OT: Ohio going to honor 2002 team and Tressel will take part

Are they going to reenact clarrett being arrested as the halftime show? The band can play "Bad Boys".

As part of the halftime show some of the former players are going to compete in a Hatchet Toss.

This is all a ploy by Columbus PD to arrest those guys who have outstanding warrants.  

At least a lot of time had passed for the Gary tribute and if there was to be a Fab 5. This is 2 years removed. Typ[ical Buckeye behavior

At least a lot of time had passed for the Gary tribute and if there was to be a Fab 5. This is 2 years removed. Typ[ical Buckeye behavior

Coach Tress back in the Shoe? Watch out for arc lightning! (Sticklers for the rules and show-cause penalties need not worry, as no penalties will be levied.)

Cooooooper!!!  

Miss you, big guy!  XOXOXO

(2000 Michigan-Ohio game on ESPN Classic right now.)

I could only make it through the first paragraph. So scary how these people think and the excuses they make. Lets go down there and ruin their fake season.

Tressel is a disgrace to college athletics, and Ohio HONORS him!

Everything you need to know about Ohio State as an institution you can glean from their decision to honor jim tressel.

Tressel can come back to be honored for the 10 year anniversary of successfully having guard dogs sniff out the UofM team bus before the game.

What was their punishment really? They upgraded their coaching staff... did they even lose a scholarship? The NCAA is making it very  hard to continue to be a fan.

They brought Woody Hayes back over and over again to dot the eye and be honored at various football games, events and team conferences after his firing.  

Hayes was reprimanded multiple times during his career by Big Ten commissioner Wayne Duke and was publicly disgraced several times because of his sideline antics and violence against the press and players. 

But Hayes won a lot of games for Ohio, including Big Ten titles.

This is the lens through with Ohio fans see the the college football universe. It's not about how you win. It's about the win. Period. 

Michigan just honored Gary Moeller last weekend.  Michigan fans too see much more to Gary Moeller than what happened at a Southfield restaurant 18 years ago.

I'm not saying Tressel = Moeller even remoltely, but both coaches were disgraced.

At some point, the bad stuff is going to be subtracted from the good stuff, because average joe's want to remember the good stuff.  For Ohio, that's winning games and beating Michigan 6 times in a row (actually 7) - something that never happened before.  

Personally, I think it's too soon.  Tressel was fired and received a show cause. Maybe some Ohio seniors will have some mixed feelings about honoring the guy who destroyed their opportunity - all the more poignant if they beat Michigan and finish 12-0.  But this is Ohio's decision.

What do you expect from a school that named its athletic center after someone who punched a kid in the throat?

will actually be honoring Louis Bullock and Maurice Taylor in their own triblute at half time of the game as well.

Is there a team anywhere that doesn't celebrate a tenth anniversary for a national championship season? The classy move would have been for Tressel to say, "I don't want to be a distraction, I'll do my celebrating with my wife and kids at home" or something to that effect. He could even host his own private celebration with the team or invite everyone over for wine coolers. Being the person he is, he obviously took the other route.

For Michigan to bring Coop in to celebrate his career? Maybe we could get a legends patch for #2-10-1

Honoring Tressel does seem to beg belief.  The NCAA was told that Tressel not only lied to the NCAA but that he was the only official who broke NCAA rules.  If so, then why would current officials honor a guy who single-handedly dishonored them?

On the other hand, if he was not the only guilty official, then this honor might make sense.  Maybe it's just another Ohio insurance policy to keep Tressel quiet and not release his emails or write his memoirs.  Remember, Ohio already allowed Tressel to rescind his resignation and retire, giving him hundreds of thousands in retirement and health benefits.  I wonder if he is demanding more.

Wonder if the Columbus Tat shops will be running a 2 for none special for all Ohio players to commemorate the 2002 season?

Of course they are. Was there a doubt?

"Some people will embrace it, some people will not. Some people will feel it's awkward, some people will not." - Gene Smith, quoted in the article

It was this caliber of incisive leadership that was integral to the problem in Columbus, of course, but I would say that it somehow follows that they would allow Jim Tressel to be self-aggrandizing just one more time.

"They may have taken away some of your seasons, Pope Tressel, and they probably should've taken them all away, but it's still real to me, dammit!"

I, for one, welcome the opportunity to beat a zombie tressel team in the way which we were never able to when they were alive and kicking.

Would you be okay with honoring the Fab Five? Me personally, I don't know if I would. Yes, they were a group of talent that will probably never be matched and were icons, but they helped to set the whole basketball program back.

First, the only member of the Fab Five that was implicated in the Ed Martin affair was Chris Webber, so to suggest that all five of them set the whole basketball program back is patently unfair.

Second, I would be OK with honoring the Fab Five together if Webber were to make some kind of apology to the University for the damage he caused. Since Webber still seems to consider himself the exploited party and doesn't seem to believe himself guilty of anything, that won't happen anytime soon.

Third, I would be fine with the other four being honored this season, but I think those guys have already said as a group that wouldn't accept any such invitation that excludes Webber.

This isn't going to happen anytime soon, if ever.

Why are our fans such whiny bitches?  They're not "honoring" Tressel, they're honoring the 2002 national championship team who tressel happened to be a part of.  The NCAA didn't levy any type of disassociation with the program on Tressel like they did with Webber or Pryor.

You people act like he's dotting the "i" for Christ sakes.

So the probation department decided to take urine samples on Nov 24, and all their clients (Tressel, the osu team, and even Urban who escaped Florida's probation) have to meet at the horseshoe.

It's all a part of their terms of probation.

Why not invite Clarette too? Seems appropriate. Webber can't get anywhere near Crisler but Tressel is being invited back. What a joke.

It's Michigan/Ohio State, it's the tenth anniversary of the 2002 Buckeyes team, and it's free temporary tattoo day at Ohio Stadium.

Get there early for your free Ohio State stick-on tattoo, and take part in some half-assed pregame calisthenics with confused Buckeye students!

To Ohio fans, the ends justified the means.  Tressel cheated before the hire and continued for a decade and did so knowingly.  The Fab Five cheated but they did so as kids and Fisher did not know.  Both were against the rules, but I think what Tressel did was worse on many levels but all Ohio fans care about is winning.  You can bet if this scenario had played out at Michigan that Tressel would be treated as a cancer instead of some legend to be honored.  Screw Ohio anyway.

It's best I avoid this one.