Pryor, 4 other Buckeyes suspended next season

[ponyte]

Jut watched ESPN's spin on this. Pretty much a Sgt. Schulz defense. THey had some VP from the NCAA that just flat said that if the kids go pro, then there really is no penalty. One wonders if the NCAA has any intention to be fair has ever crossed these Bozo's pea brains.

[Stallion]

No sanctions for the players but worse case scenario for Ohio St which hoped Pryor was going to return

[Junior]

i can't say i feel the least bit sorry for ohio state. especially if they are making the "we didn't tell them this was illegal" defense.

i hope they suck next year.

and i hope their entire internal enforcement staff gets canned as a holiday gift.

eff OSU.

[b_caesar]

If players are going to be suspended, it should be starting the next game in which they were planning to play. That means the bowl game in Ohio State's case. End of story. Nothing anything can say will fully or adequately justify why they were allowed to play in the bowl game.

[Mitch McConnell]

The NCAA should be embarrassed for this enforcement. Kids, who don't make grades from the semester, are ineligible for bowl games. I'm not stunned that they're playing. They shouldn't be. But when you've got millions of dollars in play and TV ratings at stake, that rules this decision.

This only enables Pryor. Betcha he doesn't even come back next year along with a couple of others.

For the NCAA to truly come down on a school like us or USC, you're going to have to have such media scrutiny behind the alleged activities that the enforcement committee will have no choice. If the media didn't have so much damming evidence against Reggie Bush, I don't think USC would have been slammed.

In a related note, the proliferation of TV driving college football is such to where I think I read the last time a college football program had its TV appearances stripped was in 1996? What does that tell you?