Our Honor Defend

(OHD-Wire) ALABAMA — Recent reports confirm that Our Honor Defend bloggers Vico and Gabby Jay have been both given 7 day suspensions by the NCAA’s Division I Committee on Blogging Infractions for failing to meet the NCAA-required minimum quality-quantity ratio, a secondary violation of NCAA blogging guidelines. The suspensions make Our Honor Defend the first blog to be punished by the NCAA and the respective bloggers the first to be forced away by the NCAA from their own blog.

“I actually picked up on the possibility of the violation a month ago and let the NCAA’s Committee on Blogging Infractions know about it”, said OHD administrator and 2-star blogging prospect Vico. “I faithfully self-report any and all violations, consistent with what I’ve stated before about the intentions of this blog. We try to run a clean website here, but I’ve known from the get-go we just don’t run a very good one. It didn’t occur to me we could slip below the .25 minimum quality-quantity ratio, confirming that for every 4 posts Gabby and I have made, 3 of them have been total crap. Very disappointing, especially when we’re in the midst of a chase for a championship t-shirt and with the Better Know A Buckeye feature on Mike Adams forthcoming. Disappointing indeed.”

“We started this blog with several intentions. First: find a place to vent on the internets so we don’t end up breaking our respective televisions when Mark May is on the moving pictures box. Intention the second: win the internets.”, OHD editor and 3-star blogging prospect Gabby Jay added. “Implicit in these goals then is to not become the Auburn of the blogosphere. We — especially Vico whose quality-quantity ratio was the lowest — disappointed ourselves, our families and our teammates. We tried and tried, but we — especially Vico — came up short. This is something we’re going to learn from. We’re not going to let it get us down. We’re just going to continue trusting in God each and every day and keep working hard and come back blogging better than ever.”

Vico added how fortuitous the suspension was. “If nothing else, this serves as a flimsy pretext to excuse us from blogging as Gabby and I have to put together a research proposal for our jobs for the duration of next week. We also have to fly to Chicago at the end of the week to present it. We’re looking forward to the trip back to the Midwest.”

Curiously, Max Power, a 5-star dual threat blogging prospect from the Cleveland area, was originally presumed to be linked to the violation, though was eventually not given a suspension. Max Power has been linked to a variety of questionable behaviors since signing his letter of intent to blog at Our Honor Defend. Most recently, he was the subject of an internal investigation regarding his ACT scores that were questioned by Urban Meyer, though he was quietly cleared of all wrongdoing. Max Power had no comment as he hurried to his 2008 Cadillac stretch Escalade.

The suspensions are effective Monday March 31 and will carry through April 7, during which time both bloggers will be barred from posting or commenting.