BREAKING: Ohio State banned from postseason play next year
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The hammer just dropped on thee Ohio State University for repeated violations and overall lack of institutional control under Jim Tressel. The worst of the punishments is a ban from postseason play next season.
Here’s the rest via Columbus Dispatch:
* Strip four more football scholarships over the next three years on top of Ohio State’s prior forfeiture of five scholarships over that span.
* Add an additional year of probation to OSU’s self-imposed two-year probation for the football program, meaning any violations through the 2013 season could draw harsher-than-normal penalties.
Former coach Jim Tressel did not escape the wrath of the NCAA.
The NCAA also will hand a show-cause penalty to former head coach Jim Tressel for failing to report that some team members improperly sold memorabilia and for allowing ineligible players to compete throughout the 2010 season.
The show-cause penalty against Tressel signifies he is a serious offender and means that any NCAA school that hires him could be subject to sanctions for appointing him as football coach absent a showing it should escape penalties.
And yet, despite the tomfoolery in Columbus, Urban Meyer was able to steal top recruits from other schools. Amazing. Truly amazing.
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