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Interesting. Ban him.

Aaron Brooks is either definitely a cheater or he's the dumbest person on the planet. Probably both. The amount of compliance training and dieticians they go through in college athletics telling them to know what they're putting in their bodies just for him to say he bought something tainted from a grocery store. What a complete moron. And Basch's response is a joke. I'm surprised he didn't make one of his intro to graphic design class graphics about it. Fkn goober.

Told y'all he was taking the year off to cycle some roids and gain weight. PED and Pedo State back at it!

Neither of them decided to mention how Cstar was assaulting teammates or bringing girls into the wrestling room. Basch said he won't speak on it. Terrible coverage. More complaining about people complaining that they suck at covering it bc they don't wanna lose access to PSU.

grown men don't tell the nation they were getting their butt fingered against their will just for the hell of it

good point by Dylan here regarding the smoke

I agree that it depends on the type of photo and how cael interpreted it. did it show the shaft and testicles, or perhaps just the shaft, or maybe it was him bent over from behind and all you could see is the testicles from that angle. or a silhouette depending on the lighting. it all depends on what cael thought of the photo at the time. a less flattering photo is more likely to be reported. if it was flattering in cael's eyes, he probably didn't see it as disrespectful or need to be reported. but i agree he should not be fired for reviewing the photo.

i would prefer cael be fired from PSU. this would give the buckeyes a chance to hire him in a couple years when Tom Ryan wants to retire. I think he just needs some space from the toxicity of psu for the moment and he'll come back better.

Following the Kyle Snyder thing and the "Surviving Ohio State" doc on Hbo, this is like icing on the cake. Wrestling is gonna have a horrible reputation... Especially when all the defenders start saying that getting your ass fingered and d*ck grabbed in practice is normal wrestling, or snapping naked pics of your teammates to send to the group chat is just good ole fun. Are we having fun yet?

Lol exactly, the backbone of this whole argument is based on shoddy data in that study... I'm annoyed at how much of my time was wasted looking at that thing.

i can tell you there certainly wasn't any discrimination or racial favoritism going on in that spreadsheet, and every other top d1 football program can likely say the same. that's probably by far the highest percentage of the NIL numbers out there, and the paper you linked literally only had 7 total football players. so I don't really trust your paper or your articles in the grand scheme of things. the data set sucks and is actually misrepresenting what the full story actually is.

to be fair... he did say "say more publicly". Props to Beau for not trying to be a tough guy dumbass tho.

absolutely nothing is going to happen to the coaching staff... guaranteed. even willie said this is p*ssy sh*t and if he was in beau's shoes, he would've handled starocci himself. ended all that on the spot.

It's not extremely common. Wrestlers do it and that's about it, until other athletes start doing it and it snowballs. It's not a good trend either, delaying your kids start of school because you want them to be more mature than the others. The remainder have the choice of also hindering their starts or being behind the increasingly higher number of kids doing this for an athletic or developmental advantage. I mentioned this to my colleagues here in Ohio, and they were dumbfounded that it's normal practice for wrestlers. One of them recalled that their state champion classmate was held back after I said it, and that it was a secret to everyone in the grade. One mentioned his kids team getting walloped by a team of handpicked older kids ruining the league for everyone. I'd personally be embarrassed being a 19 year old senior year. What the hell are they doing in high school still? Move on to college and stop playing with the kiddies.

Agreed. That's a pretty damning statement by Bo that could dissuade recruits for years. Many probably now believe Iowa isn't a good place for christians, aspiring Olympic champs, good people, etc solely because of his decommitment statement. Uncle Chael did go over the top but that's his shtick. He's not totally wrong imo tho.

Wasn't Carter Starocci the self proclaimed highed paid wrestler? Not saying it isn't true, but where's the evidence that there's some sort of racism at play with the NIL deals? Anecdotally, my buddy worked at Ohio State's collective, and I got a peak at the football spreadsheet. It was absurd with the numbers listed, but didn't look to be any discrimination going on with the names I saw.

I certainly understand why Jordan (or his PR team) thought it was the right move to deny knowing anything when the first story came out as the media could easily make him a scapegoat and try to destroy his political career. Jordan didn't do anything more or less than anyone else at the time it seems. The part for me that makes him a POS is bailing on his wrestlers, making phone calls to get others to denounce their claims, convincing Hellickson to renege on helping them get justice and zip his lip somehow, etc. They turned their back on the guys they were meant to defend through thick and thin to save face for his personal political aspirations.

Willie didn't mention the # of days requirement, the 250 miles, the jealousy portion, or give the level of detail this post has. Thanks for sharing @Interviewed_at_Weehawken

He also did it under the guise of medical treatment. He didn't just jack people off and get away with it. He'd gauge the victim and slowly progress to what he thought he could get away with. The dude was smart, a leading researcher in multiple fields. Got his education from Penn, University of Chicago, and Harvard. Multiple victims said as they were about to say something to him, he'd chime in with a rebuttal. He claimed he had to check their lymph nodes in their groin for infection. Had to check their testicles I'm guessing for masses. Had to get them naked to see their skeletal structure and check their gait. Told them "you're like a thoroughbred horse, we need to make sure you're running on all cylinders and check everything". A lot of them didn't realize they were getting abused until they found out that 1. What he was doing was not medical treatment or valid and 2. After the Michigan state scandal became public. A lot of the people that complained were convinced later that is wasn't abuse. He tried to get the doctor who finally got him fired's medical license revoked. He had lawyers threaten kids who reported him. There's countless reasons. Unfortunately, you would've gotten kicked out of the school, arrested, and probably blacklisted from wrestling for being the macho man had you been in that situation.

I recommend everyone watch this. Super messed up. It starts off as a kind of joke of hey this weird old guy fondles our balls too much when checking us out, well that was weird and creepy, and progresses in to literal drugging and rapes. Thousands of victims. I hate to say it, but I can easily see how this went down considering the time period. Coaches tell the athletes to suck it up, focus on wrestling, not worth getting the Ohio State brass involved. Instead Hellickson told the doc to knock it off and that's it. Coaches didn't realize the trauma it inflicted on some of these guys, and instead of admitting they knew it was happening, they said they were clueless and dug a hole they can't get out of. For Jordan to tell the truth now would be an admittance of being a liar and admitting they didn't give a *I poop my pants, don't laugh at me* back in the day. Not to mention that Strauss was the roid doctor for the University, punishing him meant risk of exposing the PED use. So messed up.

Just watched it and oof that was a tough one, especially being a buckeye myself. After making this post, I ended up reading into the allegations and noticed Strauss had a lot of publications on steroids and PEDs. I wondered if that played a role, and it seems it did. I bet every university had a similar roid guy back then cuz dudes were freaking jacked. Look at Coleman and Kevin Randleman, for one. It was particularly sad watching how Russ Hellickson and Jim Jordan went from family to these guys and role models to straight up turning their backs on them. That was pretty heartbreaking. I'm impressed with the whistleblower in 95. I can't believe their response to somebody being sexually assaulted is "hey how about you come in tomorrow, and you, the doctor who assaulted you, and I can talk it over". That's a no from me dog. He handled it like a champ and, had the doctor's boss not straight up lied to him about complaints, would've sued em.

Just call them trans women. Simple as that, no need to be asses about it by grouping them as men. It also over simplifies the issue as no straight up men will be tolerated moving forward, the only ones causing issues in sports are the complicated fringe cases. There's a geniune argument to allow trans women who transitioned prior to completing puberty to compete in women's divisions without any restrictions, for instance.

What about Oscar Pistorius? With those spring loaded legs he was able to excel at sprinting as well as murdering.

Pyles seems to be a dude who will maybe have one beer before cutting himself off. We know Willie slams those bud heavies, so I respect him for that. I think if Willie can get him in the first minute he's got it, otherwise he taps out second period.