SI cover story about Tressel

[Coach Hank Crisp]

This weeks SI cover and story

SI investigation reveals eight-year pattern of violations under Tressel.

After reading this article I can see why Tressel resigned monday morning before this article was released. He had to. My opinion is the AD and president Gee won't survive.

 

[Marshal Dillon]

To me, this is the most damning statement about Tressel:


One of Tressel's duties then was to organize and run the Buckeyes' summer camp. Most of the young players who attended it would never play college football, but a few were top prospects whom Ohio State was recruiting. At the end of camp, attendees bought tickets to a raffle with prizes such as cleats and a jersey. According to his fellow assistant, Tressel rigged the raffle so that the elite prospects won -- a potential violation of NCAA rules. Says the former colleague, who asked not to be identified because he still has ties to the Ohio State community, "In the morning he would read the Bible with another coach. Then, in the afternoon, he would go out and cheat kids who had probably saved up money from mowing lawns to buy those raffle tickets. That's Jim Tressel."Read more: Click here for link


I said in an earlier post he was a hypocrite, but this is beyond the pale. Hell will burn hotter with Tressel.


 

[Coach Hank Crisp]

"We're very fortunate that we do not have a systemic problem in our program," Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith said last December. "This is isolated to these young men and isolated to this particular instance."

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[BAMAWV]

That support crumbled suddenly over Memorial Day weekend. Tressel was forced out three days after Sports Illustrated alerted Ohio State officials that the wrongdoing by Tressel's players was far more widespread than had been reported. SI learned that the memorabilia-for-tattoos violations actually stretched back to 2002, Tressel's second season at Ohio State, and involved at least 28 players -- 22 more than the university has acknowledged. Those numbers include, beyond the six suspended players, an additional nine current players as well as nine former players whose alleged wrongdoing might fall within the NCAA's four-year statute of limitations on violations.


One former Buckeye, defensive end Robert Rose, whose career ended in 2009, told SI that he had swapped memorabilia for tattoos and that "at least 20 others" on the team had done so as well. SI's investigation also uncovered allegations that Ohio State players had traded memorabilia for marijuana and that Tressel had potentially broken NCAA rules when he was a Buckeyes assistant coach in the mid-1980s.

[ssmith general]

death penalty

[BAMAWV]

Now NCAA investigators and Ohio State are both looking into the use of cars by several current Buckeyes, including Pryor, who, a source close to one of the investigations told SI, might have driven as many as eight cars in his three years in Columbus. (Ohio State declined to make Pryor available for comment.) Former Buckeyes basketball player Mark Titus posted on his blog on May 24 that it was common knowledge among students that football players were driving cars too pricey for their means. "You'd have to be blind to not notice it," he wrote. Former wide receiver Ray Small confirmed last week to The Lantern, the Ohio State student newspaper, that he got a "deal" on a car from a Columbus dealer, but he did not provide the terms.

[ssmith general]

Systemic

They are making the boogers look like choir boys.

[BAMAWV]

Systemic

They are making the boogers look like choir boys.

Until the barn investigation gets a crack in their defense, such as the Columbus lawyer showing emails he sent to Tressel.

[ssmith general]

Systemic

They are making the boogers look like choir boys.

Until the barn investigation gets a crack in their defense, such as the Columbus lawyer showing emails he sent to Tressel.

I dont think the boogers are smart enough to run something that system wide and get away with it.

[BAMAWV]

Wonder what happened this weekend to make Tressel finally decide to resign? Here you go:

Last Friday, SI informed Ohio State spokesman Jim Lynch of the new allegations and asked that Tressel be made aware of them. Lynch said the school would have some comment by the end of the day. No comment came, and on Saturday, Lynch told SI to contact Tressel's lawyer, Gene Marsh, for any response from the coach; Lynch also said he could not confirm that Tressel had been apprised of the new allegations. The implication was clear: Ohio State was distancing itself from Tressel. (E-mails from SI to Tressel and to Marsh and multiple phone messages for Marsh went unanswered.)

[Jamos]

 

[BAMADCHAMPSHIPS]

Holy Cow! I don't look at the internet/tv/radio for a couple days and this happens. 

[Bamaphile]

"Cochran, who is now retired, still shakes his head over Tressel's contradictions. There was the Christian who lifted kids out of troubled neighborhoods and built a football "family," Cochran says, and there was the coach who claimed to have been kept in the dark after he had assiduously avoided the light. "What bothered me was that the family knows," Cochran says. 'Inside the family everyone knows what's going on.'"

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Hmmm.... Let me see.  Where else have I heard so much talk about "the family"?   

[Jamos]

Yep, we'll see how the "other" family does as the trial of the accused gambling lords is scheduled to begin in June.

[2Stater]

"Cochran, who is now retired, still shakes his head over Tressel's contradictions. There was the Christian who lifted kids out of troubled neighborhoods and built a football "family," Cochran says, and there was the coach who claimed to have been kept in the dark after he had assiduously avoided the light. "What bothered me was that the family knows," Cochran says. 'Inside the family everyone knows what's going on.'"

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Hmmm.... Let me see.  Where else have I heard so much talk about "the family"?   

As in "All in" the fambly? 

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