"It's all Jimmy's fault!" and other observations on institutional control

then I read it and I’m glad I did.

How they are not being charged for “lack of institutional control” is beyond me. Not only can they not control their players, but they cannot seem to control their coach.

I don’t want to see a B1G school go through this, as it makes the rest of us look bad. However I do hope the NCAA comes down on tOSU so hard that those smug jerks can’t talk for years.

Can the B1G levie penalties as well?

Plain and simple.

there was a graphic about Tressel that included 9-1 Versus Michigan

Seems to be all that matters

Well done!

Thanks for the love. Hope you all enjoy reading as much I as enjoyed writing.

after watching them get away with so much for the past decade. But, the fact of the matter is there’s not enough here to support a Lack of Institutional Control charge—at least not yet. All that’s on the table for consideration is Tressel’s cover-up of the wrongdoing of 5 players and playing them while knowing they were ineligible. There’s no evidence (at least not in the NCAA’s eyes) that this behavior is part of a pattern of non-compliance. There’s no evidence (again, at least not in the NCAA’s eyes) that the administration knew Tressel was a loose cannon, but they still gave him a long leash to keep doing his thing. Maybe more evidence will come out that will give the NCAA no choice but to step up the penalties, but right now, I think they will be pretty tame.

I think the wild card will be Ted Sarniak. That whole situation has always reeked of impropriety, and the Tressel e-mails took it to another level. I’m glad to see that the NCAA is finally going to take a closer look at this guy. If the NCAA proves that Sarniak was assisting (or maybe even directing) Tressel in violating NCAA rules, even after the OSU compliance department had vetted him, that would be serious trouble on an institutional level.

The NCAA is giving OSU the opportunity use Tressel as the scapegoat. The NCAA doesn’t forget Youngstown, trust me. They are dangling a carrot right now. OSU has until August 12 to remove Tressel from coaching. If they don’t, I think the lack of institutional control issue may surface. This is just a preliminary assessment and they are asking for official answers from both OSU and Tressel. They have basically stated that the case against the players is over, the punishment against them is complete. They are not blaming the players for playing when they shouldn’t last year, only for what they did wrong, which is the correct approach. Tressel lied to the school and the NCAA. Dez Bryant got a year suspension for lying about a secondary violation. The NCAA is giving OSU the chance to do something about the situation. The school has reported that the entire situation exists because Tressel didn’t do his job. Now they have a job to do and they don’t seem to be doing it.

Tressel will be fired and Urban Meyer will be hired and OSU will be a better football team for it (not accounting for smarminess, players with questionable backgrounds, etc., which they will continue to have in boatloads).

Considering OSU’s AD was just head of the NCAA Men’s BBall tourney selection committee, I’m not surprised the lack of institutional control charge was not brought.

Very well done, sir.

Remember Andy Katzenmoyer and the SI cover? That was a huge signal flare for the O$U program that was ignored. Then the Clarrett, Troy Smith, and others held up the tradition. I seem to remember an O$U player attempting to transfer to the University of MD a year or two ago and U of M wouldn’t even accept most of his credits. Shameful.

They can still add that charge and have plenty of time to do so.

He brings a “different” value system. As chancellor at LSU he fired Gerry DiNardo (an honorable man) and personally took control of the coaching search — a search that led him to Nick Saban.

Emmert embraces the notion that college athletics is big business and ought to get even bigger. No big program is going to be punished to the point of serious damage so long as Emmert has his way.

the NCAA tends to go easier on a school who cuts ties with the offender. This tends to solidify the sentence from the post that says “The institution fails to make clear, by its words and its actions, that those personnel who willfully violate NCAA rules, or who are grossly negligent in applying those rules, will be disciplined and made subject to discharge.”

The example offered up yesterday on either ESPN or MadDog Radio (i dunno which one I was listening to) was a women’s coach from like Alcorn State. The school decided to keep her on, and so they received a one year ban from postseason play and scholarships.

This leads me to believe the Vests days are numbered. I think if he keeps his job, the penalties will be harsher than if he “resigns”

They just require patience. Eventually, they will get you. It just doesn’t happen as quick as you’d hope. Forefit your season and fire your coach is not a BS penalty. If they choose not to fire Tressel, they’ll get smoked the next time somebody so much as mentions the word tattoo.

I found the article here. There are no references to an ultimatum given by the NCAA, which may have been conjecture by the interviewee on the radio, but oddly the violations look like a hybrid of Michigan and OSU. She was cited for allowing known ineligible players travel (not even play)with the team, providing false or misleading statements, and exceeding practice limits.

Real good stuff. I dug the balance of research/links and opinion, and all permeated by calm reasoning; an argument put forth well is just a lot of fun to read. And I know it doesn’t often come real easily, so thanks again for the effort.

I’m in shock.

Not because it’s you, Adam. Just because I never expect quality work on the internet.

I did a presentation in Nebraska today. Being the fun, social person that I am I let a group of people know they are welcome to my tailgate if they come to the game in November.

A little old lady (I work in the real estate industry, they outnumber everyone) huffed a little and said “do you remember that out of bounds catch? Do you? You don’t do that to the Huskers”! Wow. That little lady is hanging on to a lot of hate folks.

and a 300+ comment thread certainly indicates this (haven’t read through it yet, but that’s what lunch is for, right?)