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bukket

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Keeping up with the OSU saga the past few weeks has been interesting. I've been reading a lot of different stuff...lots of different angles...and posting some items on HN and enjoying the different points of view.

One article this week mentioned a possibility that has me thinking: banning OSU football from appearing on televion. After sleeping on it for a day or two I think this could be a major, major talking point for the Big 10.

Think about the conference's revenue sharing model, the BTN payment model, and the upcoming contract negotiations for the conferences television rights.

- OSU's "annual" BCS appearance and the money generated will cost conference schools
- BTN would lose 1/6th of its possible lineup on a weekly basis, and cost a conference school the chance to be on TV when they play OSU
- Delaney has lost a little leverage in his negotiating arsenal with ESPN/ABC for a new B1G contract if OSU isn't in the equation for a few seasons

Every B1G team that has been feeding at the table in the revenue sharing model is now facing a smaller portion.

What are the repurcussions from the conference for a school that does this? What should they be?

Thoughts?
 
I think you make some good points. From a conference perspective, one would want every team (especially a cash cow like O$U) to be as strong and viable as possible. This isn't good for the conference, in my opinion.

From a revenue sharing standpoint with regard to TV contract, bowls, etc. I would think that all of us (from Indiana right up to Nebby and osu) would want the big ten to be as strong as possible.
 
I know it will never happen this way, but I think OSU should remain on TV.

OSU fans did not do this. Don't punish them, and don't punish the fans of the team OSU is playing that week by not putting the game on television.

I would go the other way...... leave them on TV so everyone can see how bad they have gotten....so that the commentators can refer to OSU's problems with the NCAA each week and so that they can keep being admonished each week for the next couple seasons.

Give OSU the TV coverage, but take away the revenue. Divide it up between the other Big Ten schools and let them have an advantage for a while. Money talks. Hit them in the pocketbook. That's what professional sports do to their athletes when they cross the line. Well, the NCAA doesn't pay it's players, so hit the institutions in the pocketbook instead. In regards to OSU, they need to hit them really hard!
 
MultipleDundieAwardWinner said:
Wouldn't banning OSU from TV punish the fans of the other 8 Big 10 teams that OSU plays that year? That seems like a ton of collateral damage to make a stupid point.
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It would. But this is an option the NCAA has exercised in the past. According to what I've read the Maine hockey program was banned from TV several years back. Given the importance of TV to NCAA football I'd argue that a TV ban might hurt worse than scholarship reductions. It could also force "peer pressure" from other conference institutions to vet questionable behavior moving forward.
 
USC came extremely close to getting a TV ban with their recent brush with the NCAA. I think OSU gets hit worse, so I would not be suprised to see a TV ban. I think it's necessary, players, coaches, administrators, boosters and fans all need to realize that this crap is unacceptable.
 
TV bans do not happen anymore. For the simple reason is you are hurting the teams they are playing. TV bans hurt the schools they are playing when they did nothing wrong. OSU will not get a TV ban.
 
They could do what European soccer leagues do sometimes, make them play a game with no fans in the stadium.
 
I would be ****** as an Iowa fan if I couldn't watch a road game because of this. can't imagine this would ever happen.
 
The NCAA could hand down a tv ban and then it doesn't matter. That would certainly punish the fans of the other schools. Not sure if the NCAA does tv bans any longer however.
 
Force OSU to play the entire season on the road! No gate revenue.
No home games for Buckeye fans would cure their problem in a heart beat.
They would take an active role in policing themselves, if that were handed down.
Can you imagine what might happen to the next Dennis Talbott, if OSU fans didnt get to go to a game for an entire year?
The next shady character that was observed messing around with the players, might end up at the bottom of Lake Erie.
 
JonDMiller said:
The NCAA could hand down a tv ban and then it doesn't matter. That would certainly punish the fans of the other schools. Not sure if the NCAA does tv bans any longer however.
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One way to minimize the loss of revenue to the rest of the conference is to deny OSU their share of conference TV revenue from games played by conference schools and distribute that amount in equal shares to the other Big Ten schools for as long as OSU is banned from Television.

Another way is for OSU to continue appearing on TV but deny them the revenue and award that amount to the rest of the conference schools in equal shares. This would also act as compensation for not playing by the rules and gaining an unfair advantage.
 
In order to make sanctions hurt a school serious sanctions have to be enforced against a school. Slapping a school like osu with the same "penalities" that usc got does nothing to schools like osu and usc. They play out their sanctions for a couple of year and then return right to the top like before.

The problem with cheating for some schools today is that the cheating is WORTH the risk of getting caught financially and for exposure. These schools know that a couple of years of "penalities" will do little if anything to them besides slow the school down for a couple of years. All the cheating skyrocketed them into a tremendous force in college football; much more than had they NOT cheated.

America's sportswriters, fans, and the best high school players don't care if osu/usc cheated and got caught. All THE players know is that if they play for either of these two schools, chances are great that they will be playing in a national championship game. The cheating PAID off for both of these schools.

The ONLY way to stop the cheating is to really, really hammer these schools and knock them down about 10 notches making it very difficult to regain their previous status.

This type of cheating has paid off greatly for Miami, Alabama, Texas, Auburn, osu, and USC and especially UConn in bb. IF the NCAA does not hammer them, these schools will just laugh at the penalities, and then see if the getting caught to getting penalites is worth cheating AGAIN and AGAIN.

As long as the cheating pays off for teams, a few NCAA "penalties" does nothing to stop these schools from cheating again...it is a simple as that.

A television ban and about 15 lost scholarships per year for as many as 5 years (a total of 50 to 60 lost scholarships) would hurt these schools and the ENTIRE coaching staff is fired, with agreements from other college schools and the NFL that these coaches would NOT be hired. Even if the 5 and 4 star kids decided to go to osu, for example, there wouldn't be enough of a supporting cast to make these players great and ready for the NFL. THEN maybe these kids would begin looking at other schools, which would hurt the osu's, usc's tremendously.

With penalties like that do you think a college coach would risk his entire career to cheat? Do you think other schools might think twice before cheating if they were to get hammered like that? Think they would risk cheating if they knew the school was going to be on probation for 5 years?

Some might say that these sanctions would be like a death penalty...they HAVE to be to be effective against schools like osu/usc/Alabama, and so on.
 
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