Tosu Tatgate

UPDATE: Five Buckeyes - including Terrelle Pryor - must sit out first 5 games of 2011 season for accepting improper benefits.

Forget the tats. Didn't the whole Live Strong-
esque bracelet craze end a few years ago?

Now this is just the sort of story that would stop even Santa from his pre-Christmas to-do list and bring him back to the keyboard (assuming he ran a Michigan-centric college football blog on the side).

Reports are coming out of C-bus that Tosu officials are looking into compliance issues which could potentially affect the playing status of several Buckeye players for their Sugar Bowl showdown with the Arkansas "Sign 'em all" Razorbacks. As-yet-unproven rumors are swirling that the Ohio State players took cash from boosters, got free cars, got laid by hookers, were working as hookers took drugs, sold drugs admitted they really loved Michigan and Columbus is a shithole might have traded autographs for tattoos at a local ink shop.

The player names mentioned in the story reported on SportsbyBrooks are Terrelle Pryor, Dan Herron, DeVier Posey, Chris Fields, Nate Oliver, Travis Howard, Mike Adams, Jonathan Newsome, Michael Brewster and Jordan Hall.

Some of the players, such as Pryor, have denied the charge yet most Vegas sports books have pulled the OSU-Arkansas game.

Surprisingly, this brewing story was not broken by a Wolverine trapped behind enemy lines in Ohio, but by Dave Biddle of Bucknuts.com.  Or, as he'll be known around Columbus if Pryor et al. are forced to miss the Sugar Bowl and Tosu again gets spanked by an SEC team: @#$% Dave Biddle. 

Frankly, I'm torn as to whether or not I hope it's true.  Sure, anything that would cause Buckeye fans to rip their commemorative Dale Earnhardt plates off their mobile home walls in anger and throw them across the room at their framed Superman pictures makes me chuckle.

But wouldn't that be some shit if, say, Terrelle Pryor got banished from the Buckeye bowl game for a tattoo while Cam Newton is still allowed to play?

These are: a) two members of Motley Crue or
b) a couple dudes in Ohio State's secondary

(HT: SG)