Nobody gets thrown in jail for a year for speeding going a few miles over the limit even if they do it twice. The punishment is heavy handed for the amount involved and the fact that it did not provide Ohio State any undue advantage on the football field. Unless it can be shown that OSU got some sort of recruitment advatage...e.g. multiple boosters funnelling large amounts of cash to get recruits to come to OSU, it hurt nobody. If he was a medical student on a full ride, and someone gave him some extra cash, no one would give s#&t.He was getting paid for jobs he didn't even show up to. Regardless of the amount of money, that is going to be severly punished. I really don't understand the defense of this
I realize that anal among us won't get this at all...He broke a rule , he broke a rule! He broke a rule!.
The rule book has bloated beyond control and it's enforcement is heavy handed and selective.
The NCAA has built a super highway and posted a 25 MPH speed limit on it. The high way funnels hundreds of millions of dollars to evryone but the athlete. Worse, it has been lowering the speed limit making it more and more difficult for those on it to comply with....and the fines are going up and up and up.
Now before anyone accuses me of saying this only because it's Ohio State (a terrible argument), I am arguing this for anyone from from any school (including TSUN). I have felt this for years...the troubles at OSU simply provides the forum.