Jim Tressel Resigns

[valaub04]

looking forward to that SI article.

[bamacards]

nebraska has picked a great time to join the big 10---michigan and ohio state having issues

[BigdaddyQH]

First, anyone that thinks that Ohio State will finish in the Top 5 this season really should not be posting in here. How totally ignorant can you be?

Next, many people in here do not understand the ramifications here. By resigning, Tressel forfeited up to 3.5 million dollars that he could have received if he were removed from his coaching duties by Ohio State. Tressel had hired an attorney, who once worked for the NCAA Infraction committee, to defend him from this very thing. Do you really think that Tressel would forfeit 3.5 million dollars if his attorney did not tell him to get out now? Aparently Tressel's attorney knew that Tressel was in deep s**t, as far as the NCAA goes. It is now known that Ohio State, who publically defended Tressel ad nausiem, "encouraged" him to resign. Now do you people still think that Tressel was some kind of saint who just happened to make a mistake? Please.

[Ch3fDan]

What a memorial day.

[JW Cash]

i say take away all the wins he ever had with ohio state

[The Bet Master]

First, anyone that thinks that Ohio State will finish in the Top 5 this season really should not be posting in here. How totally ignorant can you be?

Next, many people in here do not understand the ramifications here. By resigning, Tressel forfeited up to 3.5 million dollars that he could have received if he were removed from his coaching duties by Ohio State. Tressel had hired an attorney, who once worked for the NCAA Infraction committee, to defend him from this very thing. Do you really think that Tressel would forfeit 3.5 million dollars if his attorney did not tell him to get out now? Aparently Tressel's attorney knew that Tressel was in deep s**t, as far as the NCAA goes. It is now known that Ohio State, who publically defended Tressel ad nausiem, "encouraged" him to resign. Now do you people still think that Tressel was some kind of saint who just happened to make a mistake? Please.

Explain why not. No reason why they shouldn't have a chance at it.

[VegasRandy]

ton of morons on here just like any other site max....ignore it and move on.

Funny thing is OSU will probably end up being even better without the conservative system Tressel employed.

That's the sad part for me. Tressel conservative play calling and OSU strong defense was very profitable for me with 2nd half unders. Cashed at a very high rate.

[BigdaddyQH]

Explain why not. No reason why they shouldn't have a chance at it.

Sure. They will have a new H.C., or interim H.C. That means a new offensive philosophy to get used to. They will NOT have Prior, or his merry band of tattoo buddies for the first five games, including games at Miami, and a home game against Michigan State. The first game that these players will be eligable for is at Nebraska. Do you really expect Ohio State to just throw Pryor and company back into the fire and get immediate success, especially at Nebraska? It will not happen. Ohio State will also most likely face a post season ban this season. That has to work on the minds of the players.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

LOL, that's funny.

This resignation was a joke. Infractions were way too minor to call for his firing. Two-game suspension was plenty.

Compare the Ohio St situation to North Carolina's academic fraud. Butch Davis actually caused the value of a UNC diploma to diminish, b/c of what he allowed to go on. 100x worse, easily. F the NCAA. Tressel is a great guy. He should be coaching Ohio St. And I'm a Wisconsin fan.

[venice2222]

I always thought that guy was sleazy.

[BigdaddyQH]

LOL, that's funny.

This resignation was a joke. Infractions were way too minor to call for his firing. Two-game suspension was plenty.

Compare the Ohio St situation to North Carolina's academic fraud. Butch Davis actually caused the value of a UNC diploma to diminish, b/c of what he allowed to go on. 100x worse, easily. F the NCAA. Tressel is a great guy. He should be coaching Ohio St. And I'm a Wisconsin fan.

Another idiotic post by a Big 10 Homer. So you think that players selling items, getting free car loans, purchasing cars at huge discounts, dealing with a Tattoo Parlor whose owner was arrested for Drug Trafficing and Money Laundering, giving away free tickets and sideline passes to games for favors, getting discounts in housing, and covering all of this up are minor violations? Just what in the hell to you consider a major voilation? Murder? The man had to knowingly cheat to finally defeat a SEC team, but you think that he is a "great guy". No wonder Wisconsin could not defeat a MWC team in the Rose Bowl. Just how big of a Big 10 homer can one person be?

[thisisit]

The Buckeye honks are the worst in college football, they won one title in 30 years, and they got a shit call to win that. I learned to love the Miami Hurricanes becasue they only anted to win the natl championship, but when you heard the big ten, and pac ten ten teams all they would say is I want to win the rose bowl lol. This team is in for 5 years of hell.

[jagaf22]

Supposedly, a Sports Illustrated article written by George Dohrmann with additional allegations/details which is to be posted later today on SI.com led to Tressel's immediate resignation today. I wanna see this one.

It's out! http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...&sct=hp_t11_a5

[nli07]

Still can't believe Tressell is gone, wonder if Ohio State gonna go downhill for the neext decade or not.

[jagaf22]

Ignorance is BLISS! I know nothing

[shady610]

Wonder how many wins they vacate.

And on a side note I'm so tired of athletes crying at the money schools make and they are victims.

4 years of schooling is a bill they don't pay and it's still not enough for them.

[chemicalbrother]

this cat rigged a drawing so high-rated recruits would win the prizes. what a scumbag.

[RITZ]

Actually Jim Tressel is one of the nicer guys as I have a friend who knows him well from Baldwin Wallace days,but with the type people he had to bring in to play this is what they do. Poor kids with inner city ways got the guy fired for gangster crap selling their Ohio St stuff for stupid tats.

[thisisit]

the article is out now online, and it is a doozy! The whole school is done for. "goodbye yellow brick road"

[The Bet Master]

the article is out now online, and it is a doozy! The whole school is done for. "goodbye yellow brick road"

Your just a hater from what I can tell by your previous posts. There isn't much new info that has to do with the school directly.

[3PtShooter]

NCAA just as bad,,, as those 5 players should have never played in the bowl game,,,NCAA wanted bowl game to get all the money they could get,,,How long did the NCAA know what was going on and waited for season to be over,,,,Tressel and admin should be punished not the program

[ByeShea]

So you think that players selling items, getting free car loans, purchasing cars at huge discounts, dealing with a Tattoo Parlor whose owner was arrested for Drug Trafficing and Money Laundering, giving away free tickets and sideline passes to games for favors, getting discounts in housing, and covering all of this up are minor violations?

Yes.

Just what in the hell to you consider a major voilation? Murder?

Yes.

The man had to knowingly cheat to finally defeat a SEC team, but you think that he is a "great guy".

I am not a fan of Ohio State, but Jim T did a fantastic job winning there, just as impressive a job he did at Youngstown St. Urban Meyer will not be able to recruit the talent Tressel could. No one will.

And speaking of sec and cheating, just how did Auburn land Cam Newton, anyway?

Big programs have to do what they have to do. Hate the NCAA for tinkering with the best sports product in the land over minor shit. (btw, no matter what, you won't see Oregon go down over piddling bs like Tressel's "scandal". Nike ain't having that.)

Keep the murders to a minimum and we'll see you in September.

[agharah1]

I swear, you bucktards are incorrigible! I thought only SEC fans could show this much tolerance of such egregious and blatant impropriety! (Miami and USC are different because they don't have any real fans.) Did you *really* think Tressel could survive lying to the NCAA when 12 other coaches before him could not? Did you really think he *SHOULD*!?! When Ed Martin was exposed for using illegal gambling money to pay Michigan basketball players, the school fired Steve Fisher so fast people *STILL* think he got a raw deal. Meanwhile OSU fights tooth and nail to prevent Tressel from becoming the first coach *EVER* to get away with lying to the NCAA. Last week when OSU's AD said he didn't think Tressel would be dismissed, I knew that just meant the decision to fire him was being made over his head and that it probably meant the AD would be fired too. I still think that's going to happen, and probably the University President, too.

Let's make one thing perfectly clear: you did not go 9-1 vs. Michigan and win 7 Big Ten Titles and go to 8 BCS games because Jim Tressel was a great coach, you did all those things because you *CHEATED*. Spare me all your sob stories about how "major college sports are all dirty" and "all the players are getting paid" and "we're just the only ones who got caught." We know players are getting money, but its from agents, not drug dealers and illegal gambling. There are still a few pretty straightforward rules left in college sports: don't let players take money from drug dealers and criminals, don't mess with players grades, and don't lie to the NCAA.

Hopefully, whatever happens will not just clean up OSU's programs, but clean up the culture of its fans as well.

[k13]

Don't they all cheat and lie or is that just the "winners"?

[agharah1]

All that being said, however, there's no reason OSU can't bounce back from this. They'll definitely get hit with a scholarship reduction and postseason ban, and maybe some of that Lane Kiffin "players come here to play in the NFL, not the Rose Bowl" nonsense will work for a year or so, but the players know they can get all that with less scrutiny at other schools. In order to recover from this, hiring the right coach is everything.

Exhibit 1: Michigan basketball, which ended up falling apart not because of the scandal, but because they hired a paranoid-schizophrenic who had previously been fired by a D-2 school to be Steve Fisher's successor.

Exhibit 2: Baylor basketball, which experienced a quick turnaround from the Dave Bliss scandal by hiring a shameless recruiter to bring in NBA talent to a school which had no business recruiting blue chip recruits.

[ByeShea]

Let's make one thing perfectly clear: you did not go 9-1 vs. Michigan and win 7 Big Ten Titles and go to 8 BCS games because Jim Tressel was a great coach, you did all those things because you *CHEATED*.

What?

If "cheating" was all it took to get results like that then we'd be seeing similar "cheating" at every school.

Quit being dumber than Clarett.

[ROYAJA8]

Why is everyone hating on Tressel. the guy is a winner and didnot cheat, I didn't hear about him paying players to play for him or paying tattoo parlors to tattoo these guys. It's not his fault his players needed money and wanted tattoos that they sold their shit. The guy is a winner and great coach he will land another good job again.

[Shafted69]

I'm pretty sure this chit goes on at many other major football power houses. The only difference is they haven't, never will, or is yet to spill the beans.

[iwantcougars]

ncaa is going to smash ohio st, with all the sanctions, i dont see that appealing to meyer or patterson in the short term

[teecee]

around the time of the bcs nat'l champ game, i saw cam newton sitting courtside at a suns game. how'd a po' college student get that seat? hmmmm.....

[ouman101]

at the people saying he was cheating...

He was protecting his dumb ass players. He took the fall for the whole university.

[teecee]

should people have to feel as though they need to lie about selling THEIR shit? ray small said he wanted to be able to make a car payment, or not get evicted. the people who tell the players they can't sell their shit, don't have those problems. the ncaa can **** off. i think all players, from all schools, should be able to sell their memorabilia, get free lunches, cars, etc.. why the hell did lebron's mom have a hummer when he was still in school? 'cause motherfukkers knew he'd soon be able to pay off the ride, so there wasn't much risk involved. what's the real issue? it's not fair to the swimmers? the swimmers aren't likely to make enough money to return anything to the benefactor, so why would you give sweet deals to the swimmer? that's life. it's not fair that football players get more love than swimmers, but it is reality. i know that lying is the bigger issue. but you have to lie to do what anyone in their right mind would do; take shit that people are basically throwing at you. the ncaa is garbage.

[Vin_vermillion]

Another idiotic post by a Big 10 Homer. So you think that players selling items, getting free car loans, purchasing cars at huge discounts, dealing with a Tattoo Parlor whose owner was arrested for Drug Trafficing and Money Laundering, giving away free tickets and sideline passes to games for favors, getting discounts in housing, and covering all of this up are minor violations? Just what in the hell to you consider a major voilation? Murder? The man had to knowingly cheat to finally defeat a SEC team, but you think that he is a "great guy". No wonder Wisconsin could not defeat a MWC team in the Rose Bowl. Just how big of a Big 10 homer can one person be?

Big Daddy = you're a USC fan right? I dont think you should have the right to comment on ANY other program as far as being dirty. USC has been the dirties program in all the nation for the past 10 years - BY FAR!

[Vin_vermillion]

I swear, you bucktards are incorrigible! I thought only SEC fans could show this much tolerance of such egregious and blatant impropriety! (Miami and USC are different because they don't have any real fans.) Did you *really* think Tressel could survive lying to the NCAA when 12 other coaches before him could not? Did you really think he *SHOULD*!?! When Ed Martin was exposed for using illegal gambling money to pay Michigan basketball players, the school fired Steve Fisher so fast people *STILL* think he got a raw deal. Meanwhile OSU fights tooth and nail to prevent Tressel from becoming the first coach *EVER* to get away with lying to the NCAA. Last week when OSU's AD said he didn't think Tressel would be dismissed, I knew that just meant the decision to fire him was being made over his head and that it probably meant the AD would be fired too. I still think that's going to happen, and probably the University President, too.

Let's make one thing perfectly clear: you did not go 9-1 vs. Michigan and win 7 Big Ten Titles and go to 8 BCS games because Jim Tressel was a great coach, you did all those things because you *CHEATED*. Spare me all your sob stories about how "major college sports are all dirty" and "all the players are getting paid" and "we're just the only ones who got caught." We know players are getting money, but its from agents, not drug dealers and illegal gambling. There are still a few pretty straightforward rules left in college sports: don't let players take money from drug dealers and criminals, don't mess with players grades, and don't lie to the NCAA.

Hopefully, whatever happens will not just clean up OSU's programs, but clean up the culture of its fans as well.

LMAO Notre Dame fan here - and you are obviously dilusional. Michigan got it's asss whipped plain and simple. year after year. Selling items didn't help OSU do this.

Now that Kelly is here at Notre Dame, the new run of ass whippings will now cntinue, except from the Irish. Dont worry, you can call us cheaters in a few years too.

I know, I know....your ball, your yard, and your going home. WAHHHHHH! Those big Buckeyes beat our ass every year....lol...lets call them cheaters!

Nevermind the fact that Michigan would have gained a much bigger competitive advantage by say - oh I dont know - practicing extra hours???? No No - selling items helps you win on the field....for sure!

[thisisit]

Wonder how many wins they vacate. And on a side note I'm so tired of athletes crying at the money schools make and they are victims. 4 years of schooling is a bill they don't pay and it's still not enough for them.

You say that as though they are allowed to be real students? LOL, they have to go to practice, weight training meetings film study, and are encouraged to not take hard classes so they will have more time for sports. Also the reason they don't let them sell their stuff till the leave college is that if they are allowed them to there would be nothing to stop a booster from paying $20000 for a jersey so that the kid goes to their school.