Ohio State Press Conference Live Thread- Ohio State suspends Tressel for Two Games

If you're wondering what Ohio State fans are saying about the Jim Tressel situation, SB Nation's "Along The Olentangy" has a live thread happening where you can catch comments.

Bottom line - Tressel will serve a two-game suspension, pay a $250k fine (!), attend a compliance class and have to listen to 40 hours of Hillary Clinton speeches.

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So the moral of this story is?

If you screw up, hide the evidence. If/when someone digs up the evidence, come out right away and apologize.

In the deed, the glory.
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by Aaron Musfeldt on Mar 8, 2011 7:16 PM CST reply actions

Well thank God he didn't get fired

Gotta admire the balls of tOSU to suspend him for Akron and Toledo though. I’m sure them deciding that 2 weeks was enough had nothing to do with Miami being week 3. /sarcasm

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by jdhusker on Mar 8, 2011 7:23 PM CST reply actions

Have a feelin'

The NCAA may tack on a game or two, along with a few Benjamins. Knowingly suppressing things like this on the way to a conference championship and then berating the players and con-ing them into staying another year can’t sit too well with the NCAA, no matter what tOSU does in terms of suspensions/fines.

by brutus1382 on Mar 8, 2011 9:33 PM CST up reply actions

Also, I know this site is generally a politics-free zone

But the Hillary Clinton line kinda opened this up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH8owcMHc34

"My hardest job is to convince the people of Nebraska that 10-1 is not a losing season." - Tom Osborne

by jdhusker on Mar 8, 2011 7:34 PM CST reply actions

Like that is all he is going to get

Although the Hilary Clinton speeches might be a tad bit cruel and unusual I’d swallow my gum if the NCAA doesn’t vacate all of OSU’s wins from last season tack on a few more games to that suspension that are played in the conference part of their schedule (think Bruce Pearl) and pull at least a few scholarships (I mean wasn’t the fact that the NCAA suspected a USC coach of having knowledge of their violations the whole reason for them losing scholarships) anything less and I’d be disgusted with the NCAA.

by HuskerPhil on Mar 8, 2011 10:15 PM CST reply actions

WHAT????

no one is swayed by this defense?

Tressel claimed that he was not forthcoming about the timeline because he’d been told by an attorney that a federal drug trafficking investigation involving multiple Buckeyes players was ongoing, and that he should keep certain information confidential.

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by Jon Johnston on Mar 8, 2011 10:37 PM CST reply actions

linkie

http://www.sbnation.com/ncaa-football/2010/12/22/1892834/ohio-state-tattoo-autograph-violation-ncaa-infraction-terrelle-pryor

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by Jon Johnston on Mar 8, 2011 10:37 PM CST up reply actions

The audacity is impressive. Do I believe it? Eh…… a little bit, but not enough to justify or excuse his actions.

Ann Arbor is a trollop.

by Semicorrect on Mar 9, 2011 1:59 AM CST up reply actions

How thin

is the ice in Columbus for Tressel. If this snowballs into more and more I wonder what the administration will do. This isn’t the first thing to happen at Ohio State since he’s been there. Clarrett in the championship year seems to have slipped everyones mind. What it looks like from the outside is he turned his head and hoped no one would find out what was going on. But, we don’t know all the facts at first glance it doesn’t look good. But neither did the Phillips situation when Osborne was head coach here.

by Huzkerfan on Mar 9, 2011 10:00 AM CST reply actions

Hmmm...

if it were some 3rd teamers, it would’ve been full disclosure from the get-go.

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by Brizzle T on Mar 9, 2011 3:31 PM CST reply actions

Tressel is an absolute

hypocrite! He tells those players that they can play in the bowl game if they promise to come back next year and sit out the five games! What the hell is that?!?! The man of “integrity” that writes books on character and “doing right” now has to look in the mirror. However, people like tend to see a different image than the rest of us. Just like Bill McCartney who professed to be of such high moral character. Hell, he even started Promise Keepers! And yet, where was all this integrity when they got that fifth down? Those who hold themselves up to be “holier than though” had better make damn sure that the skeletons never existed in the closet!

by jon's only friend on Mar 9, 2011 9:54 PM CST reply actions