By Pat Brennan via TheLantern.com -- Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith and football coach Urban Meyer both committed NCAA violations in the last year, and they were not alone. Violations by Smith and Meyer accounted for two of 46 violations that the athletic department self-reported to the NCAA since May 30, 2011. OSU released documents last week detailing the violations that have occurred since the day former Buckeyes football coach Jim Tressel was forced to resign from his job. The violations were attributed to...... READ ... Read More

From WaitingForNextYear.com -- Before he’d ever taken a snap as a college quarterback, Terrelle Pryor received a standing ovation on a brilliantly sunny day against Youngstown State in Ohio State’s cakewalk of an opener in 2008. Months before that, Sports Illustrated called his college decision “the most anticipated signing day announcement in history.” Talk about hype. A look at just the numbers suggests he lived up to the most of it. Key word: most. From 2008-20010, Pryor helped guide the Buckeyes to a share of....... READ ... Read More

By Brian Bennett via ESPN.com --  Terrelle Pryor is trying to put his past behind him and become a successful NFL quarterback. But he's not finished talking about what happened at Ohio State. In an interview with SI.com's Jim Trotter, the disgraced former Buckeyes star and current Oakland Raider offered a new perspective on why he sold his memorabilia for cash and favors, which eventually helped lead to the downfall of coach Jim Tressel and NCAA problems for the program. Pryor was suspended for the ... Read More

By Chris Fedor via sportsradiointerviews.com --   It was just about a year ago when Jim Tressel announced his resignation at Ohio State after a scandal that not only rocked OSU but put a black mark on the program. After getting a five-year show-cause penalty, Tressel latched on with the Indianapolis Colts as an extra set of eyes in the organization. After dabbling in the NFL a bit, Tressel has returned to the college ranks. Not on the sidelines though. Instead, Tressel has ... Read More

By Adam Rittenberg via ESPN.com -- COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Recent history shows no college football program is immune from an extended slump. The mighty have fallen in unprecedented numbers, and last summer, Ohio State appeared doomed to be the next to serve its sentence in the shadows. The previously bulletproof Buckeyes stared down the barrel of NCAA investigators, who were dissecting a series of violations committed by players and, the most egregious, a cover-up committed by former coach Jim Tressel. The man some ... Read More

By Greg Billing via daytondailynews.com -- I was as thrilled as most Ohio State fans when Urban Meyer was hired to replace Jim Tressel as the Buckeyes football coach. And I’m just as excited to see Wayne High School grad Braxton Miller running Meyer’s points-aplenty spread offense, just imagining the damage it can do to that team up north in November. But despite all my enthusiasm for the hire and my optimism for opening up the Ohio State playbook beyond the conservative chapter, I ... Read More

By Doug Lesmerises via The Plain Dealer --  In a Sporting News story published Monday on Ohio State coach Urban Meyer's tenure at Florida, the program Meyer left winds up sounding a lot like the program he inherited. And none of that should be of particular surprise. The only problem is for anyone viewing Meyer above or below the spectrum of successful major college football coaches, for good or bad. He's no more a saint or a sinner than most two-time national championship ... Read More

By: Matt Hayes via sportingnews.com --  The uproar and controversy of Urban Meyer’s stunning recruiting coup at Ohio  State settled in and Stefon Diggs, still on the Buckeyes' wish list, was  debating his future. Diggs, the second-highest rated wide receiver in the country, had  narrowed his list of potential schools to Maryland, Florida and Ohio State. For  more than a week following National Signing Day on Feb. 1, and before Diggs  eventually signed with Maryland, Meyer relentlessly pursued Diggs. Multiple sources told Sporting News ... Read More

By Tim Bielik via bleacherreport.com --  Ohio State's 2012 season will be limited to just the 12 games in the regular season regardless of record due to the NCAA sanctions levied against the program. Luckily, they have finally killed the negative momentum that had hampered the team since their (vacated) Sugar Bowl win over Arkansas, leading to Jim Tressel's forced resignation, Terrelle Pryor's departure, the worst season since the 19th century and the aforementioned postseason ban. Urban Meyer and his new coaching staff combined ... Read More

By: AP via washingtonpost.com --  NEW ORLEANS — Shortly after Ohio State’s season ended with a loss to Kansas at the Final Four late Saturday night, point guard Aaron Craft was asked if he will be coming back next season. “Pfft! Of course. I love Ohio State,” he said with a grin. OK, so the Buckeyes are set at the point. Forward? They might not know that for a week or two. Ohio State shook off a late-season funk to make an unexpected run to the ... Read More