After the Ohio State’s football program was hit with a one-year bowl ban, probation and other penalties by the NCAA after the 2012 season, you’d think the Buckeyes would do whatever it took to stay out of the headlines. Unfortunately for new head coach Urban Meyer that hasn’t happened.
Ohio State has committed 46 secondary violations in 21 sports since last June according to a report in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer. The school’s football program committed nine of those violations, but none of them were actually troubling.
In fact, some of the infractions are downright silly. One involved assistant coach Mike Vrabel chewing smokeless tobacco on the sidelines during games last season, and another came from new head coach Urban Meyer texting “good luck” to recruit Noah Spence at a game in December.
Again, these were minor, insignificant violations that will barely raise the NCAA’s eyebrows.
The problem for Ohio State is that any time it gets mentioned in connection with an…
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