Numbers don't lie: Priorities are out of order at Ohio State
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Joe Bauserman (14) scrambles after his own fumble caused by Michigan State's Denicos Allen. (US Presswire)
They booed Saturday at Ohio State because the Buckeyes lost to Michigan State. They booed the remaining innocent, eligible student-athletes who (we think) haven't taken extra benefits. They booed bad football. They booed bad football forgetting that better players were either suspended or had escaped to the NFL.
That's no way to impress Urban Meyer.
The accepted silver-and-gray lining resulting from the Buckeyes imminent NCAA-induced collapse is that the franchise will be driven so far into a ditch there will be no choice but to hire the nation's best free-agent coach.
A few things wrong with that: The penalties haven't even been handed down. It seems like there are as many boosters running wild in Columbus as NCAA investigators. Oh, yes and there's this: The flawed assumption that there would be someone around of sound mind and ethics to make the decision on Meyer.
Saturday showed us once again that the priorities are out of order in Columbus. How do we know this? The sun came up. To be fair, that makes Bucknuts no different than the fans in Norman, Eugene or Gainesville. Except that at none of those places is about to turn some free tattoos into a bonfire that burns down the football program.
The boo birds should have saved some of their invective for Monday afternoon. That's when AD Gene Smith looked the world in the eye and continued to tell them that all is well. If you consider alibis and excuses "well".
We don't understand that it's hard to oversee 1,090 athletes, he told us, with 200 new ones coming in each year. It's even harder to keep track of all those community service hours. And boosters. And summer jobs.
It turns out two of the Buckeye Five previously suspended five games for taking extra benefits -- 2010 leading rusher Dan Herron and top returning receiver DeVier Posey -- were caught taking even more extra benefits. Both allegedly were paid for work they didn't do during summer jobs. Posey also reportedly accepted a free round of golf.
This, while Ohio State is dealing with an amended notice of allegations in a still open-ended NCAA investigation.
Smith, president Gordon Gee and the compliance department keep coming to work each day. Buckeyes keep getting caught breaking NCAA rules. What's that definition of insanity again?
Smith tried to explain Monday how Herron, DeVier and three other players were paid for that work they didn't do during those summer jobs. He told us the unending problems aren't evidence of a "systemic" failing in Ohio State athletics. He explained why a guy named Bobby DeGeronimo had been disassociated from the program.
Certain people, he said, "went off the reservation."
Then Smith summed up the entire Tressel/email/Tatoogate/NCAA/suspension thing this way:
"It's not 30 players."
As in the number of players involved in wrongdoing. It's less than that.
That's comforting. What is this, Oklahoma in the 1980s or gangland Chicago in the 1930s?
It would be lazy at this point to write that Smith should lose his job. That's assumed. That finally hit home for me when I noticed who wasn't at the Monday presser. No one of substance. Certainly not Gee to crow, "I hope Gene doesn't fire me."
The money quotes have ended, along with accountability.
Smith should have been canned months ago, along with Gee and the entire compliance department. It's not personal. It's business. Sooner or later, whoever is in charge at Ohio State will realize it. The proud franchise being run off the road cannot sustain the damage.
Ain't life a ditch?
Just to sum up: Jim Tressel used ineligible players to win a Big Ten title and a Rose Bowl. Five players were suspended for the Sugar Bowl, and then allowed to play. Don't ask how or why.
Since then, Terrelle Pryor and Tressel "left" and both were suspended by the NFL before they were ever in the NFL.
There's more: That August infractions committee hearing that left more questions than answers. All along, there has been more self-rationalization than self-examination.
Those fans shamefully booed those innocent players. They booed the coach, Luke Fickell, who was doing nothing more than being loyal to his university by taking the job. The Buckeyes are 3-2 without the Buckeye Five. They may be 3-5 when they come out of a three-game stretch that next includes games at Nebraksa, at Illinois and at home against Wisconsin.
It wasn't supposed to be this bad this soon, but that's hardly the main issue. If and when Meyer wants to return to coaching, he wants to be at a place that has a chance to win. He wants to be backed by a strong athletic director and president. He wants to be able to recruit without a postseason ban.
Oops.
No matter how much Smith says his athletic department isn't, Ohio State now clearly has to be in line for failure to monitor and lack of institutional control. That means enhanced penalties. That means a dreaded bowl ban. Is has to. Everything has to be on the table since the NCAA is basically being mocked in this case.
Tattoogate has metastasized for so long that the original body ink has faded. That was the starting point. Who knows where it's going to end? When the NCAA comes to your town, it doesn't stop with the original allegations. It's a prostate exam for the entire athletic department. The whole process can make an AD want to jump off a cliff screaming, DiGeronimo!
There was big-time pressure on NCAA president Mark Emmert to begin with. He celebrates his first anniversary on the job this week needing a Hazmat unit to clean up the problems. Chief among them was perception, that the NCAA is unfair.
One player, Reggie Bush, took down USC. At Ohio State, the two-deep is being redefined as the number of players in violation of NCAA rules at any given moment. Nothing systemic to see here, though. Move along, folks. All is well.
"I know most people don't understand that," Smith said.
No, we don't. There are lots of sketchy people hanging around the program. There are lots of people doing bad jobs trying to track down bad things at Ohio State. I know, I know. That makes The university no different than a lot of places.
But that's another excuse. Take heart, though, Bucknuts. The numbers don't lie.
At least it's not 30 players.
Netflix streaming on your console? You have now disconnected numbers
Netflix is of a cake accompanied by video game consoles as a sweet layer of icing in the middle. Sure there are various icing on top, and it is not really necessary, but this extra little tidbit everything makes more delicious. Mmmm... Cake...
But let's not get too distracted us here with this talk of cakes. Somehow, it is a lie. The real issue with the authorities is that you have to pay to go now for your cake and then pay to eat it.
Netflix instant-streaming Blu-ray DVD options is to separate your mail. Streaming now costs $7.99. If you want to have always the option for DVDs and Blu-ray, you'll jump for a second package starts with $7.99 have. If you both want to, you have to pay you for each individually.
Granted, it was an option for instant streaming - only before many people pay for $7.99, but I don't see for, that if you could handle DVDs for the same price.
What does this mean for gamers? It means that everyone who already had a Netflix package and were able, free of charge, can no longer stream content on their consoles. At least not for you free of charge. I know that I only console-streaming used, because I have Netflix, but now, the streaming not I for a while, I want to lose it. Then again, I want not to pay, either.
So I'm not surprised this happened earlier. After all, Netflix streaming on consoles accounts for 20% of all Internet traffic -is, the lot of bandwidth.
Here is the e-Mail to send customers existing the Netflix:
Dear pissed off consumers, [okay, we changed the name a bit.]
We are to separate unlimited DVDs by mail and unlimited streaming in two separate plans, which better reflect the costs of the individual. Now our members have a choice: a streaming only plan, a single DVD plan, or both.
Their current $9.99 a month membership for unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs will be divided into 2 different plans:
Plan 1: Unlimited streaming (not DVDs) for $7.99 per month
Plan 2: Unlimited DVDs, 1 from in time (no streaming) for $7.99 per monthYour price for getting both of these plans are $15.98 per month ($ 7.99 + $7.99). You have to do everything, next to your memberships for unlimited streaming and unlimited DVDs.
These prices are for charges that begin on or after 1 September 2011.
You can easily change or cancel your unlimited streaming plan, unlimited DVD plan, or both, of the plan change in your account page.
We recognize that many possibilities for home entertainment, and we thank you have for your business. As always, if you have questions, contact you to contact us at 1-888-357-1516 call.
-The Netflix team
The numbers to do: 3ds surges past PSP in Japan
Hardware:
1. 3Ds: 40,649
2. PSP: 31,741
3. PS3: 16,081
4. Wii: 6,678
5. DSi LL: 5,464
6. DSi: 5,322
7. Xbox 360: 2.875
8. PS2: 1346
9. DS Lite: 109.
10. PSP go: 55
Software:
1. Cardboard Senki (PSP): 166,187
(2) The legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time 3D (3ds): 164,110
3. Yakuza end (PS3): 53,775
4. I love the physical phosphorus Wolfgang on the stone gate (Xbox 360): 31,666
5. Stone gate Double Pack (Xbox 360): 11,041
6. : Resident Evil: the mercenary-3D (3ds): 9,062
7. Dragon Quest monsters: Joker 2 Professional (DS): 7,997
8. Battle & more! Input Pokemon DS (DS): 6,609
9. Wii Party (Wii): 6,556
10. One piece unlimited cruise specials (3ds): 6,549
Love don't you just Google translate? I swear to God, if I love the physical phosphorus Wolfgang on the stone gate not stateside comes I lose my f * ing Geist. If it said means a ton of Ocarina of Time 3D does not move, that the PSP is down and out. In fact, you will noticed that PSP title earned the top spot in the software charts by only 77 units. I'm sure that Nintendo is more than satisfied with the single-week-end in hardware sales. We will see next week when the 3ds tempo can maintain its sales. I would have thought that enough PSP with the Vita start draws itself had the Japanese players in the coming months. Thoughts?
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The numbers to do: Can represent NPDs
It is not the best Gumshoe in Los Angeles, to find out what game may sold more than the rest of the month. While I want to add this post to a Noir theme, I am afraid I have the technical know-how, drum up a black and white filers for your reading pleasure. Let us enable L.A. Noire the mood set music above, while catch you up with the NPD numbers for the previous month.
Ensure in hardware sales that Microsoft, let us know that the Xbox 360 was the best-selling console for may with 270,000 units on foot out the door with the new owner. This is a 39% Year-Over-year profit. As an industry, game is spending by 13% with a drop of $ 829.4 million up to $718.8 million. May had three high profile releases last year while only two found their way out the door this year: L.A. Noire and brink. Here the top is 10 with a breakdown after the fact:
1. La Noire (Xbox 360, PS3)
2. Brink (360, PS3, PC)
3. LEGO curse of the Caribbean: the video game (Wii, 360, PS3, 3ds, PSP, NDS, PC)
4. Portal 2 (360, PS3, PC)
5. Mortal Kombat 2011 (PS3, 360)
6. Call of duty: black ops (360, PS3, Wii, NDS, PC)
7. Zumba fitness: to enter the party (360, PS3, Wii)
8. NBA 2 K 11 (360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP, PC)
9. Just Dance 2 (Wii)
10. III LEGO StarWars: the Clone Wars (Wii, NDS, 360, PS3, 3ds, PSP, PC)
Obviously brink was 2011 affected reviews or the big PSN not of his joint failure, but it was not enough, to a rock star games Hulk as L.A. Noirestop. Portal 2 and Mortal Kombat were big seller and they in April continues in May with its high-profile name in tow. Black Ops took some sales, most likely thanks to new DLC. LEGO games was also champion thanks to the beginning of the summer break for some children and the fact that one of them had with Johnny Depp in it... a movie, or was, that the other way around? Even NBA 2 K 11 finale to the evening ends just yesterday be explained.
Zumba Fitness and only dance 2 on this list are doing so what the hell? The best explanation is received in the people speak at the end of this week featured.
