After USC, Boise St, Miami, the clouds of smoke surrounding Cam Newton/Auburn and, horribly, the Penn State situation, I have a really hard time understanding why people focus so much on Ohio State. Of all the recent scandals, theirs seems to be the least of all evils.
In comparison, tats, hidden emails and an overpaid summer job are pretty minor.
Agreed.
If there were truly such a thing as justice in the world, 'Bama would have received the Death Penalty years ago, followed by USC, Auburn, then possibly Miami, and possibly Penn State, depending on how the investigation plays out from the NCAA side of things (note: there's still talk of Second Mile having an off-the-books slush fund for PSU players...)
But Ohio State. No--nothing they did warrants a complete shut-down of their program because a handful of asshats lied to their coach. Tressel's resignation is valid since he, too, did lie by omission, and frankly his fate and the fate of those players should have been the same and intertwined--complete dismissal from the program.
As it stands now, the penalties levied by the NCAA should be significantly more severe than what has been self-imposed by tOSU, which is where a lot of the disgust comes from. Five scholarships total over three years is hardly a convincing self-penalty, and for a program that is looking for the public to put faith and trust in it again, that hardly seems like a fitting penalty for the crime. If anything, it looks as though tOSU is blatantly mocking/taunting/baiting the NCAA to do worse...
...and that's where the rest of the public disgust comes from, as the NCAA has neither the cojones, nor the ethics, to provide a just penalty any longer.
