OSU recieves Notice of Allegations

[clashmore_mike]

Ohio State football: NCAA penalties could be severe | BuckeyeXtra


Tressel and Smith will go before the NCAA to explain its actions August 12.

 

[clashmore_mike]

The Dispatch has also received documents including some of Tressel's email and phone records, but hasn't received all of them yet.

Ohio State football: Tressel contacted FBI, documents show | BuckeyeXtra

 

[ndcoltsfan2010]

It will be interesting to see what happens with this. You never know what the NCAA will do if anything.

 

[BestBIrish47]

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[Irish2015]

They keep saying "the harshest of penalities", but i'm confused...wouldn't that be completing getting rid of the football program?

 

[Riddickulous]

Ouch.

 

[UPMich_NDfan]

So this is 'tatgate', did anything else come out of the smoke that was supposed to blow 'tatgate' out of the water?!

 

[phork]

Tressel is done, cue RichRod. Wouldn't that be the icing on the cake if OSU hired Rodriguez and he beat UM yearly. The offense is already tailored to the spread, perfect fit I would say.

 

[loomis41973]

^

Took the words right out of my mouth.

 

[rikkitikki08]

Slap on the wrist........mark my words

 

[phork]

Might be, but Tressels time is limited imo.

 

[IrishLax]

Tressel ends up being the fall guy, loses his job after this season. O$U hires Meyer. Michigan receives a one year bowl ban and 5 scholarship reduction for three years.

 

[irishtrain]

Drop a bomb on 'em, its why they get recruits-pure and simple. I lived in Columbus for 3 yrs. Its not a clean program. If the 'Irish" did this I'd say the same thing. Stop this mess at any school and get a level playing field.

 

[JadeBrecks]

August 12

What the heck!!!! August 12th!!!!?? How much time do they need?

 

[NDbrbkny]

What the heck!!!! August 12th!!!!?? How much time do they need?

I would host them within the hour

 

[IrishLax]

Jim Tressel situation leaves Ohio State Buckeyes with big decision to make - ESPN

Not a bad article by Pat Forde. I can safely say that if Kelly ever did something like this (i.e. cover up violations, play players that he knew were ineligible and then lie to the NCAA about it) 99% of Irish fans would be calling for his termination even if he had just won a national championship.

 

[clashmore_mike]

What the heck!!!! August 12th!!!!?? How much time do they need?

OSU has 90 days to respond to the Notice and provide the NCAA with the information requested. If you read through the Notice of Allegations it'd be pretty safe to assume OSU will need the full 90 days to get their stuff together.

 

[Fbolt]

Ohio State Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel targeted in NCAA's notice of allegations - ESPN

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- In a sharply worded rebuke of Ohio State's Jim Tressel, the NCAA on Monday accused the 10-year coach with withholding information and lying to keep Buckeyes players on the field who had accepted improper benefits from the owner of a tattoo parlor.

In a "notice of allegations" sent to the school, the NCAA said Monday that the violations relating to the coach are considered "potential major violations."

Tressel a Fall Guy?

It seems clear that the "Sweater Man" uses the sweater vest to hide the dirty program that is OSU. Based on what's been reported and his acknowledgment that he withheld information from the University and from the NCAA, he's not a Fall Guy - He is justifiably right in the center of the Crosshairs.



Although, many thought Kelly should have shouldered more blame for the Declan incident.... Just saying.

 

[JadeBrecks]

Although, many thought Kelly should have shouldered more blame for the Declan incident.... Just saying.

But in this case Tressel actually was part of the problem. If Kelly would have been blamed more he would have just been a fall guy.

 

[Old Man Mike]

The ESPN coverage of this was interesting to me. It showed Herbstreit and Spielman to be the straight-up honest guys that I thought they were. Both of them were very uncomfortable about having to address this stuff about their program, but both said that the violations BY TRESSEL were major infractions of NCAA rules and that something major should happen as a result, and that this was fair.

Spielman expressed his friendship for Tressel and didn't want to say that he believed that he would be fired, but that honestly the NCAA investigation could end in that, although he preferred that it wouldn't.

Herbstreit was also trying "not to go there" but in the end he said that he thought it was likely that the coach would resign. These are paraphrases but if you listen carefully to their words,this is what they were, diplomatically as they could, saying.

Herbstreit went on to say plainly that such things would not get better until OSU stopped recruiting people like Maurice Clarett and Terrell Pryor. Extremely frank about this.

ESPN of course didn't know where things were actually heading, but a local reporter said that the call-in opinion was now shifting to a grudging belief that Tressel had seriously violated the rules.

 

[NewEnglandGuy]

The allegation that Tressel lied to the NCAA is significant. Since 2006, the NCAA has sanctioned 28 schools for violating the ethics bylaw that Tressel did. Of the 13 head coaches involved, only one kept her job. The others either resigned or were fired by their schools.

Most telling stat...good year to be recruiting Ohio...Odenigbo, Washington, Pittman, Jarrod Wilson, William Mahone, and Greg McMullen come on down.

If Kalis or Dunn/Ball want to come too, the more the merrier!

 

[DillonHall]

On the other hand, recruits know that Tressel will try to protect his players...if he's still around...

 

[Irish Insanity]

The ESPN coverage of this was interesting to me. It showed Herbstreit and Spielman to be the straight-up honest guys that I thought they were. Both of them were very uncomfortable about having to address this stuff about their program, but both said that the violations BY TRESSEL were major infractions of NCAA rules and that something major should happen as a result, and that this was fair.

Spielman expressed his friendship for Tressel and didn't want to say that he believed that he would be fired, but that honestly the NCAA investigation could end in that, although he preferred that it wouldn't.

Herbstreit was also trying "not to go there" but in the end he said that he thought it was likely that the coach would resign. These are paraphrases but if you listen carefully to their words,this is what they were, diplomatically as they could, saying.

Herbstreit went on to say plainly that such things would not get better until OSU stopped recruiting people like Maurice Clarett and Terrell Pryor. Extremely frank about this.

ESPN of course didn't know where things were actually heading, but a local reporter said that the call-in opinion was now shifting to a grudging belief that Tressel had seriously violated the rules.

^THIS

I was actually impressed w/ their interviews. Both danced a bit at first but when it came down to it were not affraid to be honest. Also they mentioned something about Tressel contacting a FBI agent today. What was that about? I missed it.

 

[Old Man Mike]

Whoever was being talked to at the time stated that the FBI agent has stated that their conversations had nothing to do with the current allegations, and suggested that this element is probably a red herring [didn't use that term but that's the meaning].

 

[irishtrain]

^THIS

I was actually impressed w/ their interviews. Both danced a bit at first but when it came down to it were not affraid to be honest. Also they mentioned something about Tressel contacting a FBI agent today. What was that about? I missed it.

Speilman is a stud and a fine man, Herbie I can do without. If Speilman is hurting its bad-I respect his loyalty to the program and his opinion. Lastly I remember many things when I lived there besides Clarette. Like the time A J Hawk had big $$$$ stolen from his apartment and it was said that it was $$$ his parents gave him and from a summer job. Seems to me it should have been in a bank but if you do that there is a record. I think the've been on the other side of the law for longer than Tressel has been there but never been caught. Why would a guy not put big $$$$ in the bank.

 

[BGIF]

Whoever was being talked to at the time stated that the FBI agent has stated that their conversations had nothing to do with the current allegations, and suggested that this element is probably a red herring [didn't use that term but that's the meaning].

I understand in Columbus itr's called a Scarlet Buckeye.

 

[Old Man Mike]

As the Michigan Botany book says: "A Buckeye is a disagreeable nut which hangs in trees, falls down in the road, and has no apparent purpose but to produce other Buckeyes. Corollary: a Scarlet Buckeye is one with a red face".

 

[NeuteredDoomer]

Ohio State Buckeyes coach Jim Tressel targeted in NCAA's notice of allegations - ESPN

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Although, many thought Kelly should have shouldered more blame .... Just saying.

Move on.

I simply do not understand the idiotic mentality that would equate the two in the same post and worry about what internet weasels will "think.".

Just sayin...

 

[Old Man Mike]

I'm completely with Neutered on this reiterated @#&# about Kelly. These sorts of posts are getting offensive, which I suppose is the real intent of the persons who insist on continuing to infest this board with such things.

 

[Ben E.]

funny enough, there is a growing group of buckeye fan boys clamoring for urban meyer to replace tressel. so they want to replace a coach that has at least tried to appear honest with one that could care less about honesty??? lol