Jim Tressel – Say Hi! to Bruce Pearl

So how many times in the past 10 years or so have these things gone on at Ohio State? What makes this even less palatable than the Cam Newton situation is the number of Big 10 fans who love to beat their chest and pronounce how their conference is the one that continually does things the right way and again and again we get these stories.

Ohio State with multiple incidents, Michigan with basketball and football, Illinois with their problems in basketball, Indiana with basketball, and then the issues at Iowa. I am sure I am missing more, but at least the SEC doesn’t claim the moral high ground while turning a blind eyes to these issues.

Jim Tressel and “an atmosphere of compliance” are not facebook friends.

Tattoo parlor under Federal investigation……that can’t be for buying sports memorabilia. Wonder what else was being funneled through there?

If the charges against the athletes weren’t such complete and utter bullshit. I might take a bit of pleasure in this situation. As it is, Oregon and Auburn bought their ways into the MNC game with street agents and Cash Newton.

So now Tressel is going down for lying while Gene is enjoying the $MNC$ and Skip is buying more Texas players with Philip Knight’s money.

Professional Boxing could teach seminars on integrity and ethics to the NCAA.

skip = chip (I mean really they’re both ridiculous names for a grown man).

Hard to imagine that Tressel doesn’t have a way out of this. Can’t believe he’d take the steps he took without the “proper” planning & precaution.

tOSU could use this to force retirement, but Tressel is well-liked by the guys that matter.

Tressel is 9-1 vs. Michigan.

They could dig up 15 or 20 bodies in his basement and Ohio State still wouldn’t get rid of him.

So Michigan got hit with major violations, Iowa nearly killed half its team, and now tOSU has been caught lying to the NCAA and covering up violations. I wonder if Delany will be any less of a sanctimonious prick now. Probably not.

Not to mention that Tressel and tOSU have in excess of 400 secondary violations since 2000. Well, the ones that have been reported anyway.

I can not wait to share this with my tOSU boss!

He too is very ‘holy’ on ethics in the Big 10+2 !

Some good schools in that conference, but would hate to live there (as apparently many people moving south agree with).

A college coach may have been unethical in his dealings with the NCAA … Color me shocked. Next thing you know you’re going to tell me that politicians occasionally lie sometimes or that professional athletes might be willing to take drugs that would help their careers.

Press conference tonight Along The Olentangy.

The whole amateur athlete thing already strikes me as a pretext for ignoring the 14th Amendment. Throw in a prohibition on athletes selling their signatures and dirty laundry and we done slipped off the slope and down the rabbit hole.

And it’s one thing if it’s some sort of toothless NCAA investigation, but when it gets swept in as part of a federal investigation, we’re headed around a wrong bend in the river.

Perhaps he’ll catch a suspension for the fourth quarter of the spring game….

@elevenwarriors: We’re hearing Tressel will admit wrongdoing tonight, sanctions and suspension possible.

srr50 — if Mack Brown went 9-1 against OU, I’d give him an alibi on a first-degree homicide.

http://www.ohiostatebuckeyes.com/SportSelect.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=17300&SPID=10408&SPSID=87747

Does this mean Wisconsin gets the season title outright? Or does it mean that Michigan State gets a win instead of a loss against tOSU, and therefore takes the title outright?

On another note, I’d like to hear how amateur athletics violates the 14th Amendment.

MSU didn’t play tOSU. they lost to Iowa. Wisky beat the buckeyes.

I think this should allow me to retroactively win my bowl pickem pool.

Let’s see —

April – Got emails players were selling their memorabilia type shit (which however you feel about their right to do so, is an NCAA violation), pocketed those emails. STRIKE 1

September – Signed compliance document with NCAA that he was unaware of any violations. STRIKE 2

November – Asked about it again, and claimed no knowledge. STRIKE 3

December – Players suspended, he tells NCAA he didn’t know about it. STRIKE 4

Add that to the fact that he basically required those 5 suspended players to either promise to come back or don’t play in the Sugar Bowl, and yeah, this is bad. “Uh, coach, you KNEW about this? And now I’m stuck here next year?”

Can you say “Pryor, Posey, Herron entering into supplemental draft”?

This is about 20x worse than what Dez Bryant did, and in a lot of ways worse than Bruce Pearl. Bruce Pearl lies covered his ass in recruiting. Tressell’s lies covered up player ineligibility.

He’s not coaching at all next year.

Just think about it …. all of this could of been a part of Jordan Hick’s life !

Nice decision Jordan !

Chris Level tweeted "the worst is yet to come.’ Rumor being floated around that, lo and behold, the tattoo parlor owner is under investigation for drug trafficking, which is where the players’ names surfaced. Nothing to confirm other than internet fodder.

At least USC officials could use “plausible deniability” in the Reggie Bush affair. Tressel knowingly lied and there is a paper trail.

Oh and the guy sending the email is trying to warn Tressel about the kind of people his players are hanging out with “he really is a drug dealer.”

And all Tressel offers up is that he hopes his players grow up — followed by 8 months of silence.

Someone brought up a good question on the Tech boards. Could this be the top 10 program Cowherd was referring to?

This ESPN article from 2004 carries a lot more weight after yesterday: http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=1920867

Maurice Clarett = Ohio State’s Jose Canseco?

…specifically referred to recruiting violations. So tOSU is a schadenfreude bonus.

No one’s got a bigger pass from the national media than the Sweater over the years. Those emails are damning. I think once the dust settles, the NCAA hits that program very, very hard.

After lying to the NCAA about what he knew about violations in his program at Youngstown St he goes to Ohio State and in roughly a ten year period his three biggest offensive players are found to have received improper benefits from boosters, his teams have amassed almost 400 off the field incidents, five of his players are hanging out with a guy under federal investigatiion for drug trafficing and now he is caught in multiple blatant lies.

If this was the state of California and he was a purse snatcher he would be in Chino for life. Instead we hear from various talking heads about how this guy has been an example of the right way to run a program.

If this is not a text book case of a serial offender and lack of institutional control there never will be one and the worst part is that the NCAA does not have the balls to pull the trigger.

So, you’re saying Tressel is the Dexter of college football coaching?

National media’s rising as one on this one:

“Dear NCAA — This is your textbook case. If you walk away, we will refer to you as a corrupt and spineless organization preying on the labor of indentured servants from this point forth, no exceptions.”

That press conference became a trigger event. No stopping it now.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.-Hanlon’s Razor

Normally, I go with Hanlon (or Heinlein, depending on who you ask), but given the repeated patterns here and at Youngstown St., it’s awfully hard not to believe that concentrated and intentional corruption is afoot, perhaps actively aided and abetted by the coaching staff.

Appearance is everything.

If Tressel dressed like Bill Belechick instead of my high school math teacher he would never have gotten the benefit of the doubt.

I would like to think if anything like this was going on at Texas heads would roll, but given what seems to be massive corruption across the football landscape I wonder about that. That kinda shit better not be going on in Austin.

dedfischer,

I am not a FBI profiler, but a few things to consider.

Tressell is an educated white male in his 50’s, upper income, dresses very neatly if not almost OCD, and speaks in very clipped and controlled sentences despite watching his beedy eyes bounce around behind his glasses.

Hmmm….now that I think of it. Has anyone checked the Senators crawl spaces?

Sure, and this whole blog is probably an elaborate sting.

You must not trust us (loud laughter).