ok, so more about columbus, ohio.......where the scandal just keeps growing......here is an excerpt from sports illustrated... 
Enough is enough
Time for Ohio State president to take bold stance: one-year death penalty
Posted: Thursday November 11, 2004 3:04PM; Updated: Thursday November 11, 2004 3:35PM

Maurice Clarett (seen here in '02 ) is involved in verbal sparring with his former coach Jim Tressel (left).
AP

Successful academic reform ... requires presidential leadership. There are strong forces driving athletics programs toward better and better athletics performance. That is understandable and good: athletics is about winning. But it is essential that the response to these forces be made in a wider context of the mission of universities and colleges, which first and foremost are academic institutions.

The champion for this mission must be the university president ...

-- NCAA president Myles Brand, State of the NCAA speech, Jan. 11, 2004

Question for Dr. Karen Holbrook, president of The Ohio State University, in light of this week's ESPN the Magazine report about alleged improprieties involving Maurice Clarett and the Buckeyes' football program: When will enough be enough? When will you heed Brand's directive, step in and do something about an athletic department that continues to bring more shame and embarrassment to your otherwise reputable university than any glory it may have achieved on the playing field?

Whether or not you believe Clarett's tale of cash-wielding boosters and free-wheeling car dealers -- the guy's credibility is more than a little suspect -- I can only presume that someone like you, Dr. Holbrook, who's devoted her life to the pursuit of higher learning, would be more incensed by some of ESPN's other findings.

In addition to Clarett, four other former players describe being steered by academic advisers to the easiest possible courses with the football-friendliest professors. One, ex-cornerback Curtis Crosby, left OSU in '02 and tried transferring to Grambling only to find out half his credits, which included courses called Officiating Basketball and Officiating Tennis, would be denied. "What are they doing up there at Ohio State?" he says a Grambling adviser asked him. Former running back Sammy Maldonado showed up at Maryland in '02 with a transcript that included four credits for playing football, three for Issues Affecting Student Athletes, 10 for remedial reading, 10 for remedial math and three for Jim Tressel's Coaching Football class.

Tressel is teaching his players in a football coaching class? Are you familiar with Jim Harrick Jr., Dr. Holbrook? I'm guessing you are, considering you came to OSU in '02 ... from Georgia.

not much has changed since i graduated from osu in 1978......in my day, the football players all had new cars...and did not have to attend class.......and supposedly woody hayes said it was ok.....and now supposedly jim tressel says it is ok......but young mr claret has blown the whistle, and now the rich alums who provide these cars and the profs who look the other way when football players fail to attend class have nowhere to hide......i say....throw yourselves at the mercy of the NCAA, but wait until michigan clobbers you......just to punctuate that cheaters may win but they tend to get caught.......