Found this interesting:
The Columbus Dispatch reported Saturday that the same guy who gave Pryor
an SUV for a free test drive home to Pennsylvania and back has sold
cars to four dozen Ohio State athletes and their relatives.
One of those sales included a 2009 Chrysler 300M with less than 20,000 miles to then-sophomore linebacker Thaddeus Gibson.
The price on the title? Zero dollars.
Ohio
State’s football players park in a gated, key-card access lot at the
Woody Hayes Athletic Center, as do the coaches — of which there are 29
full-time, part-time, volunteer, graduate assistant and assorted other
varieties profiled on Ohio State’s official football website.
Twenty-nine
coaches to police the vehicle preferences of 85 scholarship players
seems like a manageable ratio, particularly when you throw in the
additional nine full-time compliance department employees Ohio State has
to make sure athletes abide by NCAA rules.
But no one in that
department apparently saw anything worrisome when a single used-car
salesman, Aaron Kniffin, and the owner of one of the two dealerships
where he worked, showed up on the free-pass list for Ohio State football
players seven times, including for the 2007 BCS Championship Game and
the 2009 Fiesta Bowl.
The Columbus Dispatch reported Saturday that the same guy who gave Pryor
an SUV for a free test drive home to Pennsylvania and back has sold
cars to four dozen Ohio State athletes and their relatives.
One of those sales included a 2009 Chrysler 300M with less than 20,000 miles to then-sophomore linebacker Thaddeus Gibson.
The price on the title? Zero dollars.
Ohio
State’s football players park in a gated, key-card access lot at the
Woody Hayes Athletic Center, as do the coaches — of which there are 29
full-time, part-time, volunteer, graduate assistant and assorted other
varieties profiled on Ohio State’s official football website.
Twenty-nine
coaches to police the vehicle preferences of 85 scholarship players
seems like a manageable ratio, particularly when you throw in the
additional nine full-time compliance department employees Ohio State has
to make sure athletes abide by NCAA rules.
But no one in that
department apparently saw anything worrisome when a single used-car
salesman, Aaron Kniffin, and the owner of one of the two dealerships
where he worked, showed up on the free-pass list for Ohio State football
players seven times, including for the 2007 BCS Championship Game and
the 2009 Fiesta Bowl.
