If the crushing hit that Ohio quarterback Austen Everson took in the third quarter of Saturday's loss to Bowling Green left him dazed and confused, just imagine how Director of Athletics Kirby Hocutt and coach Frank Solich felt after the hit the football program took in that day's edition of The Columbus Dispatch.
Four days after the university's problems during the past year were featured in The New York Times, The Dispatch's Randy Ludlow delivered a second black eye to Ohio by uncovering that 17 Bobcat football players have been arrested in Athens County over the past nine months.
What on earth did Solich and Hocutt think Ludlow wanted to focus on for his article ' the team's highest grade-point average since 1997? Only the na+
and get better from the situation we are in today Hocutt promised at Monday's press conference.
Apparently, it took two black eyes from the media for the university to look in the mirror and see that things obviously don't look good. For Ohio's sake, the new policies better bring change ' the third blow might be a fatal one.' Jason Fazzone is a junior journalism major who covers the volleyball team and writes a weekly sports column for The Post. Send him an e-mail at jf104004@ohiou.edu.
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