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By Adam Rittenberg ESPN.com Archive An Ohio State booster has accepted responsibility for the payments three Buckeyes players received at a charity event earlier this year. Robert "Bobby" DiGeronimo told The Columbus Dispatch that he played a key role in the $200 payments given to Jordan Hall, Travis Howard and Corey Brown. The payments took place at a Feb. 19 fundraiser for a charity run by DiGeronimo's son-in-law. Hall, Howard and Brown were suspended for Ohio State's first two games before being reinstated Tuesday by the NCAA. They are eligible to play Saturday against Miami. DiGeronimo told The Dispatch that former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor provided the money to his teammates, adding that the payments were reimbursement for travel expenses to the event. WHAT? where did PRYOR come into this? and 200 for EACH player? it doesn't cost 600 bucks to car pool to freaking youngstown or anywhere else in ohio for that matter...  "However Mr. Pryor got the money, I take responsibility," DiGeronimo told the newspaper. "I am responsible for those kids coming up here from Columbus. I handled it wrong. I should not have handled it the way I did." DiGeronimo, who cooperated with the NCAA during its investigation, said no one from the charity organization knew about the payments. Two other Ohio State players who attended the event said they didn't receive payments. Adam Rittenberg covers Big Ten football for ESPN.com. He can be reached at espnritt@gmail.comWhy are boosters still doing this? I hope osu lays a smack down on this guy and makes sure all ties are cut and he never gets any perks......we have enough boosters...screw this guy
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I think it is hilarious that Pryor ended up involved in this incident as well. Why did the booster throw him under the bus? Really? He couldn't have just said 'ex-player'?
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I think it is hilarious that Pryor ended up involved in this incident as well. Why did the booster throw him under the bus? Really? He couldn't have just said 'ex-player'?
Right......because that would have ended it right there and everyone...especially the media....would be satisfied and not try to dig any deeper. 
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I think it is hilarious that Pryor ended up involved in this incident as well. Why did the booster throw him under the bus? Really? He couldn't have just said 'ex-player'?
Right......because that would have ended it right there and everyone...especially the media....would be satisfied and not try to dig any deeper.
even if they do get the name, then it's not on him. it's common courtesy not to throw someone else under the bus when it was your actions that started the mess. and that is exactly what he did here.
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Why are boosters still doing this? I hope osu lays a smack down on this guy and makes sure all ties are cut and he never gets any perks......we have enough boosters...screw this guy
No university can have enough boosters, ever. They won't banish this guy. They still want his money.
This will be the common way college football works until we see four 16-team super conferences and then a secession from the NCAA. They can then start paying the players and this will all go away.
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WHAT? where did PRYOR come into this? and 200 for EACH player? it doesn't cost 600 bucks to car pool to freaking youngstown or anywhere else in ohio for that matter...
If you count gas and hotel rooms and food along the way, it could add up..
A decent hotel room is anywhere from $65 to $105 a night.. Gas is $3.50 a gallon.
it may not be as far off as you might think.. Still, 200 per seems just a little high..
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Colin Cowherd has what I think is a good idea. Make it a felony charge for boosters caught giving college athletes gifts.
Boosters aren't going to take chances on a felony charge. The ones that do should be made examples of. The culture will quickly change.
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A felony? Giving kids a few hundred bucks to go on a trip, order a pizza, or have a car is now a felony?
Tear down the whole system and treat them like they truly are.....college employees. Pay them.
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or, in the case of Boise State players, let the players sleep on couches because the dorms opened a few days later than practice started.
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Colin Cowherd has what I think is a good idea. Make it a felony charge for boosters caught giving college athletes gifts.
Boosters aren't going to take chances on a felony charge. The ones that do should be made examples of. The culture will quickly change.
So you want the federal government to get involved in regulating the rules of conduct of an athletic organization?
We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.
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Colin Cowherd has what I think is a good idea. Make it a felony charge for boosters caught giving college athletes gifts.
Boosters aren't going to take chances on a felony charge. The ones that do should be made examples of. The culture will quickly change.
I agree with him/you to the extent that this problem is never going to be fixed until such time as we find a way to punish the booster instead of just suspending the kid and firing the coach.. a felony is a bit much. I really don't want a congressional investigation and I don't want any new laws, this is something that the NCAA needs to figure out. (or just accept that it happens and that its an imperfect system, much like the BCS itself, and just live with it and investigate it as they find violations.)
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Colin Cowherd has what I think is a good idea. Make it a felony charge for boosters caught giving college athletes gifts.
Boosters aren't going to take chances on a felony charge. The ones that do should be made examples of. The culture will quickly change.
Cowherd is a moron....i heard a better suggestion from the 97.1 couple of days ago.....For example u know how OSU lost the sugar bowl money and had to return everything? well they can go after the party that paid the players and sue them....in this case it would be the owner of that tattoo place...the goal is not to recoupe the money(because come on now he doesn't have that) but to make their life miserable....
The guy would have to hire lawyers and be pretty damn broke....and if the person does have the money then good they recouped the money and moved on.....it's not going to completely stop ppl...but it will sure as hell make them thnink twice
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Colin Cowherd has what I think is a good idea. Make it a felony charge for boosters caught giving college athletes gifts.
Boosters aren't going to take chances on a felony charge. The ones that do should be made examples of. The culture will quickly change.
So you want the federal government to get involved in regulating the rules of conduct of an athletic organization?
While we're at it, let's make lying to people a felony. And being mean.
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