Tattoo-Gate--5 tOSU players suspended for the first five games of NEXT year?

[sadaist]

You mean like this: Terrelle Pryor's new 2009 tattoo:

Is that an O for OSU? Or a zero, for how much money he is allowed to have while attending & playing for them?

[POJO_Risin]

Here's my take on it...

http://bleedingbuckeyescarlet.blogspot.com/2010/12/ohio-state-football-six-buckeyes.html

[chefcraig]

It appears as though five Ohio State players...Terrelle Pryor, Boom Herron, Devier Posey, and Mike Adams are the four starters out for five games next season for trading university stuff for tattoos in 2009.

Oh joy...of course...they can make the NCAA money in the bowl game...

Terrelle Pryor's legacy? No national titles, no heisman trophies...and a five game suspension his senior year.

It's interesting to note that the suspension is for 5 games. If it had been for six, the players would have missed the Nebraska game. You don't suppose...

[High Life Man]

Yet Auburn avoids the death penalty. What a joke.

[hideyoursheep]

Tattoos for autographs is hardly "taking money" . This is horseshit. But selling THE GOLD PANTS?!?!? THE GOLD PANTS?!?!

[hideyoursheep]

If only these students would have used their parents as deal brokers, then everything would have been fine, right Cameron Newton?


Fuck the goons from the NCAA.

[Nitro Express]

I guess the NCAA has gone communist. There is no such thing as private property or the right to sell it. You know, private property like championship rings. Now they are acting like they own everything the players do. Welcome back to the plantation boys. The plantation owns your ass and wants all the fruits of your labor for themselves.

[hideyoursheep]

So- if a student owns a vehicle that was given to them by a family member, they aren't permitted to sell it? These rules are shady.

If what these guys did was blalantly against the rules, they should be suspended for the Sugar Bowl. I haven't noticed ANYONE on the Bret Favre Network- er, ESPN, call the NCAA out on how these kids are used by the NCAA to make TONS of money.

[hideyoursheep]

Now Jim Tressell has stated that in order for the players in question to play in the Sugar Bowl, they had to PLEDGE to return for next season, otherwise serve the suspension immediately. Nice move.

[chefcraig]

If what these guys did was blalantly against the rules, they should be suspended for the Sugar Bowl. I haven't noticed ANYONE on the Bret Favre Network- er, ESPN, call the NCAA out on how these kids are used by the NCAA to make TONS of money.

The guys on Pardon The Interruption and Around The Horn were up in arms about it last week, blasting the hypocrisy of the NCAA. Both shows are off the air this week because of bowl games.