Honest Opinion - Chase Young

My first thought when I heard about this, given the sociopolitical overtones and the current national climate surrounding ethics and college sports was, frankly...

...fuck Ohio State

Wut?

You sound about as unsure about yourself and feelings as my ex wife.

Follow the mother fucking rules. No matter how unfair they are. 

There are only like 20 other ways to arrange for parents to go to a game without money actually changing hands.  

screw him still.

Michigan football got raked across the coals for getting countable practice hours wrong.  I'll shed no tears for OSU losing a player due to something that violates the rules, even if what he did is morally fine and legally going to be okay in the near future.

What a coincidence! I was just thinking that we needed a third thread about this.

If it’s a loan and agains the rules, he should be ineligible.  He won’t miss the Michigan game!  We already know it unless this welcomes the NCAA in and they find more.  It wont, they won’t, 

He is going to get his money, and the NCAA is making money off of him right now. I really think the whole situation is overblown and I do really not care personally if he is suspended at all. It's not like their back up, whoever it is, isnt a 4-5 star monster waiting in the wings. 

He got money from an agent, paid it back once he was going to get found out... 

Don't ever take anything that's said by anyone affiliated with that institution as anything but 90% horse shit.

The 10% that's truthful includes comments like "we ain't come to play school".

The loan was from an AGENT. Save us from the evil corporation bullshit. It’s against the fucking rules. 

This is a bunk situation. Here we have a guy who will be inking a $40M deal in less than a year having to borrow a few bucks to get his family to a game. He pays back the loan and now he is forced to sit out at least a game, perhaps more. 
 

I don’t care that he plays for our mortal enemies. He plays a big role in making OSU money and honestly, stars like him make the Big Ten money so by extension we all profit from his presence on the field. 
 

The NCAA sucks and I hope they make this “infraction” a thing of the past. 

Thanks

I'm just going to assume that neither you, nor I, nor probably anyone on this board know what really happened.  Was it a loan?  Was it a gift?  Was a booster paying him because that's what boosters at OSU do?...no idea.  I won't pass judgement on it.  We all know the NCAA sucks and takes advantage of these guys.  What I will do is be happy if this in any way makes OSU worse, makes them lose a game, or helps UM in their game against them.  All I care about is UM beating OSU and OSU not getting into the playoffs.

From an agent/friend he met in columbus immediately after moving there.  OSU will make this about Chase Young because people will be sympathetic towards him.  However, this looks like it is booster organized and likely involves more than just him. JK Dobbins has been ghost on twitter since the same time Chase Young has.

screw the NCAA? Right there with you on that sentiment.

However.

Chase Young has had an agent - an AGENT - since he was a freshman!  OSU football is a pre NFL machine.  I doubt he's the only one!  Dobbins.  Oh and test for steroids too.

The fact pattern in Young's tweet is designed to put a good face on things, so OSU fans can say OH GEEZ a guy can't even get a cheeseburger without..... yada yada yada.  Yes, the timeline makes it clear that the family friend is an agent, so if this is the best they could come up with?? Look, I have no problem with the isolated fact of payments, or that Young's family probably didn't want for anything during his OSU career.  I do have a problem with this being one of the limited fact patterns that crosses over a hard line which is that college players can't work with professional agents without losing their amateur status.  The NCAA doesn't do much but that is a line they respect and that many schools at least make an effort to appear they respect.  OSU flouts this line almost openly because they want to be Alabama who has a state structure to support their levels of cheating. OSU is also still stinging from being destroyed by Clemson, because in today's CFB world you can't lose a game without the world ending, apparently.

 Change the rules.  Until then, if our players can't have agents, they can't have agents.

You sound like my son.

Rules are rules.  Yeah, sometimes they are a little unreasonable but they are meant to keep a fair playing field.

A mistake was made, own up to it, learn from it and move on.  It seems Chase is doing just that. Good for him but still...Fuck OSU.

OK, despite the fact your post sounds like a semi-coherent rant, I'll bite.

The obvious end result of all this will be that the highly-ethical people who run Ohio State will "investigate" this "alleged" violation for a couple weeks.  They will sit Young for two meaningless games.  Then amazingly they'll announce that their "thorough investigation has revealed that there has been no violation of NCAA rules and that he is immediately eligible" - right before their two big games to end the season.  And the NCAA will sign off on this farce because that's what they do with the big programs that generate the big bucks for them.  

You could have read the same thing in the previous threads on this, but I thought I'd add it to this thread.

Well they’re dumb rules but they’re the rules at this point in time and I don’t feel bad for people getting caught breaking rules (even dumb ones).