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Why are the Buckeyes in the news every, single, day? Positive or negative ... it's just getting annoying.

He still hasn't learned

Didn't Raiders take another Q.B. this draft?

No, the Raiders did not have a draft.

In all seriousness, no, they did not take a QB in the draft. But they did recently sign Matt Leinart to compete with TP for the backup QB job behind C.Palmer.

Now I'm 'Nervous Nellie'....

"The reason why I did it was to pay my mother's gas bill and some of her rent. She was four months behind in rent, and the [landlord] was so nice because he was an Ohio State fan. He gave her the benefit of the doubt......"

I think it was a great interview and I'll be rooting for him to succeed.

I still feel the same way now as I did then after reading that.

What Terrelle did was stupid, but so is the rule that punished him. TP was stupid for breaking a well known rule, but the rule is stupid just as equally because an athlete should be allowed to sell and barter WHATEVER they want if its their property so long as they are selling or buying something that is NOT illegal like drugs or prostitutes or etc...

The problem is the NCAA has rules in place that stop everyone INCLUDING the players from making one dime off of what they constantly market as "THEIR product"; That being the NCAA Football goldmine.

So, I look at it like whatever, it happened its over. The NCAA is the big brother of college athletes all across the U.S. and while I don't support players being paid for playing I do support the removal of rules that stop players from recieving special treatment and financial benefits because of their stardom.

An NCAA athlete is NO DIFFERENT than a Pro athlete, they both generate income for their organizations, they both do press conferences, they both generate buzz, they both are highly marketable, and they both get micro-analyzed for everything they do by the media; THE ONLY DIFFERENCE is that Pro athletes get a slice of the special treatment and financial benefits they generate whereas NCAA athletes don't.

I agree with your position on the NCAA and their hypocrisy....to a point.

However, I have a hard time saying that the players don't make 'a dime.' Don't they get a free education? Living expenses? Per diem?

True point on that, however the free education is because of a full ride scholarships that even some non-athletes get attending college anywhere so I can't back you on that. Living expenses are a bare bare baaaaare amount designed to give you the bare minimum of life's expenses.

Overall there's nothing real that a college athlete IS ALLOWED(via the NCAA) to receive that non-athletes(Ungoverned by the NCAA) at colleges everywhere don't get just the same, except for maybe the pittance of money they get when they're on the road; and again that money is designed to get you the bare minimum and nothing more.

College athletes don't get any cut of the income that the NCAA get's from the performance of college athletes and I'm fine with that as mentioned. However, as the NCAA body don't sit there and tell me as a student-athlete that not only will you not give me a cut of the money you make off of me but also tell me that I can't receive special treatment or receive cash/gifts from people because I am a well-known to famous sports star. That's highway robbery.