OT: Jim Tressel today
Does anyone else think that the whole Jim Tressel ceremony today was a way for OSU to basically throw up an enormous middle finger to the rest of the world. I can't help but wonder if that they don't land Urban Meyer and/or their season is not going the way it is, he's not there.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:00 PM ^
Yep, I agree. I don't think Ohio State sees anything wrong with what happened, because they're arrogant pricks.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:01 PM ^
Who cares? And if you think the exact same thing wouldn't happen if the whole Fab 5 showed up at a Michigan basketball game, you're crazy.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:06 PM ^
Just thinking aloud. it was kinda bugging me and I'm trying to take my mind off what I just saw.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:07 PM ^
November 24th, 2012 at 5:09 PM ^
November 24th, 2012 at 5:10 PM ^
But the whole Fab Five didn't show up the year after sanctions killed our program. It's ridiculous and arrogant for Ohio to have brought back Tressel for this game. It just highlighted the lack of teeth the NCAA has, and the amount of butt kissing Delaney did during this whole controversy.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:15 PM ^
Oh, hey, yeah... we got drilled again, 10 yrs out of 11, but what about that Tressel guy.
November 30th, 2012 at 1:26 AM ^
Patently untrue. This thread would have been up regardless of the outcome.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:26 PM ^
Ignore any wrong doing that may have occured and act like nothing matters but the result.
While Michigan, on the other hand, takes down banners, and basically refuses to acknowledge the Fab Five until penance has been completed. Which, until Webber admits any culpability, will never happen. A stark difference.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:54 PM ^
November 24th, 2012 at 9:27 PM ^
You guys are a trip. They fired him. You know that right? Fired. As in he is not employed by the university. When you do something dumb, does your mom refuse to acknowledge your existence for forever, or does she scold you, then go back to loving you afterward? Get real. JT did too much for the Columbus-area to let the fact he lied about tattoos ban him from OSU sports forever.
November 24th, 2012 at 9:36 PM ^
That would be news to Gee, Smith and Tressel if true.
"Coach Tressel will retire from The Ohio State University effictive June 30, 2011" - Gordon Gee/Gene Smith
"I am grateful for this opportunity to retire from the university that I so deeply respect and that I will continue to support" - Jim Tressel
November 25th, 2012 at 12:40 AM ^
Okay. He was fired. You really think he wasn't forced out?
November 25th, 2012 at 10:52 AM ^
November 25th, 2012 at 2:00 PM ^
Yes or No, is JT the coach if tat-gate doesn't happen? He was fired.
November 30th, 2012 at 1:41 AM ^
November 24th, 2012 at 5:04 PM ^
November 24th, 2012 at 5:05 PM ^
It was their way to close that chapter, ignoring the fraud, cheating and lies.
Tressel will never coach Ohio ever again.
They opened a new chapter in the rivarly today with Meyer.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:05 PM ^
November 24th, 2012 at 5:06 PM ^
The whole thing was pure OSU, a football factory masquerading as a place of higher learning. Cheering a guy who lied and cheated in order to gain a competitive advantage. Beyond pathetic.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:06 PM ^
November 24th, 2012 at 5:10 PM ^
Uh, the former players picked him up and carried him off the field and the crowd went crazy as it was shown on the big screen. They made sure their feeling for Tressel were known.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:10 PM ^
November 24th, 2012 at 5:29 PM ^
November 24th, 2012 at 5:07 PM ^
Plus honoring Webber plus in 2002 would have been inappropriate just like this was for osu.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:08 PM ^
watching the game, and he thought it was a classless gesture.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:08 PM ^
November 24th, 2012 at 5:54 PM ^
Maurice was there, and Ohio State fans have started to appreciate him more lately.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:08 PM ^
There is no justice when it comes to the NCAA. Period.
The message is: cheat away. There will be no serious penalty.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:09 PM ^
November 24th, 2012 at 5:15 PM ^
November 24th, 2012 at 5:16 PM ^
Have fun in your bowl game, you pecker neck bastar.....oh wait....
Have fun watching Michigan in their bowl while you have nothing to show for skating through a cupcake schedule.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:18 PM ^
The man was one of the best coaches Ohio State has had. Some of his players made some dumb choices, and he attempted to protect them. He paid for it. Why shouldn't they honor him? It's not like his players were on steroids or actually cheating.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:21 PM ^
He enabled the whole thing you fool.
November 24th, 2012 at 5:47 PM ^
He attempted to protect his team's chances of winning a bowl game. It's cut-and-dried. Christ, even he grudgingly acknowledged same. And let's not even get into all the payola that went on during his tenure.
November 24th, 2012 at 6:13 PM ^
November 24th, 2012 at 6:38 PM ^
Paying players is cheating. Covering it up is also cheating.
It wasn't right when it happened with Michigan basketball and it wasn't right when it happened with Ohio football.
November 24th, 2012 at 7:44 PM ^
The whole program was cheating. The cheating helped recruiting - otherwise they would have been less successful. What more do you need?
Honoring Tressel was unbelievably arrogant, but that's what they are.
November 24th, 2012 at 9:31 PM ^
"I'm going to Ohio State because then I can trade rings for tattos valued at $200 instead of the school I really want to go to. The tattoos make it worth it." -Said literally no one ever.
November 25th, 2012 at 10:49 AM ^
November 25th, 2012 at 10:48 AM ^
November 24th, 2012 at 5:22 PM ^
So glad I'll be in Michigan in January
November 24th, 2012 at 6:17 PM ^
It was stupidly ironic to celebrate the legacy of a guy whose indiscretion and lying led to Ohio State's bowl suspension in the first place
November 24th, 2012 at 6:24 PM ^
in the American character that just insists on ugly. OSU fans were displaying it today. The worst thing is that the ugly incident clearly has the backing of the administration.
Glad not to be associated with the place. On the other hand, fans looking at the B1G from outside these days do not get the idea it's a very pretty place.
November 24th, 2012 at 7:06 PM ^
November 24th, 2012 at 8:21 PM ^
Eddie George just declared OSU honoring Tressel as his "Greatest Play of the Day" during halftime of the UCLA vs. Stanford game on Fox.
November 24th, 2012 at 8:21 PM ^
That just shows you how clueless the OSU fans are. Hey let's celebrate the man whose actions have destroyed our chances in competing for the NC... Stay classy...
November 25th, 2012 at 9:09 AM ^
...and that's the problem. They talk about integrity and compliance, but then they laugh about their transgressions when caught and try to act like the victim. If Gene Smith and Gordon Gee worked for UM, the regents would have fired them last year or sooner. Instead, they work for a school that is defined by its football team, so we get life lessons on integrity such as:
Has a guy ever been given a standing ovation at a game where he cost that team a possible chance at the national title?
"I'll let you talk about that, I'll let you handle that," Ohio State AD Gene Smith said with a laugh at halftime. "We anticipated a warm reception for him. We didn't know the players would pick him up."
Smith, in fact, defended his decision to play in a bowl game last year. "We had a lot of people, a lot of experts in the room," Smith said. "We made the best decision we thought we should make at the moment. Do I still disagree with [the NCAA decision]? One hundred percent."
Smith reasoned that the Buckeyes ended up a victim of a more forceful NCAA, a reality that manifested itself in the ruling against Penn State.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/writers/pete_thamel/11/24/ohio-state-michigan-urban-meyer/