Tony Barnhart: Tressel Needs to Go
What sort of arrogant hypocrisy does it take, for a Free Press writer to complain about honesty and professional standards?
This is the same newspaper that gave us Mitch Albom's column about Mateen Cleaves and Jason Richardson at the NCAA Tournament.
The same newspaper that published Rosenberg's and Snyder's "false and misleading" diatribe on Stretchgate.
The same newspaper that Drew Sharp calls home. Even after Sharp used phony "slavery" quotes to slander Rush Limbaugh during the talks to sell the Rams.
When Michael Rosenberg pronounces that Jim Tressel ought to be fired, you know then that there is reason for doubt. This is the newspaper that is lecturing Ohio State on honesty and professionalism? Really?
...now.
When Michael Rosenberg pronounces that Jim Tressel ought to be fired, you know then that there is reason for doubt. This is the newspaper that is lecturing Ohio State on honesty and professionalism? Really?
I always read your posts as earnest, heartfelt and stragely misguided. But that's just über-hyperbolic.
Everyone knows it is not possible to slander Rush Limbaugh.
get right it's not not possible. the wording you are looking for is unpossible
Do you get all your content from Eleven Warriors?
Shoe, I dig your posts for the most part, but does anyone around here really give a shit about what rosenberg thinks, much less feel the need to link to it? Yes, I'm still bitter as we all should be.
...crack me up. Of course you shouldn't care what Rosenberg has to say and of course it's ok to still be bitter with him. He does punch dolphins, after all.
The point is (as was stated later in the thread), it's hard to find any columnist who doesn't think that Tressel should be fired.
Also: What's with this "I dig your posts for the most part."? Only blind devotion will do.
The title of this thread would be more accurate to read "{INSERT COLUMNIST NAME HERE}: Tressel Needs to Go"
Guy is getting dragged through the mud. It's a bad day for OSU.
I'll work on that!
It is very apparent that you were probably a great leader in the service. no /s
Any new article like this is going to make me smile just the same. I might have just found a counterexample for diminishing marginal utility.
as a model to describe Tressel's approach to honesty/integrity.
Too little = sanctions (oops)
Too much = better compliance, more academically qualified and high character players, fewer thugs, fewer wins, more losses
Just right (feigned integrity) = championships
What I need to do is an indifference curve analysis and find out what my BAB is.
Go easy with the lingo.
Haha...best available bundle. Basically which set of goods maximizes utility for a consumer. An indifference curve just measures expected utilities for different bundles.
In this case I'm thinking...a show-cause the night before he returns for the sixth game, leading Pryor to immediately sign with an agent and publicly auction off everything he's ever gotten at OSU.
Too much?...nah.
I didn't realize you were still in law school, BTW. I always figured you were practicing.
I went back to school to study law after it became clear that my preferred career was not going to work out.
Now I just need to pass the bar exam.
What the hell am I doing on MGoBlog?
In other breaking news.. water is wet
I think 98% people outside of columbus realize the fact that if st. jimmy stays the university is going to get hit hard and they will be looked at as incompetent.
You're dealing with deluded Buckeyes here. The reality is their collective delusion and football psychosis runs bone deep from the lowliest Buckeye bred trucker and 7-11 clerk all the way up the President of the University who made that moronic comment about Tressel firing him (so not the time or place for that). Those crazy pricks may just try to keep him. I just wouldn't put it past them. Anywhere else except maybe Alabama with Saban would be concerned with their credibility enough to break the coach off before that Show Cause hearing.
If i lie to my boss, guess what happens, i would get FIRED!! Same should happen to Tressel.
Is that Canadian spelling?
Bite me, Barnhart. Because Tressel was a cheater, that means the other 10 teams in the conference are unethical and now we are officially worse than the SEC when it comes to morals?
Nice try.
Apparently everyone now thinks that this proves that the B1G is as bad as the SEC because, you know, Ohio State is our whole damn conference. Forget the rampant, ubiquitous, despicable cheating in the SEC.
It would be more difficult to find a columnist not calling for Tressel's job today.
Its so nice to be able to read articles like that. Down here in columbus, all you hear is how it isn't that bad... The local talk radio station would say that the latest development was nothing new, and basically inferred that it was not a big deal. Then Earle Bruce came on the show and talked about how Tressel doesn't believe in lying and obviously didn't mean to do that given his track record and that he shouldn't be punished that bad, let alone be fired. It just pissed me off so bad I ripped my headphones out and turned red hot.
must be a moron. if Tressel doesn't believe in lying, you would expect that the second time, or maybe the third time, that he lied about this he might have stopped short and thought, "Oh, shit, I'm Jim Tressel and I don't believe in lying." What an idiotic thing to say.
From what I've gathered, he is. The radio host seemed to just be resepectful and say "yeah" as Bruce spoke, just to show he was paying attention, but even he didn't buy what Bruce was saying I don't think.
It's intellectually lazy IMO. Why on earth do you take one team from a conference and label the whole conference? This is why I HATE "conference" talk. It always devolves into this kind of lazy thinking. I had little use for Tony prior to this, now even less....if that's possible. I get that they do this to generate traffic, but any writer worth their salt can do so without resorting to this garbage.
I agree. It is amazing that people can actually make a living by making such poor arguments in public.
Tony barnharts a bitch to me he was talking shit about OSU just as much as he was the rest of the big 10 was crybabies and sucked. Fuck him..
Nothing screams class like calling a person with whom you disagree "a bitch" and saying "fuck him."
Go you.
I'm quickly growing tired of your sophomoric posts. Take it to MLive if this is all you're going to offer.
I'm quickly growing tired of your sophomoric posts. Take it to MLive if this is all you're going to offer.
Magnus I 3 you
The whole point of a blog is to share your own opinions. In my opinion he stepped over the line by calling all big 10 teams out because of one coaches actions. Maybe we should come to you to aprove our comments before theyre posted since youre on here so much.
You should keep yours to yourself. Just something to think about between recess and gym class.
Actually Im a Michigan Graduate spring 07
Actually Im a Michigan Graduate spring 07
And if your opinions include calling people bitches and telling him to fuck himself for sharing his own opinion, then they're not really necessary.
Have you noticed how I've been able to voice my dissenting opinion without resorting to calling you a "bitch" or telling you to "fuck yourself"? Pretty neat.
Your cool, hey why did I hear from somebody that you have like 6 accounts ouch! find something better to do with your time.
Yes, I have six accounts. Because I'm afraid of what people might think of "Magnus." I'm extremely image conscious.
"If a Southern football coach did what Tressel did, which was to engage in an orchestrated coverup of potential NCAA violations, the calls for his firing would have been immediate and would have come from sea to shining sea, especially from the Big Ten. And they would be right."
I don't understand what he's trying to say here. Is he implying that people are defending Tressel? I haven't seen that outside of Columbus. Its like he's trying to act outraged over an issue that he's imagining.
The Big Ten commisioner?
I guess in his world, because OSU hasn't fired Tressel as of yet, that makes the Big 10 the dirtiest conference in the country. And it will take attention away from the SEC and their cheating, their probations, their investigations, their oversigning, their winning a national title with an ineligible QB, Urban Meyer having 60 players arrested in 5 years, etc.
A very jackass type statement to make since the ethics of the other 10 teams in our conference should not be judged on whether or not OSU fires Tressel.
I havent heard anyone defend Tressels actions outside of the state of Ohio (hell they are even running away from this guy). The other ten schools are throwing jabs at OSU while they are against the ropes.
The best possible outcome would be Tressel resigning before the season would be perfect. How the hell would osu find a coach for the 2011 season? Interim.. uh, right.
And while Urban Meyer seemed to be his successor following the 2011 season, he is not ready to cut his vactaion short and jump on a sinking ship in the summer.
Come on JT, do the right thing and resign before the season starts (you owe it to the school you love so much to spare them all the negative media attention, and leave them high and dry w/o a suitable coach)!
Does anyone really believe Tressel and Ohio State will fall on the sword? I fully expect them to circle the wagon, take their slap on the wrist, and promise to "never let anything like this happen again."
They've sold their soul to the devil and are completely content with their decision.
They have been dragging their feet and leading the talk about how this isn't that big of a deal, and they have been pretending as though they have been fully cooperative about everything (and that they were going to self-report this before the media broke the story)...
There is no honor in this program, nor any kahunas in the administration to take action.
Tresell will be back.
Only when I see it, will I believe it.