Throughout the NCAA, players are hurting. Not only are they in agony, but also their extended families. Yet that information is ignored, even denied by the governing body of college athletics.
Every so often we catch a glimpse of a player whose family is so down, so destitute that they are begging for help. Families who are looking to get in from the cold, their electric turned back on, and their gas lit so they can be warm. Yet colleges, boosters or even some person looking to help cannot because it would be a violation of the rules the NCAA has instituted.
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Pryor Had Reasons for His Infractions
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Usually the Ohio State Buckeyes are well represented in the NFL Draft. It’s not odd for 3-4 players to be drafted in the first rounds, with others being taken later. However this year, after a season in which unrest and inconsistency hampered the buckeyes, only 3 players were taken in the entire 253 picks. Then two more signed on as free agents.
The first player selected was offensive lineman Michael Adams by the Pittsburgh Steelers with the 56th pick overall. Adams dropped into the second round because of his alleged positive drug test at the combine in Indianapolis. This sent Adams to Pittsburgh to try and clear things up with the team he wanted to play for.
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Choice of Buckeyes Sporadic in Draft
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For the first time in years, the Pittsburgh Steelers are at a crossroads in the off season. The Steelers tried to gain youth in the draft across the offensive line with David DeCastro out of Stanford and Mike Adams from Ohio State. Those picks will make quarterback Ben Roethlisberger happy, but what will make him even happier is re-signing receiver Mike Wallace.
Wallace is one of the premier pass catchers in the NFL, and the best on the Steelers, but his contract is up. As a restricted free agent, Wallace really has no options. If a team wanted to sign him prior to the draft would have to give up a first round pick to the Steelers in order to do so. That didn’t happen.
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Steelers go for Offensive Line, Wallace Still on Team
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A new regime began in earnest Saturday. Over 81,000 poured into the horseshoe in Columbus to watch the new Buckeyes spring premier under Urban Meyer. Not only did the crowd watch the annual game, they also were given a peek at the influence Meyer has already instilled into the Buckeye program.
Meyer pulled an old tactic out of the archives of Woody Hayes and Earle Bruce by starting the day with the “Circle Drill”, or “Bull Run” as some know it. Where two players square off and block each other, trying to get one out of the circle. It ended with Quarterbacks Braxton Miller up against Kenny Guiton. Miller threw Guiton to the ground.
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Meyer Tenure in Columbus Begins
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Are changes coming to the BCS? If you listen to Bill Hancock, the Executive Director of the BCS, caution is the word.
Hancock says they look over the system every four years, and that is what they are doing now. But nothing has been, nor will it be soon, decided. Practically everything is on the table, from the format to who can automatically qualify to play in the BCS.
So far the proposals for the next cycle, which begins in 2014, range from minor adjustments to the current system to a four-team playoff plus eight other BCS games that may have no direct impact on the championship. Former coach and Hall of Famer Lou Holtz is definite in his opinion for changes to the BCS.
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BCS Changes Coming?
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For only the Fourth time since Woody Hayes was fired in 1978, the Ohio State Buckeyes are opening spring football drills with a new head coach. Other than Penn State, this might be the hallmark from which other schools have to compare.
After Woody came Earle Bruce, John Cooper, Jim Tressel and now Urban Meyer. All, except for Cooper, had ties to the University. Tressel and Meyer were graduate assistants under Bruce in the 80’s. Bruce was a grad assistant and full time assistant under Hayes. Cooper came to OSU from after taking Arizona State to the Rose Bowl and came out a winner.
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Meyer Brings New Attitude to OSU
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Imagine being a high school football recruit and playing chicken with a highly regarded college football coach. One would think for a player to do that he must be very confident in his abilities, or all the lights aren’t on in the living room. Either way, that is exactly the story of a recruit for the Ohio State Buckeyes.
Urban Meyer took over the Buckeye football program in December and hit the recruiting trail immediately. In the end, Meyer had brought in a top ten recruiting class. Including a highly regarded running back from Canton, Ohio’s GlenOak high school Bri’onte Dunn, a 6’1”, 220 pound power back.
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Meyer Issues Ultimatum and Dunn is a Buckeye
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Once again, the NCAA has shown it’s hypocrisy in the violations they have slapped upon the North Carolina football program. The NCAA Committee on Infractions announced Monday the school failed to monitor its football program and will not be bowl eligible following the 2012 season. UNC also will have to forfeit 15 scholarships over the next three seasons.
Of course the NCAA says you cannot compare violations and punishments, but in this case let’s do just that. It’s amazing how the North Carolina violations are comparable on the surface to what happened at Ohio State under former head coach Jim Tressel. Yet let’s balance the crimes between the two schools and show just how the NCAA has no clue.
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Inconsistency is Part of NCAA
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Over two years ago, a pair of SEC coaches were at each other’s throats. Now things have changed so much they not only are no longer in the SEC, but they seem to be working together.
Those two coaches are Ohio State’s Urban Meyer and USC’s Lane Kiffin. Kiffin was in his only season as head coach of the Tennessee Volunteers. Meanwhile Urban Meyer’s Florida Gators were coming off their second National Championship in the last three seasons.
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Kiffin and Meyer Phone Buddies
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The NCAA has finally stepped up and announced that Oregon has allegedly violated recruiting rules by the way it used recruiting services over the past 4 years. What’s interesting about this is the coverage Oregon and Miami have received during their incidents.
Virtually none.
It has been almost one year since Miami was accused of receiving illegal payments from a convicted felon. Yet the media, specifically ESPN, has said almost nothing about the violations.
The NCAA has been looking into Oregon’s recruiting practices since questions arose over a 2010 payment of $25,000 to Willie Lyles and his Houston-based recruiting service. Lyles had a relationship with a player from Texas who committed to Oregon. Yet again, we have heard almost nothing.
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Biased Coverage of Oregon and Miami Infractions
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