After Ohio State’s troubles with players selling the school’s traditional gold pants charm, the Buckeyes are understandably leery about a repeat trade of that sacred trinket for tattoos. So Ohio State hasn’t awarded the charm to the 2010 team for their victory over Michigan, and is still mulling whether it will be giving them out in the near future.
Ohio State Not Handing Out Gold Pants Charm To 2010 Team
Jim Lachey, president of Ohio State’s Gold Pants Club — that’s an actual thing, yes — explains that Ohio State finds itself on virgin soil.
“We’re dealing with some outstanding issues that we’ve never had to deal with before,” Lachey said.
That has to do with worries about the gold pants charms ending up on the open market less than a year after the charms being on the market led to an NCAA investigation and indirectly led to the suspension of head coach Jim Tressel. But it also has to do with the wake of that investigation: as Lachey notes, “If they vacate the win, it makes no sense to award the gold pants, at least in our minds.”
It appears that Ohio State giving Michigan its first-ever seven-game losing streak in their rivalry was not without its drawbacks.
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