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[Camron Rust]

Come on mark, this is not really defensible.

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

And Jim Tressel got hosed by the NCAA. There was no violations by OSU players. They sold items that belonged to them. The NCAA penalized Tressel, the players, OSU for imaginary rules violations.

That is a violation if the selling of the stuff was enabled by their football status while they were still players....and it was. They sold the items for more than their intrinsic value as a result of their "amateur" football achievements.

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

Furthermore, the alleged information that Tressel withheld from the NCAA was actually information that Tressel was not entitled to have; the information was confidential client-lawyer information which the lawyer had a duty not to reveal to Tressel.

Irrelevant. He had it. Only the lawyer is free from having to reveal it. A coach has no such requirement or protection. He deliberately withheld the information...perhaps lied about it.

What is really a shame is that they deferred the punishment for the players until the following season so they could play in a bowl game then declare for the draft so they wouldn't have any penalty at all. And then, the players that stayed paid their penalty by being ineligible for a bowl the next year.

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

The lawyer has since been disbarred by the Bar of the State of Ohio.

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The NCAA punished Tressel for trivial horse manure while SEC coaches get away with far worse stuff. Case in point: Cam Newton and Auburn University.

MTD, Sr.

And here you bring up a case where neither the school nor the player did anything at all. There were suspicions, but there was no evidence or facts....unlike the OSU situation. And while I'm enjoy watching Auburn, I'm not a Auburn fan.