Huffpost.com - Five Ohio State football players, including quarterback Terrelle Pryor, must sit out the first five games of the 2011 season for accepting improper benefits, the NCAA ruled Thursday. A sixth football player must sit out the first game in 2011 for receiving discounted services in violation of NCAA rules. Pryor is the team’s star, while Herron is the leading rusher and Posey is the second-leading receiver. Adams is a starter at left tackle and Thomas a top sub on the defensive line. Pryor must repay $2,500 for selling his 2008 Big Ten championship ring, a 2009 Fiesta Bowl sportsmanship award and his 2008 Gold Pants, a gift from the university for players on a team that beats arch-rival Michigan. Herron must repay $1,150 for selling his football jersey, pants and shoes for $1,000 and receiving discounted services worth $150. Posey must repay $1,250 for selling his 2008 Big Ten championship ring for $1,200 and receiving discounted services worth $50. Adams must repay $1,000 for selling his 2008 Big Ten championship ring. Thomas must repay $1,505 for selling his 2008 Big Ten championship ring for $1,000, his 2008 Gold Pants for $350 and receiving discounted services worth $155. The players are eligible for the bowl game because the NCAA determined they did not receive adequate rules education during the time period the violations occurred, Lennon said. The NCAA also said that Ohio State did not receive a competitive advantage in the incident.
Well, well, well look what we have here. Turns out Ohio State is a bunch of cheating asshole fuck bags. Imagine that. I seriously need a second while I catch my breath cause this shit is shocking. Never would've thunk it. I mean how could a university that pays its players, takes their tests for them, and lets them steal shit, let them get free tattoos after selling every NCAA keepsake they got as a student athlete?
All I know is that Tressel needs to get punished for this. The guy has run the dirtiest program in the country for years but nobody seems to give a shit because he is raking in money for the Big Ten and the BCS. Now that Tattoogate has come down and there are no more sweater vests to hide behind it's time to start treating him like he works at a university with standards and suspend them for a minimum of two bowl games. A lot of people will probably claim, like the NCAA did, that tattoos didn't give OSU a competitive advantage and therefor shouldn't be punished with bowl sanctions, but to those people I ask, did Chris Webber's free SUV give him a competitive advantage or did the house that USC bought Reggie Bush's parents give him a competitive advantage? Obviously the answer is no but the sanctions still came down and the records were erased. If we are gonna play in a world where rules are rules then it's time that all universities, regardless of academic or moral stature play by the same ones. Suspending Pyror and company for 5 games is bullshit when half of them will declare for the NFL draft in light of the news anyway.
Regardless, it's officially the best day in a long time for UofM fans. Pryor is out at OSU and Denard is now officially the most prolific QB in the Big Ten. I just hope that he hasn't been getting free cheesesteaks at Mr. Spots the past two years cause with the way that the NCAA gets a hard on for investigating Rich Rod the repercussions will probably mean demolishing the Big House and dig up Fielding Yost's grave.
PS - I want receipts for every dime that Pyror makes to pay back the $2,500. Dude better be running bake sales outside of The Shoe.
PSS - Straight bullshit these guys get to play in the bowl game. The NCAA is a bunch of hypocritical ass clowns.
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