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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Top-ranked Ohio State will be without two cornerbacks -- one a starter and the other a top reserve -- who have been suspended for the Allstate BCS Championship Game against LSU, according to media reports.

Donald Washington, a sophomore who has started every game this season for the Buckeyes (11-1), and backup Eugene Clifford were suspended for violating team rules, WCMH-TV and The Columbus Dispatch reported Wednesday.

How funny. The media once again breaking a story before they had the facts, just so they could be the first ones to break the story. Washington is NOT suspended and it doesn't seem that he ever was. They got only half of the information and ran with it and now they look like a bunch of schmucks.

I don't think anyone even knows yet why Clifford is suspended.
Oh well. Typical media.

tekekini wrote:How funny. The media once again breaking a story before they had the facts, just so they could be the first ones to break the story. Washington is NOT suspended and it doesn't seem that he ever was. They got only half of the information and ran with it and now they look like a bunch of schmucks.

I don't think anyone even knows yet why Clifford is suspended.
Oh well. Typical media.

Les Miles agrees with you

I wonder if Tek would've been so quick to respond to that if it were a BG story...oh well.

NBC 4 in Columbus was quick to jump on this story naming the washington guy saying it was drug related.

Then there was another story that came out this week about Sweatervest breaking NCAA rules flying his players on his jet to the NCAA basketball championship to schmooze with donors. Typical.

Tricky_Falcon wrote:NBC 4 in Columbus was quick to jump on this story naming the washington guy saying it was drug related.

Then there was another story that came out this week about Sweatervest breaking NCAA rules flying his players on his jet to the NCAA basketball championship to schmooze with donors. Typical.

The two players had already graduated and were no longer student athletes and were being rewarded for being named academic all-americans, there was nothing in the article about "donor schmoozing". The NCAA determined that the trip was a violation because it's could've been used to recruit them as future donors to the university, which is ridiculous, but that's typical of the NCAA.

bgsukid wrote:there was nothing in the article about "donor schmoozing".

"The school told the NCAA about the incident and said in its report that the trip was used to "cultivate the relationship of future and current donors." "

But who needs details?

TG1996 wrote:

bgsukid wrote:there was nothing in the article about "donor schmoozing".

"The school told the NCAA about the incident and said in its report that the trip was used to "cultivate the relationship of future and current donors." "

But who needs details?

I know what it said. I don't see where it's says anything about them schmoozing with current donors? That was what I thought was being inferred. It says the trip was used to used to cultivate a relationship that would encourage them to be donors and they only said that because that's technically what the NCAA determined could have been done on that trip. If the purpose was really to recruit donors why would they have taken Stan White and not somebody like Ted Ginn would obviously was going to be a high draft pick and make a lot more money?

Obviously you didn't read the report. Here try it again.


Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel wanted to reward two of his players for being named Academic All-Americans. Unfortunately for Tressel, his actions resulted in reporting a secondary violation to the NCAA, according to a published report.

Receiver Anthony Gonzalez and fullback Stan White Jr. joined Tressel on a private jet to see the Buckeyes' men's basketball team play in the Final Four earlier this year, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported.

Tressel reportedly believed the act was OK since both players had already used up all their eligibility, signed with an agent and were no longer considered student-athletes by the school.

The paper said Ohio State compliance director Doug Archie spotted White and Gonzalez sitting with Tressel. The school told the NCAA about the incident and said in its report that the trip was used to "cultivate the relationship of future and current donors."

The compliance office spoke and didn't even know what was going on. How does it have anything to do with cultivating a relationship of future donors when his plan was to reward them, after the season, after they had graduated for their accomplishments?

This dufus is automatically assuming that Gonzo and White were ever going to donate? Stan prolly doesn't have any money to donate. He is not in the NFL. He is just starting out in the real world.

It is a stupid rule that has nothing to do with football or cheating or influencing a player to come play for the Bucks. Why does this rule even exist?

Pointless.

tekekini wrote:How does it have anything to do with cultivating a relationship of future donors when his plan was to reward them, after the season, after they had graduated for their accomplishments?

Guys with deep pockets that love big time college athletics love to whip it out and tell their friends they hung with Stud Player X. Gonzalez would fill that role, no matter what his standing is.

I agree that the rule is somewhat sketchy that they can't do certain things for players that excel, esp. in the classroom, but rules are rules. This one was broken.

I don't believe those guys had graduated yet.

redskins4ever wrote:I don't believe those guys had graduated yet.

Doesn't matter both had agents and were no longer student-athletes in the NCAA eyes.

Falcon137 wrote:

redskins4ever wrote:I don't believe those guys had graduated yet.

Doesn't matter both had agents and were no longer student-athletes in the NCAA eyes.

I hate it when I get a student athlete in my eye. Especially offensive linemen. God, that hurts.

TG1996 wrote:

tekekini wrote:How does it have anything to do with cultivating a relationship of future donors when his plan was to reward them, after the season, after they had graduated for their accomplishments?

Guys with deep pockets that love big time college athletics love to whip it out and tell their friends they hung with Stud Player X. Gonzalez would fill that role, no matter what his standing is.

I agree that the rule is somewhat sketchy that they can't do certain things for players that excel, esp. in the classroom, but rules are rules. This one was broken.

I know it is a rule my point is that it is a worthless rule. It in no way, shape, or form helps OSU accomplish anything further on the field, court, ice, etc. It is a worthless rule that doesn't even have any punishment accompanied with it. The only punishment is that it gives the media something to talk about for 10 minutes. What a waste of time.