Dirty Money

I wonder how it feels to steal $2.2 million from a college after you already screwed them over with NCAA sanctions. I guess I’ll just have to ask Jim O’Brien.

Former Ohio State basketball coach Jim O’Brien was award $2.2 million on Wednesday after Judge Joseph T. Clark ruled O’Brien was wrongfully fired. He said, "This single, isolated failure of performance was not so egregious."

Not only did O’Brien get caught sliding Serbian recruit Aleksander Radojevic $6,000, Ohio State was punished for it. Ohio State is currently serving a three year probation because of Jim O’Brien’s "failure of performance." Ask the NCAA if the "failure of performance" was "egregious." Obviously a three year probation is serious.

Ohio State vice president Christopher M. Culley is right on the money when he says, "We continue to believe that the university acted appropriately in dismissing coach O’Brien. The NCAA sanctions that followed the court’s initial decision in February 2006 validated the serious nature of the violation and reinforced to us that we took the appropriate action in termination his contract."

How Jim O’Brien thinks it’s okay to give recruits money is beyond me. He thinks his contract was unjustly terminated after he completely screwed the program over?

So, Jim O’Brien, have fun finding another job, but have even more fun living on that dirty money.