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sb144904 said...
as im reading this thread your starting to piss me off dude. the osu fans are on here being reasonable trying to explain the situation to the best understanding that anyone has and all you have done with each post you have had is acting like a jerk. show some class and grow up
A buckeye demanding class from another fanbase. That right there is downright hilarious.
MSU isn't a very good football program.. takes year of consistent winning to get to that level. - copemoney 1/22/13
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csweezy63 said...
OSU just released a statement that nothing happened that would make him a booster so idk what to believe. I believe my friend thought he sold the pervert drinks but then again, it was a very busy night in Columbus the night of the Spring game and the bars were packed. He said he served the dude but it would be hard to remember someone in a bar when it was that packed and he didn't know who he was at the time so idk. If something more would have happened, OSU would have reported it to the NCAA. They aren't messing around with any of that stuff since TatGate. But even if this is true, this happens all over the place. It's just a big deal because people are watching us so intensely. People are delusional if they think that big name recruits and college players ever pay for drinks when they go out to bars anywhere. They're like celebrities in the college towns and everyone wants to hang out with them. I've been at the bar with Offutt and Taylor from OU, and with Dion Waiters at Cincy. People are offering to buy them drinks left and right. It happens everywhere, including Michigan.
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MrWoodson said...
Yes and no. Some programs are culturally more open to these types of problems than others. If you told me that Denard Robinson and Roy Roundtree were hosting a pair of 17 year old prospects Spring Game weekend and they took those prospects bar hopping, I would be very surprised. And introducing them to middle aged "superfans" who spend the night buying them drinks? No, I just don't see that. The OSU/Waugh situation clearly is not on the same scale as the Miami/Nevin Shapiro situation, but it's the exact same sort of culture (and the same culture that led to Tatgate, Bobby D and Dennis Talbott). It will be very interesting to see if Urban punishes a single player who was part of that evening's activities. Does anyone at OSU think they did anything wrong at all?
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AllDay28 said...
Drinking is what everyone does on every recruiting visit. I didn't take a single recruiting visit to a school where I didn't drink (and I took quite a few to quite a few different schools). And Ohio State didn't introduce him to anyone. He approached the kids and had been doing so on his own. It was in no way set up by the university and there were no university officials involved. It's irrational to assume that the university should be able to control who approaches kids, at night, when they go out. It's people attempting to turn it into something it's not.
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AllDay28 said...
Drinking is what everyone does on every recruiting visit. I didn't take a single recruiting visit to a school where I didn't drink (and I took quite a few to quite a few different schools). And Ohio State didn't introduce him to anyone. He approached the kids and had been doing so on his own. It was in no way set up by the university and there were no university officials involved. It's irrational to assume that the university should be able to control who approaches kids, at night, when they go out. It's people attempting to turn it into something it's not.
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thevictor_11 said...
Yeah I see someone trying to turn this into something it's not right here. Because it's not ok for current players to be taking 17 year olds to bars and meeting up w/ a convicted sex offender. This same convicted sex offender met w/ current players the next day at Chipotle... so to act like he was some stranger popping up w/ a tray of drinks is comical. Since this happens at every school i'd be interested to see some of these pics since it's so common.
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AllDay28 said...
Honestly, there are a lot of explanations for that. One certainly is that they were really good friends. Sure, I acknowledge that. But it's also possible, as it happens all the time on twitter, that he simply asked them to follow him and they did so. Lots of fans do that. But what we do know for a fact is that the officials didn't attempt to put them together. He approached them when they were out at the bar. Certainly the staff can't be held responsible for screening every person who goes to the bar and attempts to meet players and recruits.
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AllDay28 said...
Are we really getting indignant over underage drinking? Honestly? And I'm not sure I took any pictures on my recruiting visits at night, if you know what I mean. But anyone who has played a sport at the division level knows that, when on recruiting trips, you drink and party.
And, in fact, it is basically a guy popping up with drinks. These kids didn't know him. And while some of the players knew him because he had done it before, you can't expect the university to keep track of every player that converses with the students when they are out at night. Your fan base is just trying to make it into an issue it's not.
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TAMUWolverine said...
Come on... You truly believe that they followed the guy on twitter, he was at the bar with your recruits and then he had meals the next day with your recruits and it's all just a coincidence and he's just some random fan that your coaching staff wasn't aware of? You'd have to believe your coaching staff is full of clowns for them not to know about a guy hanging around them like that. What's more likely is they knew about him but didn't know about his past, why's that hard to admit?
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RicoX19 said...
AD...everything you say is correct until this meal at Chipotle, which has to raise some eyebrows. I don't and the Anzalones do NOT hold OSU responsible for the actions of this guy. I think what their position is, whether or not they were already looking to decommit, that they sent their son to Columbus and the picture arises. I think they got spooked, and probably spooked enough to warrant their second thoughts on their initial choice of OSU.
Can I ask, how did this even come out? Like how did they finally piece together that this kid was a pedophile and hanging with recruits? Did something happen or did they see something?
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AllDay28 said...
It's my understanding that actual OSU boosters reported this guy to the compliance office.
As far as chipotle. I'm not sure. From what I heard this dude offered when he was out at night and the kids agreed. Not that it was pre-planned. But it's all rumors when it comes to that at this point.
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AllDay28 said...
It's my understanding that actual OSU boosters reported this guy to the compliance office.
As far as chipotle. I'm not sure. From what I heard this dude offered when he was out at night and the kids agreed. Not that it was pre-planned. But it's all rumors when it comes to that at this point.
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