Ohio State Football NCAA Consequences: The Option You’ve Never Considered

When listening to Columbus’ 97.1 The Fan on the radio, the show hosts broached an interesting solution to the Buckeyes’ impending NCAA violation consequences:
Community service.
These two words, mostly associated with boy scouts and convicted criminals, could provide the win-win situation that Ohio State needs.
To begin, community service could be completed two different ways: The football team could perform a valuable service, or the school could donate all profits from an event (say, a bowl game) to a deserving charity.
The first option, performing a service, seems the most obvious. The team is not being “punished,” rather, it is rewarding others with goodwill. This could range from volunteering at a pee-wee football camp to helping at a local shelter.
Under coach Jim Tressel, football…
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