Ohio State was all too aware what Tressel was from the start: a steady performer, a ruthless...

Ohio State was all too aware what Tressel was from the start: a steady performer, a ruthless worker, and above all an orthodox cheater and horrendous gambler.**

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Spencer is clueless...

Try this for some real insight:

http://www.elevenwarriors.com/2011/05/the-man-who-wasnt-there#more

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by devidee33 on May 31, 2011 10:58 PM CDT reply actions

thought it was pretty decent from the Ohio State perspective, but, honestly, the reality is the guy got caught up in his own trap. How he did that was amazingly stupid. I don’t think anyone can argue that.

OSU fans appear to be getting beyond denial and into the rationalization phase (everyone is doing it), and while Jim Tressel might have done a lot of good in the world, he screwed it all up in the end. It would have been one thing if he hadn’t put himself on a pedestal (the books), but he did.

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by Jon Johnston on Jun 1, 2011 12:00 AM CDT up reply actions

An Ohio State

blog is definitely the place to go for reasoned, unbiased analysis on this issue, for sure.

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by Brizzle T on Jun 1, 2011 12:02 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs

If only Tressel had told the truth he would still have his job.

College students are going to do some stupid shit, its happens. College coaches should not enable this stupid shit and lie to protect their students/players. Tressel wasn’t fired because of what the players did, he was fired for what he did. Your program and your guilty players were going to be the only ones punished for the sins of some players, Tressel would have survived had he not sinned himself.

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by nateforchiefs on Jun 1, 2011 4:31 AM CDT up reply actions

Agreed

Tressel is paying for his own sins not the sins of his players. The reason he didn’t come forward to begin with is he knew where it would lead. Proof of him knowing exactly what was going on, so he had no choice but to try and hide it. He tricked us all with the sweater vest and his nickname of the senator. We should have known better their isn’t an honest politician in the world. The pressure to win was to great and Tressel sold his soul for victories. I wonder how much the OSU talking heads on ESPN knew about what was going on and if they just turned a blind eye as well. Herbstreit, Smith, and Speilman all have great connections to the program and I would guess they also knew what was happening. If this sort of thing ever happens at Nebraska I vote we make a clean sweep starting with Pearlman, Osborne, and on down from there.

by Huzkerfan on Jun 1, 2011 10:17 AM CDT reply actions

Second that -

Lying to the NCAA is the killer. A $500,000 signed contract with a player that includes 3 sado-mas whores on call and a fleet of Humvees is a lesser violation in their eyes. Get familiar with the phrases:

“lack of institutional control”
and
“encouraging a culture of non-compliance”

by Andy Ketterson on Jun 1, 2011 10:51 AM CDT up reply actions

The university didn't lie, Tressel did.

It was an OSU staffer that found the emails on Tressel’s computer. As soon as the university discovered the emails they filed a detailed self-report with the NCAA.

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by devidee33 on Jun 1, 2011 12:49 PM CDT up reply actions

I'm thinking

that a lot of that depends on how much truth can be placed on the SI account, and how much more there is. You had basically one writer spend a few months on a story. He implicated 28 players. If he (allegedly) found that many, a group of investigators from the NCAA are likely to find more.

So – Ohio State would really really really love your statement to be true. Whether it is or not – that’s yet to be determined.

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by Jon Johnston on Jun 1, 2011 1:20 PM CDT up reply actions

The problem(overall) is...

the fact that the college did know. Not that every single person in the university knew, but people who should report situations like this know and turn a blind eye. The ONLY reason this came out was honestly out of sheer luck that that e-mail was found. That’s what started the snowball. All that’s needed for a lot of these institutions to start getting busted is one small leak. All anyone from the NCAA has to do is simply look. Once they look, they will see what is going on, but there has to be a reason for them to look. Had Tressel reported it appropriately, he would still be in this same situation because when they dig enough, they’ll see that the program is doing other things as well(most in the tOSU know, but they can’t pin them to anything without digging).

The reality is(probably) that a lot of programs have similar issues. I’m an Iowa fan and I wouldn’t be surprised one bit if something similar happened in our backyard. There’s no reason to point and laugh too hard because it could just as easily be either of our programs we’re talking about here. Looking back at recent troubled programs: USC, Bama, Auburn, tOSU, there seems to be a problem year in, year out with the big-time programs. Not saying all these schools are using $$ to recruit or anything, but with success and big-time college athletes, there’s always a booster around the corner trying to help them out and the kids are taking the $$ and running to the NFL.

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by DM_Purp on Jun 1, 2011 3:30 PM CDT up reply actions

But Tressel was a part of the university at the time.

So as soon as he signed the doc saying that he knew of no violations, the university was implicated. Unfortunately, they can’t pretend that Tressel is some sort of individual contracted labor, but the staffer and the compliance dept. truly represent OSU.

by Andy Ketterson on Jun 1, 2011 3:38 PM CDT up reply actions

You

can’t tell me that Tressel’s bosses didn’t know what was going on. They were profitting from it and they didn’t care or even worse did want to know.

by Huzkerfan on Jun 1, 2011 5:07 PM CDT up reply actions

Guys show up with thousands of dollars in tattoos and new cars every other month and you’re telling me nobody had any idea of what is going on outside of Tressel?

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by Omaha Sun on Jun 1, 2011 5:46 PM CDT up reply actions

Tressel's not the last guy to lose his job in this mess.

And Pryor may not be the only player gone.

This is a feeding frenzy for the sports media now & there’s plenty of kibble to go around

by Andy Ketterson on Jun 1, 2011 7:44 PM CDT reply actions

Tressel let the program down

He had the power to stop it in its tracks when he first found out (despite his history). He should know that any person that hold secrets and is in the public spotlight for a long enough period of time is going to be found out. Now he is walking away from a program that he just imploded. Buckeye fans deserve better.

by BledRed on Jun 2, 2011 12:07 AM CDT reply actions