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Posted on 07/08/2011 11:20:55 AM PDT by combat_boots
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTVN) -- Ohio State will vacate their 12 win 2010 season along with a victory in the Sugar Bowl as part of self-imposed punishment for NCAA rules violations. The recommendations also include a two-year probation that would not cost the Buckeyes any scholarships or ban them from post-season play.
Ohio State is asking the NCAA to go easy on it because it says former-coach Jim Tressel was the only official that knew of infractions.
The university also announced it has reached an agreement with Tressel to change his resignation to a retirement. In a release Ohio State said the agreement was "reasonable" and in the parties' best interests.
“I take full responsibility for my mistakes that have led to the ongoing NCAA inquiry and to scrutiny and criticism of the football program," Tressel said in a release from the university. "I am grateful for this opportunity to retire from the university that I so deeply respect and that I will continue to support.”
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Gene and Gordon need to leave as well.
If they had integrity... they would send back the $16 million they got for showing up in New Orleans.
Hmmmm.................they give up the Sugar Bowl win but do they give up the Sugar Bowl cash?
No, they DO NOT.
Ohio state needs a 4 year DEATH PENALTY. The cheating was widespread, and EVERYONE knew something was up, even if they won’t admit it.
THE Ohio State University richly deserves the very same “death penalty” that SMU received from the NCAA. Otherwise, it appears that said regulatory body is a sham that has a very soft spot for the big universities...sort of a “too big to fail” philosophy.
Bunch of damn crooks.
I don’t know about cash received for the appearance. I was disgusted with the lot of them once I heard something was amiss.
And I now feel sorry for U Mich. They must be playing in hand-me-down jerseys.
Badgers STILL won!
GO HOGS!!!!
Vacating wins means NOTHING. Every school that does that is laughing the whole time. You can’t change history that way.
What you can do is cut scholarships severely, impose post season bans, give the death penalty, etc.
Don’t insult us with the “vacating” scam....
So, SMU directly paying 21 of its players $61,000 (in 1986 money) while they were on probation is akin to 5 players selling their own freebies they got from the university for about $7,500 (in 2010 dollars) while not on probation?
Yeah, I get that. </sarc>
Can’t wait til UK basketball has to vacate its 2000th victory.
Exactly. The game still happened and there is video to prove it. All this does is change *official* history, but since football is not a sport where people talk about stats or all time wins, it wont really mean much.
We all saw USC win a title, and just because the NCAA wont recognize it anymore, they were definitely the best team that year.
??? Which bunch?? There's cheaters in amateur sports. There's politicians in D.C. and our state houses that are spending and stealing us blind. There's union thugs rigging elections, There's drug cartels shooting up our border states. There's organized crime rings smuggling people and operating prostitution houses in ever major city. And, there's my ex-wife that cleaned me out.
Which bunch of crooks are you referring too??
FReepers are acting like liberals with this, i.e., trying to re-write history.
Good luck with that.
Of course I say this as I sip a Guinness from my OSU mug, while wearing my OSU hat, typing on an OSU keyboard (and using an OSU mouse), while sitting in my OSU chair.
No bias. :O)
Screw vacate...forfiet!
OSU can shove it. Michigan State got screwed over and should have been in the Rose Bowl. SO PISSED!!!
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