and then Toledo? It will be murderous. Don’t forget the 250k fine, for the man who makes 3.5 mil a year.

And I didn’t know the Mud Hens had a football team.*

When was OSU’s last major infraction, anyway…?

• no disrespect to either program

without Tressel OSU is a 45 pt. pick

I realize that these are just OSU’s actions, but gee they seem awfully light given the circumstances. For what its worth, I will give Tressell the benefit of the doubt that he was concerned with confidentiality and potentially tampering with a federal investigation (even though I don’t buy that for a second). That allows me to look past the initial not dealing with it, but where I have a really big problem is when in December, once this was out and the NCAA was making rulings on the players, he should have come forward. The fact that he didn’t, after the FBI had essentially let the cat out of the bag on the investigation anyway, tells me that he deserves absolutely no benefit of the doubt.

Also, since when does a lawyer sending you an email asking for confidentiality entitle said lawyer for that? Afterall, its not as if Tressell is a member of the media that needs to be concerned with burning a source. So what you are telling me is that a lawyer willingly voilated attorney-client privledge, and somehow, thats Tressell’s problem. I don’t think so, given the information, Tressell’s duty isn’t to look at for the ethically challenged attorney, but rather to protect his program. For what its worth, the attorney should be brought before the ethics board of the bar of the State of Ohio in my opinion.

Anyway, I see a bunch of holes in the defense that both Tressell and tOSU is using. I will give them one thing, they did self report this, which I think you have to respect them for. However, given the circumstances, I don’t think the NCAA is going to buy their argument and that this will lead to harsher penalties. Additionally, if I am not mistaken, they had major violations in basketball in 2006, which will place tOSU in the category of repeat offender. I can’t remember (although I could be wrong) any time in which a major infraction occurred in football in which the team in question did not receive a scholarship reduction of any type. Obviously, it could get much harsher than that when you factor in the possibility of the repeat offender window being in play.

Read the email transcripts. Tressel is dead-to-rights. OSU will get slammed, and there’s no way around it. The smoking gun actually exists this time. Sit back, pour a drink, and enjoy the fireworks.

think it was Stewart Mandell that tweeted something to the effect of this incident putting pressure on the NCAA to come down hard because the perception is that the big programs get special treatment. It kinda amazing me a little that people who cover this stuff for a living still have absolutely no clue how the NCAA works. They are a governing body with written policies/procedures/bylaws. They don’t succumb to “pressure” stemming from the public and/or the media 99% of whom haven’t the slightest clue as to how they operate.

Could any of you, for a second, imagine ever seeing this quote coming from Nick Saban?

“…quite honestly, I was scared”

The fact that Pryor was involved (The guy who should be leading the team) and now this quote from Tressel, it appears the rot starts at the top.

Of DEEZ NUTZ