Ohio State University gets a nod and wink. 
A total of $4,934 of improper benefits over a multiple years ranging from $2.34 to $418. Improper reimbursement of a McDonalds meal.
Yet, the football head coach of OSU can knowingly falsify compliance reports, lie to investigators, lobby for their star players under investigation to play in their bowl game appearance, and for all that we should probably expect…
Boise state to get two years probation. Serves them right.:dubious:
In one case the athletic department as a whole was hooking up recruits with free housing, meals, and transportation. In the other, the head coach found out that his players were potentially selling their stuff and didn’t tell the athletic department or the NCAA at all.
Tressel will eventually get fired for what he did, and deservedly so. But the whole point of the OSU violations is that the athletic department didn’t know. And it’s not like they got a slap on the wrist–a five-game suspension for both players and coach isn’t exactly nothing, and the final sanctions haven’t even been handed out.
And they haven’t been handed out to Boise, either. At best, this thread is ridiculously premature.
Did Tressel lobby for his players to play in the bowl game? I’d never heard that- I always heard it as the NCAA having some (lame-ass) justification.
In general, it seems we’re jumping the gun a little here, since the NCAA hasn’t announced sanctions in either case. Also, there’s a big difference, in that the NCAA is accusing Boise State of a lack of institutional control, whereas they’re pinning the blame for the OSU situation squarely on Tressel. Not that I’m a big supporter of the NCAA, but it’s understandable that they’d like to see harsher punishments for schools that encourage or tacitly accept a lax environment that encourages cheating, as opposed to those that might get screwed over by a rogue coach acting secretly.
I highly doubt that. He’s beaten Michigan enough times, his job is pretty secure among the OSU faithful.