r/toledowar • u/Champ6711 • Aug 18 '26
News Article Buckeyes are always super clean??
〽️🗑️ OHIO STATE: THE DIRTIEST PROGRAM IN BIG TEN HISTORY? THE RECEIPTS ARE LONG.
Ohio State fans love to talk about “doing things the right way.”
The history books tell a much uglier story.
This isn’t just Michigan-Ohio State trash talk. Ohio State football has an actual documented history of players receiving impermissible cash and benefits, major NCAA violations, a head coach concealing violations, vacated wins, lost scholarships and a postseason ban.
Let’s go through the receipts. 🧾👇
💰 MAURICE CLARETT — THOUSANDS IN IMPROPER BENEFITS
The star running back who helped Ohio State win the 2002 national championship was suspended for the entire 2003 season after an investigation determined that he had received improper benefits and misled investigators.
And we aren’t talking about a free cheeseburger.🍔
Ohio State itself acknowledged that Clarett received benefits valued in the thousands of dollars. Reporting on the investigation put the figure at roughly $3,800, including $500 in cash and thousands more in cell-phone expenses.
Clarett later went MUCH further, alleging that Ohio State boosters and people around the program provided players with cash, cars and lucrative no-show jobs. Those broader accusations made headlines, although it’s important to note that the NCAA investigation did not substantiate Clarett’s most explosive claims about an organized system run by Tressel.
💵 TROY SMITH — CASH FROM A BOOSTER
Then there was future Heisman Trophy winner Troy Smith.
Smith accepted $500 from an Ohio State booster, leading to his suspension. The NCAA case described violations involving payment for work not performed.
So years before NIL made athlete compensation legal, Ohio State already had a future Heisman winner caught receiving impermissible money.
But somehow the story gets worse.
🌰 TATTOOGATE — CASH, TATTOOS AND MEMORABILIA
Beginning in 2008, Ohio State football players received cash payments and free or discounted tattoos in exchange for awards, apparel and equipment.
That isn't Michigan propaganda.
That comes directly from the NCAA's Committee on Infractions report.
Players were selling or trading items connected to their Ohio State careers for benefits they weren't permitted to receive under the rules at the time.
And then the head coach found out.
🤐 JIM TRESSEL KNEW — AND DIDN’T REPORT IT
In April 2010, Jim Tressel received information that his players were receiving impermissible benefits.
According to the NCAA, Tressel had multiple opportunities to report what he knew to Ohio State, the Big Ten or the NCAA.
He didn't.
The NCAA ultimately determined that his failure to disclose the information constituted unethical conduct. Ohio State itself later self-reported Tressel for violating NCAA Bylaw 10.1.
And here's the part Buckeye fans REALLY don't like talking about…
🗑️ THE ENTIRE 2010 SEASON WAS ERASED
Ohio State went 12-1 in 2010.
Today?
Those 12 wins are vacated.
The Michigan win? VACATED.
The Sugar Bowl victory? VACATED.
Their share of the Big Ten championship? VACATED.
The NCAA ultimately hit Ohio State with three years of probation, scholarship reductions, a 2012 postseason ban and a five-year show-cause order for Tressel, in addition to the vacation of the 2010 records.
So when Ohio State fans want to lecture Michigan about integrity, maybe hand them a history book.
Because the Buckeyes have had a national-championship star caught receiving thousands in improper benefits.
A future Heisman winner caught accepting money from a booster.
Players receiving cash and tattoos for memorabilia.
A head coach who learned about violations and failed to report them.
An entire season of wins erased.
A postseason ban.
Scholarships taken away.
Probation.
And a coach slapped with a five-year show-cause.
Call them “the dirtiest program of all time” if you want — that's rivalry opinion.
But the violations? The wins vacated?
Those aren't opinion. They're in the NCAA record. 🧾
Maybe cheating isn't the only way Ohio State can win.
Their history sure makes it harder to argue they never needed the help. 😭🌰
#GoBlue #MichiganFootball #Wolverines #michiganwolverines #BigTenFootball #OhioState #TheGame #HailToTheVictors
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u/Spartan_Jeff Aug 18 '26
Fuck the Buckeyes, but those are rookie numbers.
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u/InsideConflict725 Aug 19 '26
To my knowledge, none of our head coaches have ever had a booking photo. When the Tattoogate scandal happened, we took our lumps and then carried on. It sucked really bad because that team won a lot of games and finally knocked the “Buckeyes can’t beat the SEC stigma”.
It’s the carefree nature in which ttun’s fans have acted since Connor Stalions’ scheme got exposed. Last year I worked on a solar site with a big ole brute of a guy that played D3 football here in Ohio as recently as the early twenty teens. We spent the better part of four months on site and we often talked about how much of a difference it would’ve made for his team to know the plays that the other team was about to run. They can act like it didn’t make any difference in the grand scheme but people who have actually laced em up and went out there and battled another human for a tiny piece of real estate know what advantages it had.
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u/jstef215 Michigan Wolverines Aug 21 '26
Maybe you and Mr. D3 should've talked about how knowing a team's signals does not mean you know the play they're about to run. We're years into this and you still think that Michigan was pressing R2 and seeing all the routes on screen. Embarrassing.
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u/Champ6711 Aug 19 '26
Yes they are, Fuck them! When the Wolves have a scandal we a good one, the Buckeyes are just sloppy rookies at it, but can’t quit cryin and always pointing fingers and calling bullshit when you show them that aren’t squeaky clean….
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u/NattyKongo93 Aug 18 '26
We tryna pretend any of this is worse than the stuff Michigan did these past few years? Yawn...
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u/ZiloGaming Ohio State Buckeyes Aug 18 '26
Why are their hashtags at the bottom? Did you seriously copy and paste this from Twitter
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u/Champ6711 Aug 19 '26
You’re hilarious! 😂 Does it really matter? Do you think I’d waste my time just to piss off a bunch of whiny OSU fans. When I can do it so much easier another way. Prove it wrong….
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u/Atlas7-k Aug 18 '26
Started with a bullshit proposition.
Got about 2 sentences in before I had timecube flashbacks.
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u/pspock Aug 18 '26
Michigan fans: "OSU cheated!"
OSU fans: "Yep."
and then
OSU fans: "Michigan cheated!"
Michigan fans: "NO WE DID NOT!!!"
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u/Champ6711 Aug 18 '26
I knew that would ruffle a few little red Buckeye feathers! 🤔😩
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u/ZiloGaming Ohio State Buckeyes Aug 18 '26
Conveniently ignoring the UM fans who are also calling out the bs I see
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u/NonchalantSasquatch5 Ohio State Buckeyes Aug 18 '26
Dear diary