TatGate Question: When was tOSU going to unleash this bombshell?
From a PR point of view, tOSU lost control of this story when someone in their athletic office ratted them out to Yahoo. So what do you think was the plan for disclosure?
Around here, the traditional choice would be opening day of the MLB season, something that will knock it off the front pages asap. No such luck in Columbus however.
Um this could have probably been discussed in an existing thread. That is all.
I don't think they were planning on releasing it at all. Yahoo forced their hand.
I've thought the same thing. Was there no plan to release it? Did that force someone at OSU, someone with an actual conscience, to leak the information to Yahoo?
thats when
I'm sure they would not have bothered saying anything until they got word that Yahoo was going to bust them.
They had already told the NCAA in February, so it wasn't going to stay hidden.
I assume they would have released it at a date chosen by some highly paid media consultant.
I figure it has to be someone inside the OSU administration, and presumably someone who was disgusted by Tressel's actions and the administration slow playing their investigation.
Not surprisingly, the original Yahoo! piece refers to the source only as "the source."
It could just as easily have come from the NCAA.
They had hoped to get their end of things wrapped up before Gene Smith left for Indianapolis to be part of the tournament selection committee. They would have had to have talked about it, with or without Yahoo, in the near future.
Maybe Jim Tressel can answer some of our questions while Gene Smith is away in Indianapolis this weekend and won't be able to cut him off.
I don't know, but I'm glad they didn't get the chance. Once someone else lets the cat out of the bag it's incredibly hard to say, "We were just about to say that!" and have people believe you.
Please do not refer to them as tOSU, that's disgusting.
If anything it's tsio
That State Is Ohio?
Agreed. It's a nickname OSU gave to themselves.
They cannot have planned to have the press conference until after figured out what their story was going to be, which had not happened yet. That press conference had all the earmarks of something that was forced upon them prematurely, before they had their stories straight. Hence, we get Tressel lying about confidentiality when it was not mentioned for two weeks after the initial email. Lying about not knowing with whom he should talk. Lying about doing nothing because he was worried about the kids. (WTF? You are worried so you do nothing?) Nope, Yahoo flushed them out and they did not get a chance to sit down with counsel and go over "OK, someone asks you this--what do you say?" And wouldn't you know it, the press conference just exacerbated their problems by compounding the lies, which made the slap on the wrist punishment seem even more preposterous.
Thank you, Yahoo! Doing the Lord's work.
My guess is that they would have let the cat out of the bag during halftime of next year's bowl game.
We do know this, it certainly was put off till after SIGNING DAY.
March 10th, 2011 at 11:38 PM ^
They might have released it when the statute of limitations had passed....maybe.