Wetzel savages Ohio State, NCAA, BCS, Pryor

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olivecourt

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Everyone should read this:

Pryor’s acts expose charade of college athletics - College Football - Rivals.com

Why does none of this ever stick to Tressel? To people who were hyperventilating about Kirk Ferentz losing control over the football program: the violations mentioned in this article are much, much worse (from the NCAA's perspective) than drug use. But if Prior goes pro, he will have never been suspended for any of it, and Jim Tressel will just play the same head-in-the-sand routine he played with Clarett.

The last time Wetzel went this hard after a program, USC got slapped with some pretty huge penalties. I don't think this story is even close to being over.
 




The whole thing called the NCAA is a farce.
They follow the golden rule...whoever has the gold, rules.
 


bahhh....Wetzel is simply playing checkers. OSU, Tress, and the rest of the bunch are light years ahead of this simpleton. Chess is their game.
 


SDK46 said:
The whole thing called the NCAA is a farce.
They follow the golden rule...whoever has the gold, rules.
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Actually, when it comes to college football, the NCAA doesn't get squat. It's college basketball where the NCAA gets their coin from since they own the NCAA tournament. That's why you can get huge penalties against big college football programs (USC, Alabama, Auburn, etc), but you rarely see them against big college basketball programs.

I think this is more a case of Delaney, Gee, and the bowls essentially running a power play against the NCAA.
 




Looks to me like Pryor/Ohio State is using the bend but dont break strategy when it comes the the rules.

Just as things were quieting down, the Dispatch reported on Jan. 2 that Pryor had been pulled over by police three times in the last three years driving “loaner” cars from a local used car dealer, Auto Direct. Pryor told the paper he only borrowed the cars when his own car (currently a Dodge Charger) was in the shop with repairs.
Ohio State said it was aware of two of the incidents and would look into the third. If we’re led to believe the borrowing of cars were again isolated incidents, then Pryor has some bad luck with local cops. He seemingly gets pulled over every time he receives a nice loaner. Either that or he drives them all the time, of course.
The car dealer did tell the newspaper that he also allowed Pryor, in 2008, to drive a Dodge SUV back to Pryor’s home in Pennsylvania. “I wanted advice from some of my family and friends I trusted to see if it would be a good vehicle for me to maybe buy,” Pryor said.
Unsupervised, out-of-state test drivers of used cars are common practice, correct?
Oops.
 




They need to wise up and use the Auburn strategy. Make a large lump sum payment to the old man early on; then you don't have to worry about a whole slew of nickel, dime stuff in the days after he arrives on campus.
 


Wetzel wants to turn college football into the NFL-lite. He is a part-time college football fan,who is out to make a buck pushing this position with his book....talk about hypocrite.
 


JHHawk said:
Wetzel wants to turn college football into the NFL-lite. He is a part-time college football fan,who is out to make a buck pushing this position with his book....talk about hypocrite.
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What is hypocritical about having an opinion and arguing for it?

I don't agree with all of the ways that he wants to change college football. But everything he writes in this story is public record and findable by anyone who knows how to use Google. He just appears to be one of the few writers who cares that the CEO of the Sugar Bowl has more power over player eligibility than the president of the NCAA.

Seriously, give me one logical reason while Pryor, Herron, etc. are suspended for five games but that the suspension doesn't start until after the Sugar Bowl-- at which point some of them might already be drafted by the NFL?
 


Ohio State is not dirty. They have a huge problem with hangers on & want to bees. It really is at epidemic proportions. There are 1.4 million people in the Columbus metropolitan area and like any major metropolitan area; there is a lot of scum.

No poster in their right mind would buy a car from the dealer involved with Pryor. It is far from being a reputable dealer in Columbus.

Ohio State is unlike any other Big Ten school. It is the only inner-city school in a rough neighborhood in a major metropolitan area. Northwestern may be in a major metropolitan area but it is not an inner-city school nor in a rough neighborhood.

Look at DJK's roommate. He also lived with Clayborn. Now multiple problems like that by twenty. There are just so many people in the area that could care less about OSU sports, but want to ingratiate themselves with the athletes to make a buck.

Also, do not blame OSU & Tressel for the Sugar Bowl. That is all on Jim Delaney & the Sugar Bowl. The five players would have been suspended for the Sugar Bowl if they had not pledged to come back next year. Jim Tressel felt that the players should not go unpunished. Of course, they can back out of their commitment. However, would you lie to Ferentz's face?

Remember that Chris Carter is still persona non grata in Columbus over the Walters-Bloom incident.
 




ColumbusHawk said:
Ohio State is not dirty. They have a huge problem with hangers on & want to bees. It really is at epidemic proportions. There are 1.4 million people in the Columbus metropolitan area and like any major metropolitan area; there is a lot of scum.

No poster in their right mind would buy a car from the dealer involved with Pryor. It is far from being a reputable dealer in Columbus.

Ohio State is unlike any other Big Ten school. It is the only inner-city school in a rough neighborhood in a major metropolitan area. Northwestern may be in a major metropolitan area but it is not an inner-city school nor in a rough neighborhood.

Look at DJK's roommate. He also lived with Clayborn. Now multiple problems like that by twenty. There are just so many people in the area that could care less about OSU sports, but want to ingratiate themselves with the athletes to make a buck.

Also, do not blame OSU & Tressel for the Sugar Bowl. That is all on Jim Delaney & the Sugar Bowl. The five players would have been suspended for the Sugar Bowl if they had not pledged to come back next year. Jim Tressel felt that the players should not go unpunished. Of course, they can back out of their commitment. However, would you lie to Ferentz's face?

Remember that Chris Carter is still persona non grata in Columbus over the Walters-Bloom incident.
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Minnesota is in exactly the same type of geographic location.

Regardless, I don't have an issue with the fact that guys get into trouble. I have an issue when coaches willfully turn a blind eye to it, and that seems to be the case with Terrell Pryor. He's been pulled over three times in cars that weren't his-- which you'd think would be a big deal considering the Maurice Clarett fiasco. And don't tell me that Jim Tressel isn't responsible for letting those guys play in the Sugar Bowl. The buck stops with the head coach-- period. He wants his best players to play so they can win the game; I'm sure most coaches would feel the same way, but don't pretend he doesn't have authority over the situation.
 


olivecourt said:
Minnesota is in exactly the same type of geographic location.

Regardless, I don't have an issue with the fact that guys get into trouble. I have an issue when coaches willfully turn a blind eye to it, and that seems to be the case with Terrell Pryor. He's been pulled over three times in cars that weren't his-- which you'd think would be a big deal considering the Maurice Clarett fiasco. And don't tell me that Jim Tressel isn't responsible for letting those guys play in the Sugar Bowl. The buck stops with the head coach-- period. He wants his best players to play so they can win the game; I'm sure most coaches would feel the same way, but don't pretend he doesn't have authority over the situation.
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Agreed. ARob was eligable to play in the bowl game this year but didn't. Just because you can do a thing doesn't necessarily mean that you should do a thing.
 


You can't even compare Minnesota's campus with Ohio State's. Minnesota's campus isn't even close to being an inner-city school. OSU is closer to the University of Chicago than it is to any school in the Big Ten.
 


Write a story bashing Ohio St & basically the B10.
All the while, its perfectly OK to be paid six figures in the SEC and that's not worthy of an article.
Who would have guessed.

I'm not naive enough to believe the B10 programs are all 100% compliant but what I do know is that the level of non-compliance in the SEC is unlike anything we've seen in the B10.

Average # of recruits signed per school since 2007...
SEC 103
B10 86

I'd say that's a significant competitive advantage based on a practice that is unethical at best.

But no one in the media is gonna write a story on that.
 


ColumbusHawk said:
You can't even compare Minnesota's campus with Ohio State's. Minnesota's campus isn't even close to being an inner-city school. OSU is closer to the University of Chicago than it is to any school in the Big Ten.
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based on the news clippings from the last year, give Iowa City a few years and it'll be close! ;)
 


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