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DAN HOPE Oller reporter hope.46@osu.edu The outlook for the Ohio State football program is positive heading into Saturday’s LiFESports Spring Game. Entering his second season at the helm of the program, coach Urban Meyer has yet to lose a football game, and, with the team’s postseason ban from last season no longer in place, the Buckeyes are expected by many to be national championship contenders coming off a 12-0 season. However, the future of OSU football didn’t look so bright on May 30, 2011, when Jim Tressel, who compiled a 106-22 record over 10 years as OSU’s coach and led the Buckeyes to a national championship in his second season at the school, resigned as coach. Tressel’s resignation came following an improper
benefits scandal that gained national publicity, and has since been dubbed as “Tattoo-Gate.” “Unfortunately we needed to move on, but obviously you would not have created the end of our tenure there the way that it happened,” Tressel told The Lantern in an exclusive interview Friday. On Dec. 23, 2010, the NCAA suspended quarterback Terrelle Pryor, running back Dan Herron, receiver DeVier Posey, offensive tackle Mike Adams and defensive end Solomon Thomas — all of whom played for the Buckeyes at the time — for the first five games of the 2011 season for selling memorabilia and receiving improper benefits from Eddie Rife, owner of Fine Line Ink tattoo parlor. Linebacker Jordan Whiting also received a one-game ban. Tressel was initially suspended for two games by OSU on March 8, 2011 and fined $250,000 for failing to report the violations committed by his players. His suspension was increased to five games nine days later, but his fine was waived following his resignation.
It got worse for OSU. On Dec. 19, 2011, the NCAA sanctioned the OSU football program with a one-year postseason ban, which kept the team out of the Big Ten Championship Game and a bowl game last season, and a nine-year scholarship reduction over three years. Those sanctions came just three weeks following Meyer’s hiring as coach on Nov. 28, 2011. Although it might have ultimately cost Tressel his coaching career — he also received a five-year show-cause penalty in the NCAA’s sanctions, which would result in penalties for any NCAA school that hires him as coach within that time window — he did not express regret for failing to report his players’ violations. “If my fault is on the loyalty side, I’ll take it,” Tressel said.
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Ohio Residents-15, 564 Nonresidents-19,874 To gain more out-of-state applicants OSU has invested in Texas, Florida and California. KAYLA ZAMARY / Design Editor Source: reporting JACKIE STORER / Managing editor of design
The university built an enrollment plan three years ago, studying the demographics in Ohio, the Midwest and across the country. Evanovich said that in Ohio, the number of high school graduates has been decreasing over the past three years. The state is losing 2 to 3 percent of high school graduates every year. He said “the same picture is very true in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois.” The solution was to make investments in states, such as Florida, Texas and California, that had “double-digits growths in high school graduates,” Evanovich said. The university already has recruiters placed in Los Angeles, Dallas and Atlanta. “What we really want to do is keep the best Ohio kids here and create a brain gain of really smart students from across the country and now across
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Distance to deter some from Spring Game MJ DORONY Lantern reporter dorony.4@osu.edu
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There have been more out-of-state applicants to Ohio State than in-state applicants for the first time in school history. However, vice president for strategic enrollment planning, Dolan Evanovich, said it’s part of the university’s strategic plan. “Ten years ago, we had less than 20,000 applications and this year we are just over 35,400 applications and more of those applications are from out-ofstate nonresidents in the first time in the history of the university,” he said. Out-of-state students made up about 19,900 and in-state students made up about 15,500 of the roughly 35,400 applications received.
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The Spring Game offers football fans another day to spend in Ohio Stadium, but students aren’t getting the chance this year as the Buckeyes plan to travel to Cincinnati for the game. Ohio State is set to play in Paul Brown Stadium this Saturday, home to the Cincinnati Bengals. The stadium fits about 65,535 attendees; however, Spring Game attendance in 2012 was about 81,100. While traditionally a large number of fans come to watch the team scrimmage, Paul Brown Stadium might not be filled if some students are unwilling to make the approximately two-hour drive from Columbus. Alex Highley, a fifth-year in political science, said he hasn’t even thought about making the trip to what he called a “glorified practice” in Cincinnati and is disappointed he can’t head to the Horseshoe one last time before graduating. “I went the last two years. I’m pretty disappointed; I was never planning on going to Cincinnati just for the Spring Game,” Highley said. Highley said many fans go to the game because it’s merely something different to do in the spring. “The best part about the Spring Game is it’s in Columbus. It’s more
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OSU football coach Urban Meyer runs onto the field with players during the 2012 Spring Game. The Buckeyes are scheuled to play April 13 in Cincinnati.
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