Ohio State self-imposes 5 scholarship reduction for Failure to Monitor

• chicago510

  

  Breaking now on dispatch.com
• chicago510

  

  rollerCD BREAKING: Ohio State faces "Failure to Monitor" charge from NCAA; will self-impose forfeit of five scholarships over next three seasons. 11/10/11 3:22 PM brdispatch The failure-to-monitor charge stems from DeGeronimo's giving money to #OhioState players at Cleveland charity event. 11/10/11 3:23 PM [/URL]

• chicago510

  

  brdispatch More Gene Smith: "On a personal note, I deeply regret that I did not ensure the degree of monitoring our institution deserves and demands." 11/10/11 3:28 PM I know this is nothing compared to what is going on to the east, but penalties have been highly anticipated around here for awhile

• FatHobbit

  

  chicago510;966911 wrote:

  rollerCD BREAKING: Ohio State faces "Failure to Monitor" charge from NCAA; will self-impose forfeit of five scholarships over next three seasons. 11/10/11 3:22 PM brdispatch The failure-to-monitor charge stems from DeGeronimo's giving money to #OhioState players at Cleveland charity event. 11/10/11 3:23 PM [/URL]

  Soooo, is that five per year, or five over three years? It sounds like five over three years, but I'm not positive.
• Writerbuckeye

  

  There were rumblings on one OSU board earlier today that the NCAA might be coming in with penalties soon, including a FTM addition. This pretty much confirms it.
  
  On another note, Smith's mea culpa should be the first of two statements -- the second one being his resignation as AD.
• Writerbuckeye

  

  FatHobbit;966923 wrote:Soooo, is that five per year, or five over three years? It sounds like five over three years, but I'm not positive.

  Five total, over three seasons.
• chicago510

  

  I agree Gene has to go. Failure to monitor is an indictment of your athletic director and football coach.
  
  One shoe has dropped and its time to toss the other.
• vball10set

  Writerbuckeye;966925 wrote: On another note, Smith's mea culpa should be the first of two statements -- the second one being his resignation as AD.

  spot on
• queencitybuckeye

  They need to stop confessing to more and more parts of the "crime".
• FatHobbit

  

  Writerbuckeye;966926 wrote:Five total, over three seasons.

  thanks!
• bigorangebuck22

  Didn't tress usually hold some back to give to walk-ons? If so... no great loss
• sleeper

  

  Wow, the never ending punishments continue. I guess the SEC was right, just lie and hamper any investigation as quickly as possible. Self reporting just gets you in more trouble.
• Writerbuckeye

  

  What sucks about this one (the jobs-pay thing with a booster) is that Tressel banned this guy from contact with the team, and the AD also told him to stay away.
  
  So he works another angle and gets some players to break the rules, even after they've been told not to, and OSU gets hit with failure to monitor, anyway.
  
  It's time to pass a law that says if someone gives illegal benefits to college athletes, they can face jail time. Perhaps that would help deter some of this crap. Otherwise, you better follow these guys 24-7, because someone is going to get to them.
  
  And yes, I blame the players for doing this even though they know better -- but they did get punished. The boosters never seem to pay any price.
• HitsRus

  

  Stop...Stop... Stop....Quit self flagellating. Smith should be fired for incompetence. All he is doing is just giving the NCAA more reasons to add penalties (see what happened to Devier Posey). Nobody else beats themselves up. He is not doing anybody at OSU any favors. I'm beginning to wonder whose side he is on?
• Writerbuckeye

  

  HitsRus;967017 wrote:Stop...Stop... Stop....Quit self flagellating. Smith should be fired for incompetence. All he is doing is just giving the NCAA more reasons to add penalties (see what happened to Devier Posey). Nobody else beats themselves up. He is not doing anybody at OSU any favors. I'm beginning to wonder whose side he is on?

  I used to think people like you were wrong and the NCAA was always right on this stuff.
  
  I've now reversed my view.
• Automatik

  

  So I'm guessing more to come?
  
  And yes...Gene Smith...GTFO!!!
• WebFire

  And who was it here that insisted OSU couldn't get failure to monitor because it wasn't in the original NCAA letter? :rolleyes:
• Zoltan

  Automatik;967029 wrote:So I'm guessing more to come?
  
  And yes...Gene Smith...GTFO!!!

  Possibly, but not likely. This was a joint investigation with NCAA and FTM charge was levied because the work hours thing happened after the discounted tats. We have been hearing for a while now that a FTM monitor charge could be coming when they pushed back the date on the final ruling. I think the prevailing logic from the "insiders" is that there will still be no bowl ban, no significant losses of scholies (although the NCAA could slightly add to this), and OSU will be on serious probation (whatver that means). OSU does not just make up self enforced penalties, they are usually informally agreed upon with the NCAA before being realeased.
  
  A couple of funny stories from the documents. Bobby D tried to hide in a locker in 2001 after Tressel had banned him from being around the players. Also, an audit of Pryor's bank account led to the overpaid for work investigation. They found a check from an excavating company for... get ready.... $200. SEC boosters are cackling and rolling a blunt right now to steal a phrase from Whitlock.
• Fab1b

  

  Double secret probation!
• mallymal614

  If the Bucks are going to be placed on probation and banned from a bowl, I would want it to be this year to get it out the way. Especially since we are out of the national championship picture.
• Speedofsand

  

  
• Writerbuckeye

  

  Speedofsand;967058 wrote:

  Shouldn't this include an SEC logo, someplace -- with a beside it?
• Writerbuckeye

  

  WebFire;967036 wrote:And who was it here that insisted OSU couldn't get failure to monitor because it wasn't in the original NCAA letter? :rolleyes:

  This is a separate investigation, altogether. Thus a separate letter.
• OhioStatePride2003

  mallymal614;967054 wrote:If the Bucks are going to be placed on probation and banned from a bowl, I would want it to be this year to get it out the way. Especially since we are out of the national championship picture.

  If they're going to place a bowl ban on Ohio State, I wish they would've come out and said so already. This team has been through hell this season. As terrible as this season has gone for the Bucks, they still find themselves in position to win a Big Ten Championship. To take that away from them, (probably) days before they're set to play in the game (should they get there), would just be wrong and heartbreaking. As much as I agree that I'd love to have it done and out of the way, these seniors have been through so much in their final year, if they can get there - they deserve to play for a championship.
• sleeper

  

  They aren't going to give Ohio State a bowl ban. I don't know why people keep bringing this up as even a remote possibility.