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CRCy17

CRCy17

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A new report is coming out that Tressel was aware as early as April about the players exchanging memorabilia for tattoos. Sounds like a rather obscure "concerned person" contacted Tressel. Who knows the true validity of the suspected source.

Tressel knew of gear scheme last April - College Football - Rivals.com

Here is what comes to mind for me and what I want to bring up for discussion: You are a head coach at a high profile major university. You receive information from hundreds of people a day about all kinds of things. You have a responsibility to keep your team in compliance and upholding all ncaa rules, but what extent do you have to investigate every little accusation, especially those from a rather obscure source?
 
The sweater vest is bulletproof. This will not be a problem for Tressel.
 
Yeah I've lost a lot of respect for college athletics in the past year. Whatever it takes to win and make money!
 
He could really be in trouble for this. I know it's easy to assume that this will just be another slap on the wrist, but the NCAA does not like to be lied to. USC's RB coach lying to the NCAA about knowing the agents who were providing Reggie Bush with improper benefits was a major part of the NCAA's case against USC. Dez Bryant missed most of his last season at OSU for lying about meeting Deion Sanders, and Bruce Pearl is in real danger of losing his job this offseason after lying to the NCAA.

If the NCAA finds that Tressel did know about this in April, he could be looking at some serious penalties.
 
PGreen ISU '92 said:
I'm disgusted by all of the cheating in college football and men's college basketball. It's really starting to make me sick.
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Me too. Over the last few years I've become convinced that high school athletics is the last (almost) pure sports there is. The kids play hard and at a high level. There's no better cheap and good entertainment on a winter night than a high school basketball game as far as I'm concerned.
 
ruxCYtable said:
Me too. Over the last few years I've become convinced that high school athletics is the last (almost) pure sports there is. The kids play hard and at a high level. There's no better cheap and good entertainment on a winter night than a high school basketball game as far as I'm concerned.
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Cheating has been gone on for a very long time in college sports. It's just more widely known now, with message boards and 24/7 coverage of recruiting. John Wooden's UCLA dynasties were made possible by Sam Gilbert paying a lot of his players.
 
San Francisco Cy said:
And this weekend, two of the all-time best cheaters will be glorified in documentaries. The Fab Five and Tark's UNLV teams. I've set my DVR already for both...
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When I think back to college basketball when I was a kid...those two groups jump out. They were fun to watch...I will definitely be watching the shows on them
 
CRCy17 said:
A new report is coming out that Tressel was aware as early as April about the players exchanging memorabilia for tattoos. Sounds like a rather obscure "concerned person" contacted Tressel. Who knows the true validity of the suspected source.

Tressel knew of gear scheme last April - College Football - Rivals.com

Here is what comes to mind for me and what I want to bring up for discussion: You are a head coach at a high profile major university. You receive information from hundreds of people a day about all kinds of things. You have a responsibility to keep your team in compliance and upholding all ncaa rules, but what extent do you have to investigate every little accusation, especially those from a rather obscure source?
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You tell your compliance office to investigate and keep you informed. That's kinda the whole point of having compliance officers. Most compliance offices (at least at BCS conference) have 2 or 3 employees. I wish, rather than the NCAA's completely self-reporting model, that each school was allowed to have a compliance officer at one other school of their choosing and all schools were required to allow other schools access to their entire compliance office and A/D offices. I think that would keep everyone far more honest. And, if schools in a conference started suspecting one of the schools was cheating, they'd send their traveling compliance officer to that school to keep an eye on them.
 
huntt26 said:
Yeah I've lost a lot of respect for college athletics in the past year. Whatever it takes to win and make money!
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Very true, sadly, this is not the case in just college athletics. Businesses, non profits organizations (yes them too), the governement, and individuals all operate under this mentality as this is what our economic system has created. This is the mentality that created the wonderful USA and the one that continues to advance, err hinder advancement, but that is a topic of dicussion for the cave.
 
synapticwave said:
You tell your compliance office to investigate and keep you informed. That's kinda the whole point of having compliance officers. Most compliance offices (at least at BCS conference) have 2 or 3 employees. I wish, rather than the NCAA's completely self-reporting model, that each school was allowed to have a compliance officer at one other school of their choosing and all schools were required to allow other schools access to their entire compliance office and A/D offices. I think that would keep everyone far more honest. And, if schools in a conference started suspecting one of the schools was cheating, they'd send their traveling compliance officer to that school to keep an eye on them.
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Yeah thats what surprises me about the whole situation. I would think if Tressel actually knew about this back in April, he whould have had compliance look into it and deal with the suspensions right away. I really question this "source" who apparently informed Tressel back then.
 
jsmith86 said:
The lesson to be learned is that its okay to cheat and really do whatever you want, as long as your team is good.


I agree, disgusting.
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You mean as long as they are a big ticket draw that could ruin the profitability/ratings of the Sugar bowl without it star players, right?
 
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