Ohio State slammed with NCAA Penalties

[tornado]

Not really very severe.
3 yrs probation and wipe some wins off the record.

http://msn.foxsports.com/cbk/story/5398780

If you read the story, Wright State actually gets hit harder than OSU!

[BU fan]

Amazing how easy they get off. This was one of the most corrupt coaching staffs in recent NCAA history, including a lot of cash, gifts and sexual favors for players. And Wright State gets what may actually be a more severe penalty because they unknowingly hired the guy with a connection to the mess at Ohio State. Let me hear again from the posters who don't think the NCAA treats schools with a vastly different set of standards.

[Bravesguy]

These guys were clearly guilty of paying cash to secure and retain a recruit, and even providing numerous impermissable benefits such as a live in "nanny" who even provided intimate services for the recruit, and still they only get probation!

[SFP]

Does any of this suprise you! The NCAA also looked into their football program. It all has to do with $$$$$. BCS schools generate more so they can get away with more. There is nothing new here or in our society. Those with the $$ see a different justice system then the rest. The only way to change this would be for schools that believe in fairness and are not part of the latter form a union of sorts and withold or threat to leave the NCAA. Remeber the NCAA is only an association that is as good as its members. This is big business and nothing else. Right now it is looking more like the mafia is running it then individuals with scrupples.

[BTID]

Jerry Tarkanian once quipped that the NCAA investigators were so upset about the infractions they uncovered at Kentucky that they decided to give Cleveland State the "Death Penalty"! Each school has to uphold the standards put forth by the NCAA, which after all, is comprised of its member institutions. The rules that govern the NCAA are immense. It seems like they cover every possible contingency that arises for student-athletes. Good luck trying to clean up the mess--as far as Wright State getting hammered too, I guess they should have seen it coming if they knowingly hired someone who had a cloud over their head. For schools like Ohio State which has an athletic budget bigger than the GNP for most nations, this is like being sent to bed without any supper.

[Biff]

The penalty Ohio State got is similar to punishing a bank robber by telling him he better not do it again, and that the court would consider that whatever benefits the robber got from the money he stole would be wiped off the books.

[Roll with the Funches]

There is no more pathetic punishment than simply saying that an event that is easily verifiable as having taken place, actually, in fact did not take place because it's off the record books. I hate that punishment.