Ohio State has released information regarding 12 secondary NCAA issues being processed by the athletic department’s compliance office. The release contained information that contradicted previous statements from the athletic department, and some OSU students don’t hold athletic director Gene Smith responsible for the pending violations either.
Wallenberg did confirm that the additional violations are being “processed,” although he said he did not “know the status of each situation” in regards to whether it was being processed by the university or the NCAA."
You would think after all that has happened, that Smith would be a little bit smarter in how he presented these types of situations.
“We’ve got 12 pending,” Smith said. “It may turn out to be secondary. It may not.”
Smith clarified in a Thursday morning phone call that the potential violations would either be secondary or nothing at all."
Now with all that, Gene Smith has tried to back track on what he has said following the amount of criticism coming from all directions of any Ohio State-related website, paper or blog.
"Contrary to reports attributed to me, Ohio State Athletics is not facing any major NCAA violations," Smith said. "There are several secondary violations being processed by our compliance office. These are similar to those released last week. Again, these are secondary in nature and consistent with our culture of self-reporting even the most minor and inadvertent violations.
"Again, to be clear, the Ohio State football program, its coaches and staff are not facing any [major] violations."
Big ups to Eleven Warriors for catching a statement that you might have missed.
