Category: NCAA
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Could Bauserman make Buckeye fans forget Pryor?
2011 Buckeye season. Game 1 – Akron People were ready to hand the reigns over to Braxton Miller. “Bauserman is terrible,” some argued, “Let’s get this new star quarterback under center.” In Bauserman’s first start as quarterback since he was a high school student in 2003, the former minor league baseball player looked solid in…
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Hurricane Nevin, Scandal and Ponzi Schemes
Money, yacht parties, VIP rooms, prostitutes. I first thought that the reporters had gotten a copy of Charlie Sheen’s bank statement, but these are allegations of benefits received by football players in the University of Miami football program from 2002 until 2010.
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Stop making excuses for Tressel
The NCAA was aware of the rules violations of five Ohio State football players and affirmed five game suspensions for them earlier this year. Then things got much worse. It came to light Tressel knew about the violations and lied, and now there are reports that even more players had done the same thing. Pryor…
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Reaction to resignation of Tressel
For Ohio State football fans, this morning’s news that Jim Tressel has resigned as football coach is the Buckeye Nation’s, “You remember where you were when you found out…” moment. While I was surprised to find out this morning of his resignation, ultimately this is someting which I believe was inevitable. And while I said…
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OSU football scandal deepens
No one likes a snitch. At the very least, this is what the movie Goodfellas taught us. Last night, it was reported in the Ohio State University newspaper that former Buckeye wide receiver Roy Small admitted to selling personal effects including as Big Ten Championship rings while he was a student at Ohio State, which…
Josh Benner 