AMAZING. He actually looks like Brutus out of costume as well.

lol... Look at the map under the poll... with the exception of 3 states (Ohio being 1), Rufus is being voted as a hero.

Looking at the map, maybe we can get that home-and-home with Boise State that Love is craving. They love us there.

MoJo,

I (and I'm pretty sure I'm the only one on this board) absolutely have criticized the Reynolds situation and other examples of Vest Discipline by Convenience in the past.  As you'll also see via other posts though, I am not one that finds the Rufus fiasco even remotely humorous.  I see it for the black eye that it is on many levels.  This leaves your argument without merit.

On a related note, I'm sure the Big 10 front office had nothing at all to do with Barry's endorsement of that joke of a punishment in an effort to extinguish the spotlight as quickly as possible.  Do you honestly think if that had been a non conference game they'd have reached out to the other school for approval?  The Vest suspended a 3^rd string QB for more than half the season for soliciting a prostitute.  Now I am by no means condoning that behavior, but I'm pretty sure it's no where near as serious an offense as assault.

DA,

Your post regarding the tornado damage / recovery was dead on.  I just wanted to set the record straight and will publicly vow to leave this and any other A&M related commentary in the cupboard until we play them again and I can honestly say never would be too soon... 

CC:  point you are missing here is at the end of the day those in Cutler Hall are the ones who matter, especially in this day of politics and budgets on campus, those guys and gals need a good image to help the fight.

Cutler has little control over the national rankings (personally I think they could do more to discourage), but they have direct control how those in uniform conduct themselves, and how those preform who oversee things like Rufus.

this alone made my monday morning start off a good note....  seriously


take a step back all you die-hard fans and laugh. this will be old news after saturday

No one called for anyone's job, at least I didn't, and yes those in charge of Rufus failed to follow protocol and allowed a non-student to participate.  The guy was asleep at the wheel.

You don't think negative publicity makes things harder to defend and even promote?

Arkley reports people are laughing at us while Troop reports it is the best publicity we have had since Georgetown.

Both are journalists.

Which one is right?  Likely both are right, and both are wrong to some degree.

However, there are 310,000,000 people in the US, 6,700,000,000 in the world.  And 99.99% of them don't even know this prank happened.

Next...

As a business owner and CEO, I would be disturbed if Cutler got their panties in a knot over this and re-direct funding, but DID NOT over the arrests and behavior of members of our teams then THEY deserve to have BAD days.  The team members in uniform (and the leaders that allow poor behavior to continue and even be rewarded - "sure, you can come back on the team, we'll just bounce this kid from the team to make a spot for you....again.") are the ones that Cutler should be concerned with.  Don't put all that on this event.  That is absurd.  It is a kid in a costume.

As an outsider I have resisted commenting, but have read the discussion with interest because oddly, I agree with virtually all the posts.
1. Someone was asleep at the wheel to allow a non-student to participate, and they should be reprimanded.
2. Ohio did owe OSU an apology, and acted promptly and responsibly in giving a very appropriate and well-written one.
3. Cutler hall should in no way be pleased with this. They can not condone something like this.
4. Ohio acted appropriately in banning the student, about all it had the authority to do.
5. The student could be charged with assault - it was an assault, and he admits it was premeditated. He probably won't be, though.
6. There is no real way to effectively prevent something like this. Even if they had limited Rufus to students, some actual student could have plotted the same thing.
7. While parts of the interaction were perhaps humorous, there was nothing funny about the attempted blow below the belt.
8. In the long run most of the details will be quickly forgotten, but the photo of Rufus tackling the nut will live on.
9. The incident has without a doubt increased the national awareness that Ohio and OSU are not the same.
10. In the long run this will not have a negative impact on the University, because the University dealt with it quickly and appropriately, but it may have some limited long term positive impact from increased awareness of Ohio University.

Anyway, I thought that in 10 pages of posts on this, there were very few that didn't make good points.

Agreed on all points. Also, to expand on point 6 and tie it in to some previous discussions, while it's also true that this could happen at a school like Ohio State with their mascot, it's alot less likely to happen there. You have a student body that loves their buckeyes, their mascot, their tradition. It's clear from his interviews that this guy doesn't really care about Ohio University Athletics. He's just a former student that wanted alittle attention. He got it.