[Husker] Ohio State on Probationu

[Nick Chevance]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Mike Nolan <nolan at tssi.com> wrote:
>> Ohio State University announced today it is vacating all 10 of its victories from the 2010 football season and placing itself on two years' probation in the wake of a scandal that cost coach Jim Tressel his job.
>
> As Al Jolson said, "Wait a minute, wait a minute, you ain't heard nothin' yet!"
> --
> Mike Nolan

Well, clearly THE Ohio State University thinks the NCAA is considering
the University's actions to be a very serious matter.  They're trying
to get out in front of the likely sanctions to come down from the NCAA
when they finish their investigations, hoping that the NCAA says "OSU,
you've done enough to punish yourself."  Nope, don't buy it.  Vacating
their regular season's victories is fine (and actually they are
vacating all 12 victories including the Sugar Bowl win in January
2011), but how does one put oneself on probation?  What does that
mean?

I think they get hit with the "lack of institutional control" charge
and they'll likely lose more than a bunch of scholarships.  I suspect
the NCAA probation will hurt more than the one they just put on
themselves.  And I suspect the AD is in deep doo-doo, too.

Nick

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