OSU ruling comes out this afternoon

[mellojello]

Originally Posted by keylime_5

Meyer is gonna win and win big here, we were very lucky to be able to follow up Tressel with someone like that.

I just like watching good football and I loved those Meyer-led Florida teams. Watching Meyer basically convert Percy to a RB, I always thought to myself, why the f**k didn't Jeff Tedford convert Desean Jackson to a hybrid role like that? Those sort of talents don't grow on trees, but Meyer seems to extract so much more from his playmakers. Those were crazy talented teams in Florida, but Meyer had a part in Florida's success.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm actually looking forward to watching Ohio St. football.

[Sloopy]

Originally Posted by mellojello

Most people are probably comparing the crimes committed by both football programs, which is where some of the confusion stems. Besides the actual violations surrounding Bush and Mayo, one of the biggest problems that the NCAA had issue with was that SC effectively had no compliance department to point to when the allegations took place. SC's compliance department supposedly consisted of one person. Does anyone know how many employees most major sports universities dedicate to athetic department compliance?

I could be completely off base but I think I remember reading something about 10 being the minimum... take it for what its worth :P

[Shane P. Hallam]

Talked to some people from Ohio State, so take this from a grain of salt, but some buzz about a conspiracy theory as to why Gene Smith didn't do a self imposed bowl ban is that he gets approx. 1 million dollar bonus for the football team playing in a bowl game. Due to some other incidents in non-revenue sports, he was almost fired before this whole fiasco with Tressel, but stayed on. He is figuring he will be fired after this season anyway, so he didn't self-impose a bowl ban to get his bonus and let the next guy miss the bonus.

[DeepThreat]

Originally Posted by Shane P. Hallam

Talked to some people from Ohio State, so take this from a grain of salt, but some buzz about a conspiracy theory as to why Gene Smith didn't do a self imposed bowl ban is that he gets approx. 1 million dollar bonus for the football team playing in a bowl game. Due to some other incidents in non-revenue sports, he was almost fired before this whole fiasco with Tressel, but stayed on. He is figuring he will be fired after this season anyway, so he didn't self-impose a bowl ban to get his bonus and let the next guy miss the bonus.

I wish I could say I would be surprised by that. But honestly, it makes complete sense.

[Sloopy]

Originally Posted by Shane P. Hallam

Talked to some people from Ohio State, so take this from a grain of salt, but some buzz about a conspiracy theory as to why Gene Smith didn't do a self imposed bowl ban is that he gets approx. 1 million dollar bonus for the football team playing in a bowl game. Due to some other incidents in non-revenue sports, he was almost fired before this whole fiasco with Tressel, but stayed on. He is figuring he will be fired after this season anyway, so he didn't self-impose a bowl ban to get his bonus and let the next guy miss the bonus.

At least this would be a logical explanation for it. Not that I'm happy about... the bastard

[mellojello]

Originally Posted by sweater-vest_mafia

I could be completely off base but I think I remember reading something about 10 being the minimum... take it for what its worth :P

If I were an Ohio St. fan, I would point to the compliance dept. of Ohio St. vs. SC, which on an institutional level, Ohio St. probably did. That is probably why Ohio St. was able to isolate the violation to one coach. SC could not argue that there was no evidence of LOIC if it's true that they only had 1 employee dedicated to compliance. This isn't a small issue that should be lost in discussions by talking heads.