Jason Lloyd still has Tressel's blood on his keyboard, great article
Jason Lloyd is a columnist for the Akron Beacon Journal, he is well known especially in northeast Ohio and the Cleveland area. He was one of my favorite sports columnists.
Jason absolutely kills it in this article, and before he wrote it he even tweeted, "Attention OSU apologists: Don't read tomorrow's column in the ABJ. Then we'll kiss and make up before next Cavs game. Deal?"
Some quotes :
-"Typically, lying to all of those people is a fireable offense — it's even written into his contract as such. But Tressel is returning to work today as the football coach at Ohio State University because of six consecutive Big Ten championships, a 9-1 record against Michigan and a national championship soiled in the same stains that cloak the program again today."
-"School officials didn't discover the e-mails until stumbling upon them while investigating a separate matter. Otherwise, it's fair to assume Tressel never was going to come forward with his knowledge or the e-mails.
He would've simply strolled through life and pleaded ignorance, just as he did when Clarett was cashing in with cars and Isaac and Troy Smith were taking cash payments from boosters."
For your reading pleasure:
Their president may have his head burried to the shoulders in Tressel's ass, but there is no way that the elected officials of the state can possibly be okay with this much bad press/illicit activity.
They're elected officials from the state of OHIO.
Politicians only act when that action has an affect on their re-election. Coming out against Tressel is a career ending political move. There is no morality in politics.
or do you mean members of the OSU Board of Regents?
If you mean politicians, I can tell you with zero equivocations that none of them will touch this with a 10ft pole(I happen to be married to a state government official, herself an OSU grad, saddened by this..or perhaps annoyed with my laughter).
From what she says, most politicians figure that adressing this issue can only harm, and will in no way help their re-election prospects...and since this is a no politics blog I will not add what I think of the fact that all politicians really seem to care about is re-election
I read this earlier - it's a good one and so true!
I am so giddy, like a kid in a candy shop! BUT, I have to keep reminding myself that it's quite possible the impotent NCAA will do close to nothing. Then I get bummed out. Then I need another article like this one. It's a vicious circle!
I can read the comments on articles like this for hours and hours. The blind rage OSU fans have towards anyone who doesn't think that this isn't a big deal and that it's a closed book just crack me up.
Schneaudenfreaud in full effect :)
Those comments are pretty ridiculous. They somehow think they're getting screwed in all this, while the rest of the country thinks last nights press conference was a joke and the NCAA should bring the hammer down. I can understand being biased towards your team, but at least try to have a little common sense
The Comments section of that article is priceless as well. They of course range in spectrum from the "Blind-Tressel-Is-God" comments to the "Did Tressel kick your puppy, Jason?" and to the "welcome to D-1 college football everyone does it now stop throwing our BELOVED program under the bus, asshole" comments.
Columbus went from DEFCON 4 to DEFCON 3 overnight, Im sure of it. We need to get the Michigan National Guard to the border now so they are ready for when the bus-boy/trucker/janitor/OSU alumni start marching north claiming a Michigan-led conspiracy.
"Jason, you're a tool. Oh good grief... A coach at a multi-million dollar major college football program found out that players got tattoos and stayed quiet about it. LOL. Are you kidding me? You play your talent. You win games. This isn't an after school special Nancy boy. I support Tressel as does the majority of this state. Unlike your this isn't over attitude, NOTHING more is going to happen. There is way too much money on the line. Grow up and pay attention to the world around you. And get your Ohio University sweatshirt off and realize that the Buckeyes truly are THE Ohio State University."
From SouthBeach11:
"TRESSEL DIDNT GIVE ANY OF THESE PLAYERS ANYTHING TO PLAY FOR OSU! NO COMPETETIVE ADVANTAGE WAS GAINED BY ANY OF THIS YOU BIASED DORK!"
There is so much denial dripping from those comments you could almost drink it.
POINT MISSED!
Ignorance/Retardation at it's most extreme level...Welcome to the state of o-h-i-o
Got to hand it to the guy for going big.
This is one of the best pieces I have ever read. First, he completely dismantles Tressel's BS. The confidentiality request was so tiny, so insignificant, that to hide behind it is insane. To say he couldn't suspend the players because it would arouse suspicion to the investigation, why not do the "violation of team rules" penalty. The article just dismantles all of his "defenses" in an epic way.
Furthermore, to write this in an Ohio paper, I mean wow. This guy has balls that most men only talk about. Seriously, bravo to this dude.
Too bad JT doesnt have tiger blood, bro
Great piece. Nice to see it reported without any slant. The Freep could learn alot from reading his article.
I have to listen to the sports radio in Ohio (heaven help me) and St. Tressel is getting killed...even the many apologists understand they have crossed the line.
Gee's performance last night solidified that.
Is it that after they vacate 2010 they will lose the one win against the sec
This is a great piece.
I have something that's OT from this thread, but I can't post new topics on the board yet :(.
Brady Hoke and his staff held a luncheon today for the media. Does anyone have any inside scoop on what happened there?
Chengelis was tweeting about the lunch: http://twitter.com/#!/chengelis
If Tressel had just played Tressel ball and punted these emails off, he wouldn't be possibly setting the program back several years and putting his own job and reputation in jeopardy. Oops...
is it just me or have the planets begun to realign for Michigan. Basketball sweeps little brother, looks to be headed to the tournament and has a bright future. Hockey is, well, Michigan hockey. Football has harkened back to the anti-spread and OSU looks like it is going to suffer the same fate as William Wallace once Tressell is disemboweled by the NCAA while screaming, "Ignorance!!!.
Life is indeed good and just.
I've actually been impressed by how a lot of the Ohio media has handled this: very little kowtowing. Now if only they'd be more enterprising in their reporting. They don't do anything until "outside agitators" break stories.