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发帖数: 4978 | 1 Ohio State coach Jim Tressel was informed that several Buckeyes players were
selling memorabilia more than eight months before the school claims it was
made aware of the scheme, a two-month Yahoo! Sports investigation has found.
Tressel received information that players were selling items to Edward Rife
– the owner of Fine Line Ink Tattoos in Columbus – as early as April 2010,
according to a source. However, neither Ohio State nor the NCAA
investigated the transactions or the players’ relationship with Rife until
December 2010, when the school claims it was informed of the situation by
the local United States Attorney’s office.
Ohio State director of compliance Doug Archie declined immediate comment
when reached Monday by Yahoo! Sports. Tressel and athletic director Gene
Smith were unavailable for comment. The NCAA declined comment.
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A federal probe into Rife revealed he was in possession of multiple pieces
of Buckeyes football memorabilia that previously belonged to five players:
quarterback Terrelle Pryor, running back Dan Herron, wideout DeVier Posey,
defensive end Solomon Thomas and offensive lineman Mike Adams. Federal
officers contacted the school Dec. 7 to determine if the goods were stolen
or instead sold by the players for cash, as Rife claimed.
According to a source, a concerned party reached out to Tressel last April,
alerting the coach that memorabilia transactions had taken place between
Rife and a handful of Buckeyes players, including Pryor. The selling of
items violates NCAA eligibility rules. The source said Tressel was troubled
by the information, and the coach indicated that he would investigate the
matter and take appropriate action.
Whether the coach initiated an investigation of the accusation is unclear,
but all five players remained on the field in the coming months, playing out
the 2010 regular season.
After Ohio State alerted the NCAA of the memorabilia sales in early December
, the NCAA’s student-athlete reinstatement staff ruled the players were
banned from the first five regular-season games of 2011. The players also
had to repay the improper benefits gained – $2,500 for Pryor, $1,505 for
Thomas, $1,250 for Posey, $1,150 for Herron and $1,000 for Adams. Linebacker
Jordan Whiting also had to pay $150 to a charity for receiving a discounted
tattoo.
But in a controversial part of the decision – which included lobbying by
Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany, according to Smith – the NCAA’s
reinstatement staff ruled in late December that the five players were
eligible for the 2011 Sugar Bowl game against Arkansas.
At a Dec. 23 press conference, Smith claimed the school first became aware
of the memorabilia sales on Dec. 7. Smith said the athletic department was
told the following day and immediately launched an investigation.
If Tressel failed to inform Smith or the Ohio State compliance department
about the players’ dealings with Rife, he could be charged with multiple
NCAA violations including unethical conduct, failure to monitor and a
failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance. In general, a coach is
required to act on, or pass along reasonable information about possible rule
violations for further investigation.
Section 4.1(d) of Tressel’s contract with Ohio State stipulates that he “
supervise and take appropriate steps to ensure … members of the Team know,
recognize and comply with any such laws, University Rules and Governing
Athletic Rules and immediately report to the (Athletic) Director and to the
(Athletic) Department’s Office of Compliance Services in writing if any
person or entity, including without limitation, representatives of Ohio
State’s athletic interests, has violated or is likely to violate any such
laws, University Rules and Governing Athletic Rules.”
Section 5.1 (m) of his contract also states that failure to promptly report
“any violations” could lead to “termination by Ohio State for cause.”
Ohio State itself could be cited with playing ineligible players and forced
to vacate its 2010 season, when it won a share of the Big Ten championship
and finished 12-1. It could also face further sanctions for major
infractions.
Smith was adamant at the Dec. 23 news conference that no one at Ohio State
knew of the situation until the U.S. Attorney contacted them in early
December.
“The athletic department was informed on Dec. 8,” Smith said.
At the Dec. 23 news conference, Smith made a point of running through the
timeline of the case and thanking federal authorities for bringing the
information to the university so it could act. He detailed each step of the
10-day investigation and subsequent dealings with the NCAA and Big Ten
office, right up to being told of suspensions by the NCAA on the afternoon
of Dec. 22.
Tressel neither corrected Smith nor publicly expressed any prior knowledge
of the case. He intimated he had found out about the memorabilia sales
recently saying he needed time to recover from the disappointment. “I’m
trying to let the holidays temper me down so I’ll be more jolly on the 26th
,” Tressel said.
Tressel expressed disappointment with the players after the suspensions were
announced, stating that while Ohio State should’ve done a better job
explaining the rules on memorabilia sales, the players’ probably knew they
were doing something wrong.
“I think we all have a little sensor within us, ‘Well, I’m not sure if I
should be doing this,’” Tressel said. “And then sometimes it gets
overridden by what you think your necessity is. …”
“There’s a gut-wrenching feeling when you lose a game and you know you
could’ve done better,” he continued later. “And then there’s one that
goes beyond when you don’t feel as if you did what you should do as people.
So whatever the next step of gut-wrenching is, that’s the way you feel.
And we feel a responsibility for our kids on and off the field. Obviously,
it’s painful.”
Tressel also suggested that the responsibility of rules compliance
ultimately falls on the coaching staff.
“I think ultimately we as coaches feel as if the buck stops here – that we
’re the ones that need to make things even more crystal clear than when a
compliance officer might spend time with our team or an outside speaker or
whatever it happens to be,” he said. “The bottom line is that we feel as
if that’s our responsibility, so obviously we don’t feel good about the
fact that we fell short.”
According to the Ohio State investigation, the five players sold multiple
items to Rife, who displayed some of the memorabilia on his Facebook page.
Among the pieces sold were Pryor’s 2009 Fiesta Bowl sportsmanship award,
Herron’s jersey, multiple Big Ten championship rings and multiple golden
pants pendants awarded to the players for victories over the University of
Michigan. Pryor, Posey, Herron, Thomas and Whiting were also cited for
receiving discounted tattoos from Rife.
The Columbus Dispatch reported on Jan. 2 that Pryor had been “stopped for
traffic violations on three separate occasions while driving cars that were
owned by a car salesman or a Columbus used-car lot where the salesman worked
.” He’d also been allowed to test drive a car for the weekend to his home
in Pennsylvania.
Archie said the school knew of two of the incidents and had deemed nothing
improper. He said the school would investigate the third traffic stop in a
borrowed car. There has been no update on that internal investigation.
Tressel, 58, has been a head coach for 25 years, the last 10 at Ohio State.
His Buckeye teams have won at least a share of the last six Big Ten titles
and captured the 2002 BCS national championship.
Contact Yahoo! Sports investigative reporter Charles Robinson at
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http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news;_ylt=AjKVTjpaNFo2vD0 | H*****r
发帖数: 764 | 2 如果这是真的。想想碗赛前JT对犯事球员正直的训斥。。。well no major program is
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【在 P*****t 的大作中提到】
: Ohio State coach Jim Tressel was informed that several Buckeyes players were
: selling memorabilia more than eight months before the school claims it was
: made aware of the scheme, a two-month Yahoo! Sports investigation has found.
: Tressel received information that players were selling items to Edward Rife
: – the owner of Fine Line Ink Tattoos in Columbus – as early as April 2010,
: according to a source. However, neither Ohio State nor the NCAA
: investigated the transactions or the players’ relationship with Rife until
: December 2010, when the school claims it was informed of the situation by
: the local United States Attorney’s office.
: Ohio State director of compliance Doug Archie declined immediate comment
| T*********s
发帖数: 2987 | | b**j
发帖数: 20742 | 4 没证据啊。搞了半天就一个anonymous source.. come on. hehe
were
was
found.
Rife
2010,
until
【在 P*****t 的大作中提到】
: Ohio State coach Jim Tressel was informed that several Buckeyes players were
: selling memorabilia more than eight months before the school claims it was
: made aware of the scheme, a two-month Yahoo! Sports investigation has found.
: Tressel received information that players were selling items to Edward Rife
: – the owner of Fine Line Ink Tattoos in Columbus – as early as April 2010,
: according to a source. However, neither Ohio State nor the NCAA
: investigated the transactions or the players’ relationship with Rife until
: December 2010, when the school claims it was informed of the situation by
: the local United States Attorney’s office.
: Ohio State director of compliance Doug Archie declined immediate comment
| H*****r
发帖数: 764 | 5 证据到NCAA probe时自然一个个地蹦出来，就跟小树丛那时一样
【在 b**j 的大作中提到】
: 没证据啊。搞了半天就一个anonymous source.. come on. hehe
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: Rife
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| L*1
发帖数: 11537 | 6 If OSU is out, will Wisc lose co-champion and MSU be the sole champion? | l********l
发帖数: 1432 | 7 vacate wins at most
so, Wisc and MSU will be co-champion...
【在 L*1 的大作中提到】
: If OSU is out, will Wisc lose co-champion and MSU be the sole champion?
| L*1
发帖数: 11537 | 8 Forgot about that. The co-champions of MSU and Wisc will not be affected.
But if OSU is out, MSU should go to the Rose Bowl instead. What a pity for
MSU fans! | b**j
发帖数: 20742 | 9 咱们做事肯定滴水不漏。看晚上的press conf吧。呵呵
【在 L*1 的大作中提到】
: If OSU is out, will Wisc lose co-champion and MSU be the sole champion?
| P*****t
发帖数: 4978 | 10 这种事不会空穴来风，不过呢，你们的JT还是会安然无恙的。
【在 b**j 的大作中提到】
: 没证据啊。搞了半天就一个anonymous source.. come on. hehe
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| b**j
发帖数: 20742 | 11 我想多半是真的。估计连AD一起卷进去的。不过应该不会有书面证据吧
【在 P*****t 的大作中提到】
: 这种事不会空穴来风，不过呢，你们的JT还是会安然无恙的。
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