So this is what happens when your school's nickname is an eye that can't (or won't) see: You wind up owing a lot of people a lot of foldin' green.
Ohio State University, home of the Buckeyes, has already forked over $40 mill because it let a sicko named Dr. Richard Strauss prey on its athletes for years back in the day. Now it will face a new round of lawsuits from Strauss' victims after the Supreme Court upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that OSU was trying to milk the legal clock until the statute limitations on Strauss' crimes ran out.
The Court of Appeals said, nah, no can do, you can't weasel out of things that easy. And even Donald Trump's pet Supremes agreed.
This raises the delicious possibility of Ohio congressman Jim Jordan being deposed to testify, seeing how he was an assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State during the time Strauss was sexually assaulting Buckeye wrestlers. Jordan has always claimed he never saw nothin', having apparently mastered the art of looking the other way as long as it didn't involve anyone named Biden.
"Bullshite," several former Ohio State athletes have responded, in so many words.
And so while Rasslin' Jim squanders more of the people's money plunging down various rabbit holes, he could be wind up on the griddle himself. Karma's a bitch, and so forth.
As for Ohio State ...
Well, Ryan Day better get Buckeye Football Inc. to the CFP this fall. Looks like OSU's gonna need the cash.
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