Speaking of which, I think the NCAA should make the school forfeit its “The.” That’d be punishment enough as far as I’m concerned: make them stop pretending they’re too good to be Ohio State University.
That’s not how that works - Michigan doesn’t get wins in those games. They still have losses - Ohio State just won’t have the wins.
You people condemning Jim Tressel need to ask yourselves: what makes you so high and mighty? Jim Tressel has written TWO books on faith and integrity! How many books on faith and integrity have you written? Hmm? HMM???
I liked the story about Tressel rigging the raffles at OSU football camp so the star recruits would win.
There surely will be more dirt revealed down the line.
But…but then people might confuse them with Ohio University, that low-rent establishment down in Athens. :eek:
With the killer buds…and female dorm building named “Bush Hall”.
Nobody in Ohio thinks that Ohio U. is “low-rent” compared to Ohio State.
Then it needs to be fixed. I am a completely neutral observer though.
Tressel was dirty all the way back to Youngstown State. He was a rule bender as an assistant at OSU too. If they could find a way to sweep his actions under the carpet, they would have.
Pryor is a target now. He was one of 25 football players with cars provided for him. There are lots of tatoos swapped for equipment and rings.
One thing that gets me in the SI article was Tressel publicly scolding players who violated rules for not following “the little sensors in their heads” while he was privately facilitating and/or covering up for those violations. What a piece of work this guy is.
It’s amazing how much you can get away with if you wear a WWJD bracelet on your wrist and spew religious platitudes. He was a complete fraud, but he got away with it because he pretended to be a Christian and went around telling everybody he had integrity.
But christians aren’t perfect, just forgiven! :rolleyes:
WWJD? Tell all these people not to invoke his name with their mouths full of money changer dick, and that he ain’t buying their ersatz Cleansing of the Temple.
That line is good enough to shamelessly steal!
…bolding mine. Is that covered in the SI article? What did Tressel get away with for being Christian? I think it’s more like OSU fans turned a blind eye to what was going on with the program because…well…they’re OSU fans.
As an Ohio taxpayer, I want the resignations of Ohio State president Gordon Gee and Athletic Director Gene Smith on my desk first thing tomorrow morning.
Yes they do. Athens is a hellhole you brave once a year for a halloween party. Then you return to civilization the next day.
/OSU alum
Incidents like this, for instance (from the SI article):
The article goes on to say that Isaac told SI that Tressel was not only aware of the car, but routinely fixed traffic tickets for him.
Tressel cultivated this pure, unimpeachable reputation largely on the strength of his religiosity. People believed him, even when he was lying his ass off, because of his pious reputation.
The term is “vacating wins”. It’s not “completely reversing the outcome of the game.” As an ND fan who was at the 2005 ND/USC Bush Push game, as much as I wanted the Irish to win, they didn’t. The fact that USC doesn’t get to claim a win either is good enough for me.
Hah. Ohio State is the school that has stadium-sized classrooms and everyone and his hamster can get admission to.
Sounds like every internship and cooperative education agreement in the history of the planet, actually.
Unpaid internships should be illegal too, and there’s an argument that many of them are. Anyway, no one is making millions in revenue on the back of interns, not the way college athletics does.
Well, you’ve got me there. It is a hugely popular college. 
Is that because you think they also knew what was going on or because they put too much trust in Tressel?
The article didn’t say anything about Tressel’s religiosity, and I’ve never heard it mentioned as part of his good character until you brought it up. I just wondered if that’s accurate of the national perception, because here in Ohio he was always called Senator Tressel for his no-nonsense, business-like approach. He never made any huge varbal gaffes or displayed horrible behavior until all this broke loose. Of course, being compared to a senator should have been the first clue that he is a dirtbag.
I was living in Cleveland when Tressel was first hired, and his religiosity was a major talking point in his hiring. Although the real reason his predecessor (John Cooper) was fired was his 2-10-1 record against Michigan, the public excuse for his firing was a series of off-the-field incidents involving his players. Here comes Jim Tressel, the religious father figure that would help these poor, misunderstood teenagers turn into men.
Even now that I’ve moved back to civilization, Tressel’s piety was an obvious part of his reputation. This is a man who wrote a book titled: Life Promises for Success: Promises from God on Achieving Your Best Think about that: he wrote (or, rather, had ghostwritten) a book about how God was helping him win football games!
So, yeah, he has been exposed as a hypocrite of the highest order. If you read the Sports Illustrated article, it becomes crystal clear.