Ohio lawmakers pushing to have Ohio State’s 2010 wins restored amid NIL boom

 Ohio lawmakers want to see Ohio State’s vacated wins from 2010 restored amid the NIL boom.

With NIL having taken complete control of college athletics, Ohio lawmakers are putting forth a resolution urging the NCAA to restore the wins vacated by the Ohio State football program from the 2010 college season.

This season in question saw the Buckeyes win a share of the Big Ten title and the Sugar Bowl. However, the wins were later vacated by the NCAA after players allegedly sold memorabilia in exchange for tattoos. This left a stain on the final years of the Jim Tressel era in Columbus, as well as marring the brilliant college career of former five-star quarterback Terrelle Pryor, among others.

Here is an excerpt from the statement put forth by the Ohio House of Representatives about it.

"“We, the members of the 134th General Assembly of the State of Ohio, urge the National Collegiate Athletics Association to restore the vacated wins and records from the 2020 football season of the Ohio State University. And be it further resolved, that the clerk of the House of Representatives shall transmit duly authenticated copies of this resolution to the National Collegiate Athletics Association and the news media of Ohio.”"

And here is what the statement these Ohio state legislators put out there looks like in full.

Ohio lawmakers want Ohio State’s 2010 season wins to be restored by NCAA

Tressel resigned as Ohio State’s head coach after this scandal. A young Luke Fickell served as his alma mater’s interim head coach in 2011 before Urban Meyer took it over a year later. While Ohio State quickly returned to power under Meyer and has thrived under Ryan Day the last three years, the Buckeyes’ 2010 campaign has remained a hot-button topic in the seasons that have followed.

While NIL legislation today makes what happened back in Columbus over a decade ago look rather silly, when can we ever trust the NCAA to do the right thing under any circumstances whatsoever? If something like this were to happen around the country in today’s age of college sports, nobody would bat an eyelash. However, the NCAA laid the hammer down back when it meant something.

Ultimately, we will believe it when we see it when the Ohio State legislators are able to convince the NCAA it did something wrong over a decade ago. Though getting the wins back and having players from that era of Buckeyes football welcomed back with open arms would be swell, the hopelessly toothless NCAA is not likely to admit any wrongdoing over something it previously did.

This may be a big deal to Ohioans, but these are elected state officials hoping for some resolution.

For more NCAA football news, analysis, opinion and unique coverage by FanSided, including Heisman Trophy and College Football Playoff rankings, be sure to bookmark these pages.