Terrelle Pryor Suspended Due To Following Reasons

NCAA, he can send all press releases he wants. She can play the unclear regulations. It can send its new chief authorities on the "outreach" tour, as it was earlier this month when the newly appointed vice president of Julie Roe Lach visited several media outlets.

None of this will change the perception - working on, Ohio State suspensions on Thursday - an organization that make up the rules on the fly.

You have every reason to be puzzled as to why the five Ohio State players - especially stars, Terrelle Pryor, Dan Herron and Devier Posey - will be suspended during the first five games next season for the sale of various rings, awards and apparel, but will be allowed to play in the Jan. 4 Sugar Bowl against Arkansas.

If you're a fan of Ohio State, you have every reason to be confused about why the former star Troy Smith was suspended by the 2004 Alamo Bowl for $ 500 from the steering wheel while the above five will suit up despite the pocket of $ 1000 to $ 2500 from some other nefarious figures.

If you're a fan of Georgia, you have every reason to be miffed, that the receiver AJ Green had to sit the first four games this season for a similar transgression (selling game worn jersey), and the offending Buckeyes had sold some of his stuff more than a year ago has never missed a game.

And if you just general college football fan, you have every reason to be confusion, anger and even despondent that NCAA came down harder on the Ohio State players for sale ring than it was on the Heisman winner Cam Newton, whose father bought Newton's signature for $ 180000.

Just nine days after the New Year, this mess at Ohio State marks the latest chapter in an unusually busy year for the division of NCAA's. Of the USC / Reggie Bush sanctions North Carolina agent suspensions with Bruce Peel, Tom Izzo, and Newton, headlines have been endless.

To a large extent layered bureaucracy NCAA, however, different groups of personnel handle violations of the cases (USC, Tennessee basketball), the agent questions (Georgia, UNC), basketball focus groups (Izzo) and the restoration of an athlete the right (Newton, Ohio).

Not surprisingly, the rules and punishments seem so wildly inconsistent.

You can read the full version here, but in a nutshell, it's like NCAA arrived at the punishment he did for the Ohio Players State:

• The rules clearly state that a player should be suspended, "a four-game, or 30 percent of the season, to get the level of benefits Pryor and K °.
• NCAA added a fifth game, because the "student-athletes did not immediately disclose the irregularities in the presentation of an appropriate education rules, which, in the school, took place in November 2009.
• The date, however, was also key in justifying why the players did not miss a bowl. AD Gene Smith claims the school is not so obvious with our student-athlete's education, as we had in 2007-08 and 2008-09 school years, in connection with the sale of clothing, gifts and awards issued by the department of athletics. " Translation: The players did not know that they break the rules, they broke them. (Suspend disbelief from now.)
• Because of this, the NCAA broke language almost no one (including, by his own admission, Smith) have ever heard: "NCAA policies allow [recovery] penalty for the championship game or a bowl if it was reasonable at the time of the student -athletes did not know they commit violations. "