CLUB TRILLION

In case you haven't heard of Mark Titus, he rides the bench for the Ohio State Buckeyes.  Sounds unimpressive....maybe so.  Nonetheless, he's the mind behind the best blog in the college game.....by far.  And it's not just because he ends each entry with a great video, like this one of spectacular trick shots:

As we've written before, the name of his blog, CLUB TRILLION, is extremely clever (for now, I'll leave you to your own devices to figure out the meaing behind it).

The best thing about the blog is that Titus holds no punches when it comes to the NCAA, which makes him the envy of many athletes under their long-reaching arms.  Mark blessed us with some great stuff in a recent blog.

He touches on his battles with the NCAA compliance office as backlash to having some fun with the per diem signatures required to recieve his meal money.

After publishing my post that included the tidbit about the Twitter contest with the fake names, a part of me wondered if admitting that I don’t sign my actual signature would come back to bite me. But then I realized that there was no way compliance would honestly care that much

Personally, I agree with Mark: Compliance offices should have much more important things to deal with other than whether or not the little white guy on the end of the bench signed his name as it is on his driver's license.

Turns out the NCAA was not happy with him at all and made him go through a stack of per diem sheets to make sure his "correct" signature was on each one.

Mark takes is a step further and shows some other violations he may have perpetrated over the years:

During my sophomore year at Ohio State, I was relentlessly hitting on some chick at an on-campus party. I tried to ease into a conversation by making her laugh, so I said, “Doesn’t it annoy the crap out of you that those dumb little kids on Legends of The Hidden Temple could never put together the shrine of the silver monkey?” She didn’t budge. But then someone mentioned to her that I played basketball at OSU and she gave me her number as she whispered something in my ear that would surely make her dad want to kill me. I’m almost positive that’s an impermissible extra benefit, since she only gave me her number because I play basketball.

Here's my favorite violation that he's self reporting:

My mom made me dinner the last time I visited my hometown. At the time, I thought it was because she loved me and wanted me to eat well. I later found out that she is an agent and she was trying to persuade me to sign with her after the season. That must explain why the food wasn’t burnt that time. (Just kidding, Mom! You know I love you and your meatloaf!)

Classic.  But hey, if schools can get out of it by self reporting recruiting violations there's no reason Club Trillion shouldn't be able to either.

Another important aspect of being a benchwarmer is knowing the proper protocol of the handshake when big time players come out of the game and at the end of the game.  Needless to say, Mark is an expert of the  One Armed Embrace

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