Piney...I believe it was reported the dealership reported the purchase price of the original car in question to the state as $0. On a $15,000 car, that could be as much as $1,012 in sales taxes avoided, given Franklin County's 6.75% rate.

You missed the correction. The Dispatch was too lazy to look back further. The title that had $0 on it was when he re-financed the car loan, which is normal operating procedure on re-finances as you don't pay sales tax on that. They found the original title that had the sales price on it (too lazy at the moment to hunt for the listed price)

NCAA has no such power.

From our good friends on the basketball forum:  New O$U Script for the 2012 Season.

Moot point, because unless you are criminally involved our bank records are off limit.

A piece in the "Sports Ticker" in today's The Record  says that Luke Fickell  said "he didn't know of any rules violations because he was focused on his job as a defensive assistant."   

That was paraphrasing what Fickell said. But close enough.


Another bit from his press conference was that he spoke to Frank Solich and asked him for advice.  How dare he help the enemy!!!

Here is an interesting tidbit from Oregon

http://collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/14/cliff...

Could've been about succeeding a legend.

Could've been about surviving an investigation into star players and fast cars.

When Fickell was in middle school, Solich was Doug DuBose's position coach at Nebraska. DuBose, a star running back, caught extra attention at that time for driving a very nice Nissan 300zx:

articles.latimes.com/1989-09-02/sports/sp-1279_1_nebraska-football

A quarter-century later, Pryor's notoriety increased when he drove a 350z to a team function.

Then and now, it was a challenge to figure out how the star got the car and if an "extra benefit" had come their way. No violation was found regarding DuBose. According to the NCAA, most of Maurice Clarett's cars were OK, but one Monte Carlo was not:

www.usatoday.com/sports/college/football/bigten/2004-11-26-clarett-cars_x.htm

If anyone cares to slog through the rulebook, here's a decent link from Niagara University:

www.niagara.edu/ncaa-rules-extra-benefits/

For Pryor's sake, and despite whatever complicity he shares in the overall O$U scandal, I hope the lavish treatment doesn't mess him up the way it messed up DuBose, who got addicted to cocaine at Nebraska and was really struggling as recently as several years ago:

articles.courant.com/2005-05-01/features/0505010019_1_store-manager-arrest-addict

www.facebook.com/people/Doug-DuBose/1577213110

And I hope Bobcat fans will be realistic about OUr chances of seizing the moral high ground, given our pedigree.

 

Dr. Tom

Funny how know one jumped on this, sad day for some on BobcatAttack

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=6686479

You are right.  The cars are a just a nail - the NCAA coffin already exists.

From my reading of the article,I'm not sure OSU is off the hook for the car sales.
The article says that Ohio's BMV determined that no State Laws were broken.However,as the article points out,this doesn't mean that the car sales didn't violate NCAA rules.

My brother in law was a car salesman.
When I went to buy a car from him,I was amazed at  the incentives,discounts, packages etc. that he had available.None of these were,in any way, "illeagal" but not every customer that comes in would either know about them or be able to get them.

If the OSU players, and/or  their families, were given similar treatment,that could violate NCAA rules for players and/or their relatives recieving "special treatment " .