryor was as crooked as three dollar bill. However, I take no joy in his departure, just as I take no joy in Coach Tressel's departure. It must happen, but it is decidedly unpleasant and I wish it were only a bad dream.
The guy for whom I feel bad is interim head coach Luke Fickell. He started a record 50 games for the Buckeyes in the mid-90's, including playing an entire Rose Bowl with a torn pectoralis muscle. He's a tough S.O.B. that bleeds scarlet and gray, but now he's got to lead this listing ship at the tender age of 37. NOW he has to do it without the best player on the team. Pryor is one of the most electric athletes I've ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them because I've been to so many games at Ohio State, a premier football school. Television never did him justice. He was so big, so fast, and could accelerate like a modded Corvette. Simply incredible.
Still, the show will go on. Ohio State will eventually clean itself up. And I'll be in my seat for the first game against the Sisters of the Poor in September, yelling as much as I always do.
Go Bucks. Beat Michigan.
ohiobuckeye
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Might work for colleges but definitely could not do that in the NFL....The Bengals would have nothing left but a couple of second stringers and the water boy.
rburg
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Actually, that's all they've been playing for most of the last 20 or so years.
JamesArthur60
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I'm very close to Otterbein, but have never been to a football game. Maybe it's time to start.
I've noticed most of the comments relating to OSU football problems have been better addressed by those members from the Columbus area or within the state of Ohio. We get the top scoop on events from the local media who have been blunt and I believe truthful; compared to the anti-OSU commentators on ESPN. I think most agree, Tressel had to go. He's too intelligent and experienced to play the dumb, I didn't know card. But, I (and others) believe this mess starts at the top with Smith and Gee being in on the cover up. The football monster at Ohio State has been fed for decades, and now it's turning on the hand who fed it. The fans will suffer through next season and possibly a few more. In time it will pass. However, I fear the football monster at other major universities will attack them, and they will be in the limelight. It just happens to be our turn now.
35Rem
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"Enjoy" it. As an Auburn fan, and Alum, we sure had our share this year! (Understatement!!)
I'm glad nothing could stick, but it sure left a bad taste in my mouth for the media, especially ESPN. They will run with half truths and flat out lies. I look at "reports" a little differently now, but it seems OSU has stepped in it big time.
