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sports 2A Banding together With a bowl ban looming for the 2012 season, some OSU football seniors said they are playing for each other. [ a+e ]
$7,793,757.13 The cost of a scandal
source: reporting CHRISTOPHER BRAUN / Lantern designer CHRIS POCHE / Design editor
Urban Hire
Salary
Jim Tressel
Urban Meyer
Per year
$3,777,000
$4,000,000
4 year total $11,331,000 $12,450,000*
*Meyer earns a $450,000 retainer bonus after his second year
$1,119,000
NCAA investigation consulting
The Compliance Group
Cost for hire $282,840.27
Kekst and Company
$617,415.92
FTI Consulting, Inc.
$507,927.88
$1,408,184.07
New Staff
Jim Tressel Urban Meyer
Assistant staff 10
12
$1,262,881 Difference, per year, in total staff salaries
$3,788,643 Compliance revamp
Cost for hire
Protiviti $226,950
Dewey and LeBoeuf $280,000
$506,950
Attorney costs for players
Vorys, Sater,
Crabbe, Brown
Seymour & Pease & James
Cost for hire $29,499.85
$201,480.21
$230,990.06 Sugar Bowl and future bowl vacated
Sugar Bowl
Potential earnings lost
$388,811
Future Big 10 bowl $350,000
$740,000** **Denotes money not earned, rather than spent.
‘Tattoo-5’ scandal costs OSU almost $8M
THOMAS BRADLEY Campus editor bradley.321@osu.edu I was just like every other sports journalist in Columbus last year. Standing outside the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, home of the Ohio State Football team, looking for stories, evidence and quotes. About this time last year, Jim Tressel had just been forced out of his head coaching position, Luke Fickell was being introduced as interim coach
and photographers and piles of public records requests were trying to gure out the legitimacy of former quarterback Terrelle Pryor’s car. I wrote about the emails, I wrote about the cars, I reported about the “deals” Ray Small claimed to get, I wrote about the cover-up and I wrote about the seriousness of the situation: about the black eye that will cost the Athletic Department for years to come. But then I got to thinking, everyone understands what the cost of this “Tattoo-5” scandal had on the reputation of the university. I stood on the sidelines of every away game last season and heard fans from other teams yell things about tattoos, cars and
one fan not-so-politely asked me where Pryor was. I watched ESPN constantly update its sidebar with more mistakes at OSU. The reputation has made a recovery. With coach Urban Meyer at the wheel and all the players involved in the NCAA investigation either graduated, drafted or departed from the university, the OSU football program is returning to normalcy. But I got to thinking. These ve players received tattoos, money, deals on cars and maybe a free meal from time to time. A small amount of money that continued as OSU on 3A
2 football players suspended after arrests
2B Talk of the town Gregg Gillis, an experimental electronic musician, is scheduled to perform at 7 p.m. Friday at the LC. campus The Lantern business sees 2A change weather high 48 low 55 partly cloudy T 73/56 mostly sunny W 73/54 partly cloudy TH 77/55 mostly sunny F 80/61 partly cloudy www.weather.com
PATRICK MAKS AND THOMAS BRADLEY Senior Lantern reporter and Campus editor maks.1@osu.edu and bradley.321@osu.edu Ohio State redshirt senior Jake Stoneburner and redshirt junior Jack Mewhort have been suspended from the football team until recent legal issues are resolved. Stoneburner and Mewhort were arrested early Saturday morning for allegedly urinating in public and running from police. Mark Collins, a Columbus-based attorney, said the football players learned of their suspension Sunday, and would be barred from the Woody Hayes Athletic Center until their case is resolved. “I’m going to try to work the next week or so to resolve this to everyone’s satisfaction to get these two
young men, get this taken care of and get them moving forward and get them back on the team hopefully,” Collins told The Lantern. The two are scheduled to appear in Delaware Municipal Court June 11. Representatives from the Department of Athletics, including coach Urban Meyer, did not immediately respond Sunday night to The Lantern’s request for comment regarding the suspensions. Shawnee Hills Police arrested Stoneburner and Mewhort for “obstructing of cial business” at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday by the Bogey Inn near Dublin, Ohio. Multiple attempts to contact the Shawnee Hills Police were unsuccessful. Police said they spotted Stoneburner, Mewhort and a third person, Austin Barnard, urinating in between buildings. When they attempted to confront the three individuals, police said they ran away.
JACK MEWHORT Although Barnard is unaf liated with the OSU football program, he is a business student at OSU. Two of the suspects were found trying to hide in between vehicles in a parking lot being used for this past weekend’s Memorial Tournament. The third person ed into the woods, but was ultimately caught by police after threatening to use a police dog. Adam Widman, assistant director of
JAKE STONEBURNER communications for the Department of Athletics, on Saturday said Stoneburner’s arrest was being investigated. Widman did not respond to The Lantern’s request for comment regarding Mewhort’s arrest. Obstructing of cial business is de ned by Ohio Revised Code 2921.31 as “No person, without continued as Football on 3A
OSU students, faculty unsure about pending $483M parking lease
THOMAS BRADLEY AND SARAH STEMEN Campus editor and Oller reporter bradley.321@osu.edu and stemen.66@osu. edu
Ohio State of cials announced the highest bid for leasing university parking assets to an outside rm as $483 million, and many students and faculty are still unsure on the possible deal. The school began looking to privatize parking assets about a year ago, and is planning to make a decision whether to go forward with the plan sometime soon. Joseph Alutto, OSU’s executive vice president and provost, said he was not surprised the Friday bid was $108 million more than the basement price set for bids at $375 million. “I’m not surprised by the fact that it came in much higher,” Alutto said. “The overall number is high, which gives us the exibility to invest in the quality of the institution.” Alutto stressed this was not a “done deal,” and there are still several stages to go through before making a recommendation to the Board of Trustees.
THOMAS BRADLEY / Campus editor The highest bid for the parking assets of the university is $483 million. If recommended to the Board and then passed, the private company, which has yet to be named, will take over operations continued as Parking on 3A
Armed robbery victims feel unprotected KRISTEN MITCHELL Senior Lantern reporter mitchell.935@osu.edu “You better start running if you don’t want to be killed.” That’s what an unidenti ed man with a handgun told Kim Klumb, a fth-year in nursing, after he took her cellphone and cash last week on Chittenden Avenue. Klumb and her roommate were walking home from Kildare’s Irish Pub in the South Campus Gateway at about 2 a.m. Thursday with a group of friends before turning on Chittenden Avenue to visit a friend who lives on Indianola Avenue before turning in for the night. Arriving at their friend’s apartment, they found he was not home and turned to leave when a man passed them on the stairs outside the building. As they passed him, he turned around and began following them down the stairs. Klumb said he followed them, and cornered them against a wall of 100 Chittenden Ave. as he pulled out a handgun and aimed it at Leslie Ferch, a fourth-year in nursing. He took both of their cellphones. After threatening to rape and kill them, he sent them walking down the street. Ferch rst, then Klumb. The man was later described in a public safety notice emailed from the university as “a black male, 19 to 20 years of age, with a baby face, 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 6 inches, 140 pounds, wearing black pants, blue and white plaid shirt underneath a gray hoodie, a black baseball cap (turned around backwards). The suspect hair style was in dreadlocks/dreads.” continued as Robbery on 3A
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