Report: Ex-Ohio St. player paid $0 for car

Linebacker former Ohio State Thaddeus Gibson did not understand why his purchase of a used Chrysler 300 c is listed at $0 in documents disclosed in a report by the media, because it was always the payment on the vehicle.

Now, the newly discovered documents appear to save Gibson-$ 13,700.

In a first report on the investigation of the State of Ohio for the sale of cars of athletes and their families, The Columbus Dispatch cited documents showing a purchase price of $0 for Gibson car.

But on Wednesday, the newspaper reported that it has obtained a previous on the vehicle, the listing purchase price as $13,700 for a sale as of June 27, 2007 and funded by the National Bank of Huntington.

The title indicating the purchase as $0 price was dated March 6, 2008, listed the same bank as a lender, according to the report.

Department of compliance of the State of Ohio, examines sales of cars more of 50 student-athletes and their families to ensure that sales to the rules of the NCAA.

Sending reported that a car seller who received the set of passes of athletes in Ohio State managed many trading at two different dealers. State of Ohio has taken since the vendor, Aaron Kniffin, off the coast of the list of pass.

Athletes are to receive special offers not available to other students and are not allowed to trade in the autograph of discounts. The two dealers display signed Ohio State memorabilia in their showrooms.

School officials have seen no evidence of players get special treatment in the sales of vehicles, Douglas Archie, Associate Director sportif of compliance, said Saturday.

"In accordance with our standard procedures, we are nevertheless review these sales of ourselves that our policies adhered to," he said.

The mother and brother of quarterback Terrelle Pryor Buckeyes also purchased cars dealers. Kniffin loaned his own car to Pryor for a drive test three days at the home of the Pryor, in Jeannette, PA.

Kniffin, and the owner of one of the dealers, he worked for, Jason Goss, attended seven football games as guests of the players, including the 2007 national championship and the 2009 Fiesta Bowl.

Selling car survey comes on the heels of Ohio State Jim Tressel football coach punished for not to reveal his knowledge of its players NCAA violations.

Tressel was notified in April 2010 via emails from a fan of Buckeyes and former player that Ohio State players traded signed jerseys and other memorabilia to the owner of a tattoo tattoos of reduced prices and money Columbus salon. Even though his contract and NCAA rules requiring him to notify the Athletic Director Gene Smith, Ohio State President e. Gordon Gee or Department of the University compliance, Tressel did not that.

Is that more than nine months - and five players including Pryor had been suspended for five games of the season of 2011 - that officials of the State of Ohio discovered emails and confronted Tressel. Finally, he admitted he knew that the players get the illegitimate benefits.

Tressel was initially suspended for two matches - later extended for the first five games this fall to correspond to the punishment of five players - and was sentenced to a fine of $250,000, required to make public apology and to receive a public reprimand and attend a seminar of NCAA compliance.

The NCAA is always studying Ohio State Tressel, which are scheduled to appear before the NCAA on offences Committee August 12.