More Ohio State Trouble

[Ironman8]

HBO will report tonight that Stanley McClover received cash and sexual services while on a recruiting visit to Ohio State. He was committed to OSU for some time, but wound up signing with Auburn in the '03 recruiting class.

HBO report: Buckeyes recruiting target plied with sex

Posted by John Taylor on March 29, 2011, 7:29 PM EDT

Given the self-made pickle Jim Tressel finds himself in, and the basketball team’s loss in the NCAA tournament as a No., 1 seed, it’s not been the best of months for two of the Ohio State University’s flagship athletic programs. And, apparently, the negativity surrounding the school is set to continue.

Wednesday night, the HBO show Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, a release from the cable network states, departs from its traditional format to present a special hour-long edition dedicated to the state of college sports in America. Basically, the show will delve into the sticky issue of whether college athletes — football players in particular — should be paid, as well as delving “into the controversial and complex subject of premium college-bound athletes receiving benefits that are prohibited by the NCAA.”

Oh, and sex.

The New York Daily News reports that former college football player Stanley McClover will also appear on the show, and reveals that he received not just cash but (gasp!) sexual services during a recruiting visit to Ohio State. McClover ultimately signed with Auburn, so we don’t know if that says more about quality of the school on The Plains or about the quality of the services (allegedly) rendered at the Columbus school.

On a related note, we’re uncertain whether Gary Barnett will make an appearance on the program to deal with the sexual aspect of recruiting.

HBO report: Buckeyes recruiting target plied with sex | CollegeFootballTalk

[JadeBrecks]

Can we just remove OSU from sports? Anybody hear anything about the NCAA doing anything yet?

[zbikowski88]

Play to Pay at Auburn from the same page

UPDATED 8:14 p.m. ET: Our buddy at SportsByBrooks.com has obtained an advanced copy of the hour-long program and, suffice to say, it does not paint Auburn University in a very positive light. Four ex-Tigers claim during the course of the program that there was a “systematic pay-to-play” scheme in place during and after the recruiting process in which they were given thousands upon thousands of dollars by people — including alumni — purporting to be associated with the school.

Apparently, the key phrase that will be woven throughout the piece will be “money handshake”.

Based on Brooks’ transcription, which can be viewed in its entirety right HERE, there are some very explosive and damning charges that will be leveled against Auburn.

[IrishInColumbus]

Even as an Ohio State student, it doesn't take a rocket scientists to figure out there are hundreds of girls just waiting to bang a football player. It's jersey chasing like you wouldn't believe. That said, it happens everywhere.

The folklore around campus is that Pryor, on his recruiting visit, went to a party and the football player he was with just said "yo who wanna suck TP's ****?" and he went upstairs with like six girls. He now likes to go to parties and say "yo girl you're coming home with me tonight" to a random girl without saying a word to her before that very moment. Surprisingly some are offended by it. On a funny note, he once brought a girl home and had sex with her, then when she tried to stay the night he kicked her out of his bed and made her sleep on the floor. I would feel bad, but the girl obviously didn't have any self-respect to begin with.

There are a trillion stories of football players being given sexual favors on campus, this really is no surprise at all. Pryor though, surpasses all with his arrogance and is relatively hated among the students.

I like to go about my days thinking (errr, hoping) Notre Dame players have a bit more class than the Ohio State idiotic assclown football players do.

[loomis41973]

....and these are the days of our lives.

[IrishLax]

So are Auburn and tOSU going down hard or is the NCAA going to cave?

[IrishMoore1]

I hate to break it to everybody, but as I student I can say the same things happen at Notre Dame. Not necessarily involving recruitment or anything, just how football players are generally "treated" here on campus.