If so....

Sept. 18, 2010: Ohio 2, Ohio State 0

I guess that makes us the first MAC school ever with a win over OSU, huh?

Sadly I think you're right Flomo. I think they used to do the 2-0 thing, but not anymore. Who knows, maybe we could petition. ;)

OCF...Technically I don't think it would be a forfeited game, but rather a vacated game.

Well, Mike, this is one of the most cockamamie schemes I've ever heard of.  Back in the day, teams actually forfeited games when they used ineligible players or committed other verifiable transgressions.  Way back in 1967 Ohio was behind Oxford Tech in the MAC standings and toward the end of the season it was discovered the Kent State had used an ineligible player in its victory over Ohio.  The Bobcat's loss to KSU was changed to a win, and a score of 1-0 was entered in the record book.  As a result Ohio tied for the championship.  That evoked the now famous quote from Bo Schembechler, "They can play football in Athens until Hell freezes over and they still won't deserve the championship." (from memory but very close to the actual quote)  It seems to me if you've won a game and then irregularities are discovered that the fair thing to do is force a forfeit not this weird "vacate" thing.  Now in basketball in a tournament situation it's a little different.  In this situation if a team would forfeit a game, it would create havoc up and down the bracket that that team was in.  Therefore, to simply "vacate" a game in that context makes sense.  Otherwise, however, I agree with the writer:  it's a "metaphysical NCAA mystery."  Or, in more plain language, it's a little bit of incoherent thinking on the part of the NCAA warlords.  

I've just seen this thing from a glance-at-the-headlines view.  But it seems that columbus panicked when the yahoo story broke.  Apparently the press conf was called so quickly that they didn't have time to rehearse so as to at least APPEAR not to be in big violation.  They must've felt they had to respond fast, so didn't have time to come up with plausibility and words that at least sounded good.

They got a big stink and they stunk it up.

An ineligible player accounted for every touchdown against Ohio last year.

Not saying we could have won, but these guys made major impacts for the Buckeyes last season.

OK. I didn't know that.  

Ohio State University - Columbus continues to embarrass themselves and take arrogant approach to this situation/  Now they are saying they were really going to bring the hammer down and keep Tressel out of Spring Practice - oh my!! The players I knew in college said Spring Practice was for time with your position coach.  But then they were QBs.

And we'd have shown somewhat better in columbus if the coaches hadn't played a qb who wasn't ready and gone to the fetal position offense.  When they put Boo in (mid third-quarter, I believe) it actually began to look that we had brought our offense to the stadium instead of having two sides of defense.

On the general topic of the A&M "mindset" here in Columbus (as in "We can do no wrong"), one of the most influential ex-Buckeyes ever, Kirk Herbstreit, is selling his Columbus home and moving to a city where he has never lived, worked or played - Nashville, TN.

Why, you ask?  Because when it comes to A&M.  Being objective isn't enough for them - only gratuitous praise and biased analysis will do.

“Eighty to ninety percent of the Ohio State fans are great. It’s the vocal minority that make it rough. They probably represent only 5 to 10 percent of the fan base, but they are relentless.”

Well done, Buckeyes!

(I predict that I will now be reminded by our many closet A&M fans just how anti-OSU Herbstriet really is.  1....., 2......, )

Reading the redacted April emails from the attorney is adding to my cynicism of our system whereby those that have, can get away with much and that the typical stiff has little chance.  

Look at the confidential information that this OSU coach was receiving regarding all kinds of nefarious activities going on regarding drug dealings and federal investigations.  How many stings are never successful because of leaks from bar members, law enforcement, judges and elected officials.

Lawyers like this tipping the coach off is outrageous to me.  What if one of the players was actually the drug supplier and a coach could get him out of the situation before the sting goes down?

It is absolutely no wonder that an elected official making $50 grand per year winds up with millions just from influence they wield of having insider information.  All us common folk have little chance at the deals these power brokers receive.

I've long known that my Cleveland is a scum bag city with it's influence peddling where billions of tax revenues are stolen from producers to go to programs benefiting so few of these peddlers and their friends.  Well, now with the esteemed Atty General Marc Dann,  and guys like this lawyer I realize that Columbus has indeed made it to the big time in graft. Really looking forward to the Danny Green movie with the Columbus character coming to a theater near you.....real soon.