SI story on tOSU now up

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spliff45

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"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."

Sports Illustrated investigation on Jim Tressel, Ohio State - SI.com - Magazine
 
These allegations couldn't come against a better school than osu...

I just hope the NCAA has the cajones to rally do something about it other than slap osu on the wrist.
 
"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."
 
"The latter interpretation is suggested by a story that has long circulated among college coaches and was confirmed to SI by a former colleague of Tressel's from Earle Bruce's staff at Ohio State in the mid-1980s. 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.""

Ha! What a skeez.
 
There will be more. NCAA will investigate Terrell Pryor and others regarding the automobile scam.

Can you spell......DEATH PENALTY?:eek:
 
I have a hard time believing they'll get something that harsh. We'll probably see something like what USC got.
 
If they are systematically providing car benefits to players, the NCAA will come down as hard as they ever have on any program.

The NCAA has now launched the investigation against Pryor. This is the tip of the iceberg.

You people are having a hard time comprehending how truly corrupt this program really is. Thank God the truth is finally coming out.

Honestly, they make the Iowas and Iowa States of the world look like a bunch of choirboys. This is cheating taken to an art form.
 
We'll see. If they want to significantly reduce the cheating in college football, this would be the program to make an example of......
 
DwayneTwill said:
The NCAA gave SMU the death penalty. OSU will not get that.
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The NCAA came pretty damn close to giving the death penalty to Bama years ago. It was the first time it had been mentioned in the penalty phase since SMU. It will take a whole lot more than what's come out for it to be given out to OSU. But I don't think simply being "OSU" will make them invincible to it.
 
USC still makes a haul in recruiting. If OSU loses 10 schollies they will likely not miss a beat and the next USC or OSU will be even more likely to cheat.

Keep OSU off of TV for every year that the cheating was known to have been committed. I think that would be 8 years?
 
I can see them getting USC type penalties. Scholarship reductions and postseason ban for a few years. I bet Pryor is done at OSU, he won't play this year
 
It is obvious after reading the article why Tressel was asked to "resign". I think Gene Smith is the next to go. He should have fired JT in December of 2010. Ohio State really dug themselves a hole with how they handled this.
 
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