Video: Tressel's full statement
I realize I'm about half a day late with this but those of you in the Central Asian steppe or with the Denard cable package may appreciate this. I wish there was some way to send a video to an entire state.
I do not understand how his silence could have anything to do about the safety of his players. The last thing I would think is if I stay silent and allow my players to keep playing without any punishment that it would be the safest thing to do when it involves a drug dealer's federal investigation. He should have at least tried to get some additional legal guidance from the school. He was definitely more worried about winning than his players safety.
This is what I heard jimmy say "I have received inside emails that we are going to be hit hard by legal and ncaa violations. Therefore, I went into action and deleted all of my emails that I have received and did everything to save my ass and save this dirty program. I did everything I could to try and cover this up in the best interest of my job and this shitty university. I obviously got caught and will continue to try to sneak by the ncaa's back and get away with more shit. You all have a good day."
The April 2 email is information only.
Confidentiality is not asked for until April 16. Two weeks of saying nothing to nobody. Really? Really?
BTW, first time I've not seen Tressel wearing scarlet or grey.
First, you're correct, the writer doesn't ask for confidentiality at first, but more importantly, there is no such thing as a "confidentiality" privilege. What they're trying to do is confuse the attorney client privilege with Tressel intentionally not reporting this. The A/C privilege prevents an attorney, not a client, from disclosing information that the attorney recieved from the client. Here, Tressel is not an attorney, so he is not prevented from disclosing the information at issue.
Second, what's more important, Tressel ADMITS THAT HE LIED to the NCAA and OSU compliance office on three separate occassions: (1) he signed the NCAA Certificate of Compliance Form on September 13, 2010, indicating he has reported any knowledge of possible violations to the institution; (2) he did not report the information in the e-mails or his knowledge of potential violations to the institution in early December 2010 when he initially learned from University officials on or around December 9 that information had been received from the Department of Justice regarding the student-athletes potentially violating NCAA legislation for selling memorabilia and receiving discounted services; and (3) he did not report the information in the e-mails or his knowledge of potential violations on December 16, 2010, when asked by institutional officials about his knowledge of the student-athletes' involvement in these activities.
Third, his penalties should include a vacation of the Sugar Bowl win, a 6 game suspension (the same suspension as the players +1 for lying about it to the NCAA and Complaiance Office in the three previously mentioned occassions) (or 4 of 8 BIG games); a $1.5 million fine.
The NCAA will levy more penalties than OSU has, but perhaps a more important question is whether the BIG will levy any suspensions for conference games hopefully for first 4 conference games, which could take them out of contention for the 1st ever BIG Title Game.
Boy, that's a stiff penalty when the Sweatervest can't be on the sideline for their Akron and Toledo stomp downs. Gimme a break!
I was out and couldn't hear it live. Followed what he said in the thread here.
What the hell is with his round about way of starting and trying to gain sympathy. Talking about the other emails they get and what has happened to the other players he has had.
Sly, scummy, trying to keep that image up and not address the issue at hand.
The vindication that comes from this story feels so great. Hopefully the NCAA follows up.