Well done, Bobda. Somebody has been doing their homework.....I was just going to wait and see if anybody else brought it up and if not, let it go.....there just isn't enough time in the day to respond to every exaggerated tale of wrongdoing and life is too short.....in fact, it's likely that the true value of TP's ride is less than the average in most of the student lots
Ah Terry, after many discussions with you about over signing I understand just how you feel. But remember this, one thing that you said about the over signing issue was that you were just siding with the majority opinion, or something like that. So what do you think of the majority opinion on this issue? Just curious.
And here is a response by his mother that will have to be disproven before TP gets the gas in my opinion: http://www.10tv.com/live/content/teninvestigates/stories/2011/06/01/story-columbus-pryor-mother-denies-wrongdoing.html?sid=102
All those free cars... An old system of payoffs to players... A coach who wears a sweater and a smirk... What is this? UCLA?
These are kids, Terry...not public relations experts. I had friends in college with nice cars...new cars...and some of them were on some kind of a scholarship. Well, maybe they were horses and buggies but the point is the same. I don't know if this car thing has any wheels or not...It will obviously be investigated and we will probably find out. But if Mama bought the car, is making payments on her own, and there is nothing under the table...I'm not going to criticize him for driving it. Hard to imaging my parents picking up the tab for something like that for me when I was in college! :shock:
:idea: The kid got three traffic tickets while driving three different cars. How many cars did mamma buy for him? :?:
......you'll have to go back and look at that one again......I may have said that I am opposed to oversigning by anybody anywhere, independent of conference affiliation because of the litany of reasons I and others have articulated ad nauseaum and that ALSO happens to be the majority view.....nowhere would I have said that I am opposed BECAUSE it is the view of the majority......two VASTLY different things. There are a host of issues in which my view is not held by the majority for a variety of reasons......my view of Tressel has not changed for the reasons I and others have articulated ad nauseaum and is not likely to change until there is new and material information that would compel me to conclude otherwise.....there was nothing new and compelling to me in the SI article.
Ditto what Stu said, I can't imagine TP thought that by driving a 5 year old car purchased for him by his mother that he would be considered to be poking the bear.....I promise there are many many nicer and newer cars than TP's parked in the student lot everyday.....it's frenzy. They've been digging into this car thing for quite a while approaching the better part of a year now, if there is anything to it, we'll find out soon enough......
Between 1972 and 1977 I was in undergraduate and graduate school. I personally owned 3 cars (one at a time) and had driven 5 different ones back and forth to school. Missed out on the tix, though.
Jim, your talents are wasted on history. Perhaps Rhetorical Fiction is more up your alley....consider this plot line...... Evil Genius from Youngstown eschews the tried and true methods of wealthy, deep pocketed donors and well-heeled alums, leaving behind the nice cocktail parties and mansions and corporate board rooms across this great land instead stealing quietly away into "The Bottoms", one of the most notorious and crime-ridden neigborhoods in Columbus. In true genius fashion, he searches for and finds a convicted felon, known drug dealer, state witness in one murder trial and suspected involvement in several others who also happens to run a tatoo parlor - the perfect match partner for the Evil Vest's nefarious plot. Meeting with the seedy crime kingpin, the Evil Vest hatches a deal that would provide him competitive advantage over all of his rivals for a lifetime......sending perhaps - what 26 kids over 10-11 years including 8 or 9 this year let's say 2 kids a year - 2 kids out of a squad of 100 or so - to the "ink man" offering trinkets and other memorabilia in exchange for tats, discounts, tats and some small change, etc.....the real coup de grace for the Evil Vest is that many of these kids seeking the elusive tat have no opportunity to ever see the field except on the practice squad thereby providing true and lasting competitive advantage to the program......brilliant I say. With that genius on the opposite side of righteousness is it any wonder it took them a lifetime to track down the evil one.......that may be the dumbest damn thing I've ever heard
Undergrad and grad 1974-80.....4 cars, more tickets tho....had to pay my parking tickets before they would give you your end of quarter grades and Ma and Pa had to see the grades before they provided any $$$$$ - vicious cycle there!
Never had a car in college had to hoof it or catch a ride. You guys were rich and entitled compared to me :wink:
:lol: Right.....first two years I lived at home and had to commute! My 65 Corvair was air-cooled and the fan also directed the exhaust away from the passenger compartment.....fanbelts were the weak link in the system. When broke, the passenger compartment filled with exhaust so I was always the guy driving down the road with my head sticking out the window a) so I could see, b) so I wouldn't be overcome by fumes!
BT, my first car, bought in 1966, was a '63 navy blue w/white top Corvair convertible. To me it was a cool car......until one day a few years later, when on a business trip to southern Indiana I went over a bump and the two bolts holding the (rear) engine to the frame sheared. The back part of the engine dropped down to the ground. It was still connected via the main connection, but for me the damage was done. I had it repaired but it was never the same again. By the way, it cost me an arm and a leg for a young guy just out of college, starting a new job.........$1,200! :lol:
Convertible, nice ride Sid! Mine was not quite that cool, I got it for like a couple hundred bucks in 1975 - 10 years old at the time and there was a part of the floor on the drivers side rusted through so that I could put my foot down and touch the road.....had my brakes ever failed, I could use the old Fred Flintstone trick!
We had one of those Covairs also, another problem with them was in some conditions with a fast stop the rear end would lose traction and the car would spin. My wife had that happen to her when driving the car and it spun out into US 1 in Miami. She was lucky nothing serious happened.
Creative ....enterprising people up there in Michigan. Especially when the Vest has been cleaning their clock for so many years now. Payback will be sweet if and when it comes for the Maize and Blue faithful. Hey....didn't somebody have a pic of a UM teaser of a tee shirt?