The three dumbest suspensions in Ohio State Football history
By Ryan Stano
5 players from the Ohio State football team were suspended for selling things for tattoos.
Tattoo-gate is the dumbest scandal in the history of Ohio State football and one of the dumbest ones in all of college football. For those of you that don’t remember, five Buckeyes were suspended for selling their gold pants that they get for beating TTUN and championship rings in exchange for tattoos.
Terrelle Pryor, DeVier Posey, Mike Adams, Solomon Thomas, and Dan Herron were all suspended because of this. They were all suspended for five games of the 2011 season, yet they were allowed to play in the Sugar Bowl at the end of the 2010 season.
Pryor decided to go to the NFL through the supplemental draft. He was then suspended for 5 games by the NFL to uphold the suspension he tried to skirt in Columbus. It was the stupidest suspension in Ohio State history, and the players want their records back.
First of all, it was dumb at the time. They sold things that they earned and that were their property in exchange for these services. There were no impermissible benefits because they actually paid for all of the tattoos using the money they got from these items.
The suspension is even dumber now in the era of NIL. This would never have happened if the NIL rules were legal back then. Instead, the NCAA just hurt the reputation of five players that will follow them forever. They are forever known as “the tattoo five”.
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Do you agree with my list? Can you think of any worse suspensions than these three? Let me know!