Ohio State football revolving door shows why student should be charged for transferring

Transferring from Ohio State should come with a price

It's hard to be an Ohio State University football fan.

Each year the team builds up and marches upward in the national polls.

Inevitably star players transfer out for greener pastures or step out of bowl games to save themselves for the NFL.  As fans, we don't have these tools. We can't “transfer” to another school and are asked to pay to watch bowl games that are meaningless after snowflake players take a knee.

Pressure of playing. Could Ohio State QB Kyle McCord possibly have known what he signed up for?

More: Former Ohio State WR Julian Fleming to transfer to Penn State

$$$ has more than ruined college football. We don't even have the Rose Bowl any longer.

We probably can't walk back the NIL and the portal, but maybe schools should start invoicing the kids that don't graduate for the scholarship money they consumed before transferring.

At least give them a 1099.

Chris Collings, Upper Arlington

We haven't forgotten Casey

Re "3 years after his death, where is the justice for Casey?" Dec. 31: I would like to reassure Tamala Payne, Casey Goodson's mother, that there are many of us who were shocked and stunned by Casey's death and remain supportive of her mission for justice.

Jason Meade must be held accountable for Casey's death; his actions on Dec. 4, 2020, should make all of us wonder just who is truly safe in this city. Three years of justice delayed is truly justice denied for Casey's family and for the citizens who care about our community.

Casey may be gone, but he is not forgotten.

You chatted my son Casey's name. 3 years after a deputy hunted him, nothing has changed

Sheila Zirkle, Columbus

Cryptocurrency no longer just a concept

The Risk Institute at Ohio State strives to be the prominent resource on enterprise risk management.

Our students recently had the chance to hear from Coinbase Chief Legal Officer, Paul Grewal. This conversation with Grewal highlighted the potential of cryptocurrency in Ohio but also the risk associated with these assets and how we can navigate this evolving technology as a state.

Grewal rightly pointed out Ohio's historical significance as a hub for technology and innovation, making a compelling case for our state to once again become an industry leader of a new era.

With over 1.3 million Ohioans invested in cryptocurrency, it is evident that people are actively seeking alternatives and options in this new digital landscape we find ourselves in.

Digital assets are no longer just a concept but something our students will almost certainly encounter in their future risk management careers.

There is an incredible responsibility on our academic institutions to ensure that young Ohioans are prepared for the environment they will enter after graduation.

It’s for their sake that I ask leaders in our state to continue advancing our state’s position in the digital economy and have the tough conversations surrounding cryptocurrency's potential, risks, and regulations. Let’s keep Ohio at the forefront of technological innovation.

Noah Jellison, executive director, The Risk Institute at Ohio State University

Resolve to be more kind

When thinking of New Year's resolutions, imagine if each of us resolved to remain civil to one another, despite our differences.

What if we resolved to retain our democracy on which our great country, flaws and all, was founded. Here's to a better, kinder 2024.

Pat Rhoads, Columbus

Jon Husted gets F on gender care

Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, asked his opinion on House Bill 68, vetoed by Gov. Mike DeWine, said, “Permanent medical decisions concerning gender should not be made when you are a child.”

Husted should have followed DeWine’s lead and done his homework. Then he would know that no permanent medical decisions are made for children with gender dysphoria.

I do wonder: What permanent treatment does Husted think children — by definition, people who have not entered puberty — are receiving?

Puberty blockers and surgery are procedures that cannot be undertaken until a person is older.

Children receive counseling and support, to which Husted surely would have no objections.

Margo Bartlett, Delaware

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How to take sides

In 2024, why not resolve to heal our polarization?

Let’s learn to avoid side-taking:

• When both sides are right, as in abortion. Taking sides on abortion will never lead to compassionate outcomes for both people who need them and for people who grieve and abhor them.

• When both sides are wrong, as in Israel-Hamas. No matter who thinks they “own” a piece of land, terrorizing and annihilating other human beings will never be right. Ever.

• When we are unwilling to acknowledge both the rational and the emotional aspects of an argument.  Looking at you, marijuana, vaccines, gay wedding cakes, trans-care, guns, food, Trump, and more.

• When our interest is purely self-serving. Whether that interest is financial, political, egotistical, religious/ideological, hedonistic, vengeful, or profligate, self-service has no place in managing issues that can profoundly alter the true well-being of many.

• When doing so will become an identity.

Let’s responsibly take sides:

• When survival – physical, economic, psychological, or spiritual – depends upon immediate and decisive action.

• When we have allowed critical thinking via open dialogue, confrontation of bias, skilled data-gathering, and kindness to inform us.

Polarization is a bug, not a feature, of our wondrous humanity. Let’s fix it in 2024.

Martha Sanders, Columbus

We still miss Paulists

The Dec. 31 article "Preaching to polarized congregations" did not mention any Catholic preachers.

I wonder why.

The Paulist priests including Father Vincent "Vinny" McKiernan, Father Ed Novak and Father Steve Bell, formerly of St. Thomas More Newman Center, spoke from the scripture — from their hearts and experience.

They did not stand above us or hide behind a podium. They stood among us. They spoke to a packed church every weekend. Where does one see that anymore?

"Thrown us out into the cold"| Church has slammed the door in our bewildered faces

Father Vinny used to say a good homily is created with the scripture in one hand and a newspaper in the other.

Is it no wonder that we still miss them. Patricia D. Balassone, Westerville

Mike DeWine doing will of man not God

"Lawmakers should follow DeWine's lead, listen to parents, kids," Jan. 2: To answer the letter of Jean Hoitsma and to Gov. Mike DeWine, all I want to say is that there are two laws on planet Earth.

One is the law of man. The other and most important law is God’s law.

Before man makes any law, he should first go to the Bible to get the answers. The governor is going by man's law rather than God’s law. Before any official lawmaker makes a law, I ask them to open the Bible to the book of Leviticus chapter 18.

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Read it slowly and ask yourself if you are doing the right thing in the eyes of God. Our nation has pushed God out of their lives.

It is time to bring God back in. The other Book is Romans chapter 1. Read the whole chapter, but verses 24 to 32 will give the answer to all the questions people need.

Carl Felton, Columbus

This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Football players who transfer from Ohio State should be charged