The 9-0 start and not reaching 10-0 had nothing to do with Rick's inability to beat Northwestern that year. If you remember, Iowa was up 10-0 in the 2nd quarter when Rick was injured and replaced by an all too ineffective JVB that day. Being at that game, it was obvious before Rick got hurt that Iowa was the better team. I know he lost other times to Northwestern but this day was not on him.
Does Tressel realize he's no longer the tOSU coach?
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The 9-0 start and not reaching 10-0 had nothing to do with Rick's inability to beat Northwestern that year. If you remember, Iowa was up 10-0 in the 2nd quarter when Rick was injured and replaced by an all too ineffective JVB that day. Being at that game, it was obvious before Rick got hurt that Iowa was the better team. I know he lost other times to Northwestern but this day was not on him.
okeefe4prez
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I shudder to think of what would happen if Fitz had OSU's talent. Given that he turned down the Michigan job and extracted a raise and that he really seems to love NU, I hope he stays there. If the guy ends up at PSU or OSU the rest of the conference is doomed.
okeefe4prez
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The fairly bogus call on the Wegher TD run was pretty bad, too. But as I recall, NU had QB issues that day as well, so the QB issues hurt both teams, it's just that NU had more studs who made plays that day.
tweeterhawk
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Including hidden grabs of the QB's facemask. Call needed to be made; fumble and TD never should have been allowed. Does Jim Bain do football?
AZHAWKFAN1
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Fufred, would you say that a huge element of the fan base would still call Tressel one of the best ever even if OSU received the death penalty? I find that hard to believe. They can't be that blind, or could they?
okeefe4prez
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Would not happen in a million years. If it did happen, Fox would want out of the BTN contract and the conference, at least with respect to FB, would be forced into leaving the NCAA. A few programs have that level of pull and OSU is one of them. We need their eyeballs and huge stadium to support the conference and the NCAA wouldn't want to lose one of its huge contributors, especially over some cars and tats.
BSpringsteen
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I'm with OK4P on this one... whose to say that there aren't players on every team that if there was a compliance official only handling the football team would be ruled ineligible?
Fact: all of these kids got into school with BS academic requirements anyway... even if they could get into the school with the standard admission requirements, they don't have to. If they didn't play football I would wager the majority of the kids on every BCS team wouldn't be admitted to the school.
OSU's mercenaries beat our mercenaries, and everyone else's, and I don't believe for one second that they only reason they even went there in the first place was because there was the potential for a car. They went there to win, and play in front of 110,000 people.
Fact: all of these kids got into school with BS academic requirements anyway... even if they could get into the school with the standard admission requirements, they don't have to. If they didn't play football I would wager the majority of the kids on every BCS team wouldn't be admitted to the school.
OSU's mercenaries beat our mercenaries, and everyone else's, and I don't believe for one second that they only reason they even went there in the first place was because there was the potential for a car. They went there to win, and play in front of 110,000 people.
pin2win
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THIS
I would guess, but OSU getting the death penalty is about as unrealistic as it gets. Since the SI article was kinda overblown OSU still isn't even staring at a LOIC charge.
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tubahawk
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This says it for me. It is naive to think these types of incidents aren't occuring at all major (or at least successful) Div. 1 Schools.
