http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7966726/ohio-state-buckeyes-say-pending-ncaa-violations-secondary

In an interview Wednesday with campus newspaper The Lantern, Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said the athletic department has 12 pending NCAA violations in addition to the 46 self-reported secondary violations since May 31, 2011. The 46 secondary violations were released last week.

Once again, we hear about Ohio State violations that we never hear from other schools. $10 says ESPN won't live this down until Ohio State cannot play any sports any longer.

It's a joke.

Football – The compliance office approved the use of mini basketballs during a football winter conditioning workout.Men’s Gymnastics – The practice activities of a gymnastics alum were publicized.
Institutional – Two baseball prospective student-athletes arrived on campus for official visits before being placed on the request list.
Institutional – Athletics financial aid agreements were issued to three prospective student-athletes without being signed by the financial aid director.
Football – A former assistant football coach had an inadvertent contact or “bump” with a prospective student-athlete.
Field Hockey – A former assistant coach sent an email to a prospective student-athlete believing that she was a 2013 high school graduate.
Men’s Tennis – A high school football coach and friend of the tennis program’s head coach stopped by the tennis training facility unannounced with an assistant coach and four prospective student-athletes during a dead period.
Baseball – A prospective student-athlete in grade 12 registered and showed up for an Ohio State camp for participants in grades 9-11 even though he was told he was not eligible to compete at the camp. A t-shirt was given to the individual to defuse the situation when he got upset that he couldn’t compete.
Baseball – A prospective student-athlete received a complimentary admission to a home baseball game during a dead period.
Women’s Hockey – A former assistant coach inadvertently sent an email to a 2014 prospective student-athlete when the prospect was mistakenly entered into the recruiting data base by the previous coaching staff as a 2013 graduate.
Football – The program understood the aunt of a prospective student-athlete was his legal guardian and provided food and lodging expenses to her for the official visit.
Football – An assistant coach inadvertently posted on the Facebook wall of a 2013 prospective student-athlete, believing at the time he was using the email inbox function of Facebook.

Also, how the hell does Gene Smith still have a job?

sleeper;1180983 wrote:Also, how the hell does Gene Smith still have a job?

The million dollar question.

F*ck that guy.

sleeper;1180983 wrote:Also, how the hell does Gene Smith still have a job?

Automatik;1180990 wrote:The million dollar question.

F*ck that guy.

this +1000

vball10set;1181040 wrote:this +1000

+1000 or *1000?

It enrages me that I continue to see him nonchalantly make statements regarding violations.

Why don't they show him the door? I don't get it.

Automatik;1181113 wrote:It enrages me that I continue to see him nonchalantly make statements regarding violations.

Why don't they show him the door? I don't get it.

All part of the plan? Ohio State now has more compliance officers than any school in the country. They will dig deeper, search with a fine toothed, uncover and self-report thousands of silly, ridiculous, innocuous Secondary Violations never before found by any other university and overload and short circuit the NCAA causing an implosion.

A few things . . .

1. Ohio State self-reports more violations annually than any other school. That doesn't mean they commit more violations that everyone else, just that they report more because they now have the biggest compliance department in the country and therefore self-monitor better than anyone else now.

2. Ohio State has the largest athletic department in the country, so they should have more violations because they have more sports, coaches, and athletes than anyone else.

3. Most of these violations are secondary and inadvertent. Most are simply people not knowing some obscure rule or a clerical error. This sort of thing happens everywhere.

4. This only gets reported by the national media because Ohio State has committed major violations recently. My guess is they every school has to release a list of violations like this annual, but we're the only program being reported on nationally because of what happened recently.

5. OSU has the biggest alumni base in the country and they probably more the needle as much if not more than any other college program, which is why little stuff like this gets so much national attention. ESPN covers OSU more than any other college, so they don't want to see us lose all our sports. They make more money off of OSU than any other school. News about OSU obviously draws viewers/readers, so they'll cover crap like this because it makes them money.

krambman;1182965 wrote:A few things . . .

1. Ohio State self-reports more violations annually than any other school. That doesn't mean they commit more violations that everyone else, just that they report more because they now have the biggest compliance department in the country and therefore self-monitor better than anyone else now.

2. Ohio State has the largest athletic department in the country, so they should have more violations because they have more sports, coaches, and athletes than anyone else.

3. Most of these violations are secondary and inadvertent. Most are simply people not knowing some obscure rule or a clerical error. This sort of thing happens everywhere.

4. This only gets reported by the national media because Ohio State has committed major violations recently. My guess is they every school has to release a list of violations like this annual, but we're the only program being reported on nationally because of what happened recently.

5. OSU has the biggest alumni base in the country and they probably more the needle as much if not more than any other college program, which is why little stuff like this gets so much national attention. ESPN covers OSU more than any other college, so they don't want to see us lose all our sports. They make more money off of OSU than any other school. News about OSU obviously draws viewers/readers, so they'll cover crap like this because it makes them money.

All of these are true, but let's not act like the basketball/football programs aren't dirty as hell too. The petty shit, free sneakers and such, happens to this day.

sjmvsfscs08;1183069 wrote:All of these are true, but let's not act like the basketball/football programs aren't dirty as hell too. The petty ****, free sneakers and such, happens to this day.

hahaha-why all the anger, Toby? :rolleyes:

http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/50699/some-context-on-b1g-secondary-violations

sleeper;1180921 wrote:http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/_/id/7966726/ohio-state-buckeyes-say-pending-ncaa-violations-secondary



Once again, we hear about Ohio State violations that we never hear from other schools. $10 says ESPN won't live this down until Ohio State cannot play any sports any longer.

It's a joke.

Big bet! Might have to empty your paypal account for that one...

Complete non-story, other than the absud notion that these are "violations".

A reasonably competent person could write the entire rulebook in about two pages. A committee turns it into this abortion.