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<p>^^ No words from him yet except the AD’s official announcement of JT’s resignation. If anything, he should be concerned with his own job security at TOSU. </p>

<p>[With</a> Jim Tressel out, Gene Smith and Gordon Gee should be next - NCAA Football - Sporting News](<a href=“http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/feed/2010-12/osu-suspensions/story/with-jim-tressel-out-gene-smith-and-gordon-gee-should-be-next]With”>http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/feed/2010-12/osu-suspensions/story/with-jim-tressel-out-gene-smith-and-gordon-gee-should-be-next)</p>

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<p>I doubt anything happens to Gee. I think he arranged this over a dead news time.</p>

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<p>“But even with all the winning record against Michigan been erased, there is no doubt in my mind that Wolverines just weren’t as good as the Buckeyes on the field throughout most of the last decade.”</p>

<p>No doubt about that. I do recall that Michigan went 9-1-1 against the Buckeyes in the ninetees. Those Buckeye teams were MUCH better than most of the Michigan teams that have lost to OSU in this century. Michigan was way better back then!</p>

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<p>“I doubt anything happens to Gee. I think he arranged this over a dead news time.”</p>

<p>Maybe a dead news day, but not time. Everybody in the world of sports is talking about it barrons. You should be thrilled. This practically guarantees your team a spot in the B10 championship game for the next few years! TOSU is going to be on probation for sure.</p>

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<p>No doubt about it. But what we’ll never know is how much of that advantage on the playing field was the result of an illegal recruiting advantage stemming from top recruits being offered illegal benefits with a wink and a nod from Tressel. To my mind the knowledge that players like Clarett, Troy Smith, Terrelle Pryor and probably many others were on the take, possibly lured to OSU with offers of cars, women, cash, tattoos, and other goodies, taints every single OSU victory of the Tressel era. Watch the game film and gloat, if you like, but these were cheaters, plain and simple. That makes the victories pretty hollow.</p>

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<p>^^“Tressel has put OSU in a deep hole, but the reports now coming out indicate he’s run a dirty program all the way back to his days at Youngstown State, and it’s hard to believe OSU didn’t know that when it hired him. And if the AD and President didn’t know this stuff was going on, that’s pretty much a textbook case of “loss of institutional control,” one of the deadliest NCAA offenses.”</p>

<p>It reads:</p>

<p>“Rich Rod has put Michigan in a deep hole, but the reports now coming out indicate he’s run a dirty program all the way back to his days at West Virginia, and it’s hard to believe Michigan didn’t know that when it hired him. And if the AD and President didn’t know this stuff was going on, that’s pretty much a textbook case of “loss of institutional control,” one of the deadliest NCAA offenses.” </p>

<p>We need not look too far to prove my point. For instance, if my memory serves me correctly, didn’t Michigan $ pay-off $ West Virginia after the school officials accused former HC Rich Rod of “shredding the files” as the Moutaineers threaten to report the misdemeanor to the NCAA in order to save Bill Martin and Mary Sue Coleman’s job??</p>

<p>Let me refresh everyone’s memory if you have no clue what I am referring to:</p>

<p>"West Virginia officials are wondering if assistant coaches aren’t all that Rich Rodriguez took with him to Michigan. They claimed that he has also destroyed all or most of the paperwork files relating to every player on the current Mountaineer roster and virtually all of the activities conducted by the program over the past seven years.</p>

<p>Soon after returning to work after the Fiesta Bowl a little more than a week ago, the staff at the Puskar Center found that most of the files — including all of the player files — that had been stored in Rodriguez’s private office were missing. In addition, all of the players’ strength and conditioning files in the weight room were gone.</p>

<p>“It’s unbelievable. Everything is gone, like it never existed,’’ said a source within the athletic department, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “Good, bad or indifferent, we don’t have a record of anything that has happened.’’</p>

<p>According to the source, the files in Rodriguez’s office that are now missing included everything from records regarding summer camps — financial and otherwise — to data on boosters, recruiting and most everything related to activities within the program during Rodriguez’s seven years at WVU.</p>

<p>Most disturbing, though, is the absence of all of the players’ personal files, which included, among other things, contact information, scholarship money awarded, class attendance records and records on personal conduct and community service, be it positive or negative." </p>

<p>Source: [Rich</a> Rodriguez Shreds WVU… Literally](<a href=“AOL - News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com”>AOL - News, Politics, Sports, Mail & Latest Headlines - AOL.com)</p>

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<p>Well, Michigan did settle this one $$$ (actually more than one million…) before it went full-blown… :p</p>

<p>Should I continue?.. This is really not constructive imho. But, just so everyone here understands that I am here to defend my beloved buckeye to the end. :)</p>

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<p>So it was Saints vs Sinners?</p>

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<p>I do not know who is a saint in this world. We are all sinners in my eyes…</p>

<p>But, as the old saying, if you dare to pull it, you better be prepared to finish it!!</p>

<p>An eye for an eye makes the whole wolrd blind… lol</p>

<p>That said, I do admire this guy. He is both wise and classy thus far! ;-)</p>

<p><a href=“http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2011-05-12/michigan-ad-dave-brandon-mum-on-ohio-state-jim-tressel[/url]”>http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-football/story/2011-05-12/michigan-ad-dave-brandon-mum-on-ohio-state-jim-tressel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>“Well, Michigan did settle this one $$$ (actually more than one million…) before it went full-blown…”</p>

<p>Too bad tOSU wasn’t smart enough, or too arrogant, to settle their problem. Oh well, the penalty stage is a-coming, praise the lord!</p>

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<p>“That said, I do admire this guy. He is both wise and classy thus far! ;-)”</p>

<p>Interesting that you listed an article that mentions summer camps Sparkeye. Here is an example of a real classy move Tressel once made. This is from the story by SI on 5/30/2011:</p>

<p>"At worst, he was a conduit for improper benefits, as Clarett alleged. The latter interpretation is suggested by a story that has long circulated among college coaches and was confirmed to SI by a former colleague of Tressel’s from Earle Bruce’s staff at Ohio State in the mid-1980s. One of Tressel’s duties then was to organize and run the Buckeyes’ summer camp. Most of the young players who attended it would never play college football, but a few were top prospects whom Ohio State was recruiting. At the end of camp, attendees bought tickets to a raffle with prizes such as cleats and a jersey. According to his fellow assistant, Tressel rigged the raffle so that the elite prospects won – a potential violation of NCAA rules. Says the former colleague, who asked not to be identified because he still has ties to the Ohio State community, “In the morning he would read the Bible with another coach. Then, in the afternoon, he would go out and cheat kids who had probably saved up money from mowing lawns to buy those raffle tickets. That’s Jim Tressel.”</p>

<p>Read more: <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/magazine/05/30/jim.tressel/index.html#ixzz1O1GtAJi8"&gt;http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/magazine/05/30/jim.tressel/index.html#ixzz1O1GtAJi8&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/p&gt;

<p>This occurred at tOSU and was well known, so they knew what they were getting when he was hired a head coach. Tressel is slimy and it says a lot about tOSU and their win at all costs attitude. lol</p>

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<p>“To my mind the knowledge that players like Clarett, Troy Smith, Terrelle Pryor and probably many others were on the take, possibly lured to OSU with offers of cars, women, cash, tattoos, and other goodies, taints every single OSU victory of the Tressel era. Watch the game film and gloat, if you like, but these were cheaters, plain and simple. That makes the victories pretty hollow.”</p>

<p>Not in the eyes of the Buckeye faithful. A victory over Michigan is worth it at any cost. Well, at least until they got caught…</p>

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<p>Sparkeye:</p>

<p>USC did not give the money to Reggie Bush as you stated.</p>

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<p>USC has had a significant academic scandal concerning no work A off campus classes and other illegal academic assitance activities before the Bush activities and got probation for that in 2001. </p>

<p>rjk–I actually prefer to take on OSU and beat them on the field. Otherwise it’s an empty championship. We have done it enough lately or barely lost in close games that I don’t fear them. Just have to play our best game each time.</p>

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<p>“That said, I do admire this guy. He is both wise and classy thus far! ;-)”</p>

<p>If you read between the lines, Brandon is saying something like, “Look, I’m not the sort of guy who’s going to take a shot at a school when it is in turmoil for having its incredibly filthy football program and its outrageously hypocritical coach exposed as the cesspool of deceit that they are.”</p>

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<p>tsdad,</p>

<p>With all due respect, I know my friend was making $5.75 an hour working part-time at the school library back when I was there. He was working at night shift and requested to work more but was denied due to the school policy. In short, there are so many news articles regarding to USC giving money either directly or indirectly to Reggie on Google search. Here is another one in his own words:</p>

<p>[Reggie</a> Bush Claims He Made $100,000 Through USC Work-Study Program | The Onion Sports Network](<a href=“http://www.onionsportsnetwork.com/articles/reggie-bush-claims-he-made-100000-through-usc-work,2049/]Reggie”>http://www.onionsportsnetwork.com/articles/reggie-bush-claims-he-made-100000-through-usc-work,2049/)</p>

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<p>“Too bad tOSU wasn’t smart enough, or too arrogant, to settle their problem. Oh well, the penalty stage is a-coming, praise the lord!”</p>

<p>If only we have Michigan’s lawyers… sigh… ;-)</p>

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<p>“That said, I do admire this guy. He is both wise and classy thus far! ;-)”</p>

<p>If you read between the lines, Brandon is saying something like, “Look, I’m not the sort of guy who’s going to take a shot at a school when it is in turmoil for having its incredibly filthy football program and its outrageously hypocritical coach exposed as the cesspool of deceit that they are.” </p>

<p>Should I go ahead and post Case #2 and continue the smack talk even when the spirit inside constantly reminding me of Matthew 7:1-3. :(</p>

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<p>Sparkeye, I think that Onion article is meant to be satire… ;-)</p>

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<p>^ Leave him alone, UCB. He’s an Ohio State guy . . . .</p>

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<p>Word around the campfire is that a number of clouted up alumni outside of Ohio approached Gee and told him that they would have a very hard time taking a public role in the upcoming $2.5B fundraising campaign unless this was dealt with swiftly. Look for a few assistant coaches to quietly go away, the AD to resign some time before the end of the Summer and a clean sweep of the compliance office.</p>

<p>Gee is safe unless the board and the foundation board believe that he’s more of a liability than an asset moving into the campaign since that was to be his primary role over the seven year contract when he returned from Vanderbilt.</p>

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