tOSU Excuse Bingo

I was really hoping for an actual bingo square and a game involving those things we aren't supposed to talk about.

Also don't forget: 

It's the fault of the media.

and

Tressel was only trying to help the players he loved like his own children...it had NOTHING to do with cheating.

He wanted to protect them from drug dealers.

oh yeah and this is my fav:

Tressel's resignation only is further proof of how much integrity he has. 

More fun than the jump to conclusions mat....

Mark May has been geeting a lot of blame as well along wit the media in general.

is going Krakatoa on ESPN right now. "It's too bad that THIS HAPPENED to Tressel," "All he was doing was protecting his players," "This ONE TIME his kids broke the rules and he just didn't tell anyone," "Urban Meyer," and the funniest one of all "Tressel resigned." 

Coach Tress fell victim to a witch hunt, orchestrated by the media. In the end he always stood for the "kids".

He hasn't done half of what the SEC coaches have done. 

I actually kind of agree with #1.  Tressel did have some greedy players like Pryor, Holmes, ect.  It was his fault that he recruited them though and that he kept the information from the NCAA.  I also mostly agree with #2.  I don't beleive that sanctions will hurt OSU that much.  They just have too much talent in their state and the worse I see them being in all this mess is between 7-5 and 8-4.  

I was reading one of the OSU blogs, and it seemed everyone was saying the B1G is gonna regret OSU getting rid of Tressel, because he actually took his foot off the pedal when OSU was up.  And supposedly their next coach won't be so nice and will run up the score.

There's also the ever popular "everyone murders"!

TSIO is one of Urban Meyer's three "dream jobs."  While his family wanted him around, they will get sick of him after one year and tell him to go find a job and get out of their hair.  The results would be terrible for Michigan fans. 

Our best hope is that the sanctions are so bad that Meyer doesn't want the job.

The levels of apologism and rationalization circulating the OSU blogosphere are nothing short of spectacular.....If these yocals put as much time and creativity into writing a book as they are in creating a positive narrative about thier fallen angel, they could win a pulitzer. 

Didn't you all hear? Don Shula and Bear Bryant already agreed to take the job.

/s

From Deadspin comments:



Jim Tressel, Chief Financial Officer with The Ohio State Corporation announced his resignation Monday in the wake of a bonus scandal in the company's Football Division. Tressel had been instrumental in raising The Ohio State Corp. stock price during his 10+ year tenure. Under his reign the profitable Football Division was greatly expanded. He also eliminated a number of unprofitable divisions such as English, Art, Philosophy, Life Science, Psychology, Sociology, Medicine, Journalism, Engineering, Religious Studies, Computer Science and Veterinary Studies. Tressel also streamlined company operations by merging the Law and Football Divisions in 2002 in a bid to eliminate redundancies.

I think those who attempt justification of Tressel's actions are a vocal segment, but only a part of the overall picture.  My experience, from spending about half of my year in the Columbus area, is very different inthat most of my OSU alum friends, , in large part support the resignation. Remember, when the story about Tressel's lying broke, tOSU student newspaper called for Tressel to be fired. If you actually attend a university and care about your degree, it means something when your school is constantly in the crosshairs of negativity which, I suspect, after tomorrow's SI story, won't be getting any better.

For what it is worth, per the Columbus Dispatch, the fans are voting 60/40 in favor of the resignation.

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2011/05/30/hotissue_30.html

Haters.  The answer is always haters.

Right now the Kubler Ross five stages of grief apply to fans of tOSU football

1. Denial - "nothing happened", "there is no to see here... move along"

2. Anger - "Why us?" "We didn't do nuthin" "Everybody else is doing the same thing"

3. Bargaining - "OK, we'll suspend the players 5 games and make Tressl give up some bucks." "OK, we'll suspend Tressl 5 games as well."

4. Depression - "Why now" "What now" "Youngstown, Maurice Clarett and now this"

5. Acceptance - "OK, we'll have to fix things and prevent things from getting this bad in the future"

These stages do not occur to all sufferers and do not always follow this sequence. Most experience at least two and typically oscillate between two, i.e. anger and denial.

When Tress said he would "keep pounding the kids" he didn't really want to hurt the players because he is all about the players and that statement should in no way be interpreted as a desire to hit one of his students, nor should it be understood as an admission of performing sodomy on his players. 

Yes we tried to bury it, but everyone does it. Also: This is shocking because it shows how broken the college football system it, it isn't Tressel's fault he had to cheat to survive.

While this doesn't excuse their behavior, I pretty much agree with this. College football is likely far more corrupt than anyone wants to believe. Its saving grace is that the NCAA doesn't have subpoena power, which means that players can just refuse to participate in an investigation. Because of that, it's often not hard for programs to cover their tracks.

I think most coaches really want to run a clean program, but don't really know how to get all the shadiness out. It probably takes an extremely strong-willed coach - a guy like Bobby Knight - to frighten his players (and the community) into total compliance. Most coaches probably don't have that in them, so the corruption sets in. I look at Tressel as being similar to Steve Fisher - probably a well-intentioned guy who just doesn't have it in him to drop the hammer on all the hangers-on.

No it wasnt...it was for YOU and your WIN column...what a bunch of BS from Ohio St

Eleven Warriors: 

"What infractions? Forgetting to report that some kids sold their own shit to keep them safe? Unless there is more that we have yet to hear about I call bullshit! It's hard for me to believe that this is what's best. I can see why, I guess, but it still pisses me off."

Ah yes, he forgot. I mean he had all that laundry that day and his favorite show was on TV. Shoot, slipped his mind. And he wasn't covering for them, he was keeping them safe. Awesome choice of words.

Arogance seems to surround OSU.