"NCAA alleges Jim Tressel not honest"
(Now there's a news flash!)
"The NCAA, in a notice of allegations to the Ohio State school president last week, says football coach Jim Tressel was not honest after discovering his players were selling autographs, uniforms, championship rings and other memorabilia for money and tattoos."
The NCAA says Tressel "falsely attested" that he reported all knowledge of NCAA violations to the school.
The report also cites previous violations involving former quarterback Troy Smith, who received $500 from a booster and former men's basketball coach Jim O'Brien, who gave $6,000 to a recruit.
NCAA rules state second-time violators face postseason levies, coaching-staff suspensions and a loss of scholarships.
Ohio State must go before the NCAA's committee on infractions Aug. 12.
Absent from the notice was mention of a "failure to monitor" or "failure of institutional control," the most serious violations that historically have resulted in the worst penalties for programs.
Tressel did call an FBI agent within days, The Dispatch reported Monday, citing documents it acquired from Ohio State through a public-records request.
He also forwarded to a mentor of Pryor emails that had warned the coach his players were in trouble. But Tressel did not forward the emails to school officials.
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/lo ... ml?sid=101
(And tOSU fans could apparently care less about the integrity of their coach... )
What's bothering Ohio State football fan Mike Huffman about the Buckeyes heading into next season isn't the suspension of Coach Jim Tressel and six of his players.
"The biggest question in my mind is, who's going to be the starting quarterback?" Huffman said after watching Terrelle Pryor's possible replacements struggle early in the team's spring scrimmage yesterday in Ohio Stadium.
http://www.jaxnewsonline.com/2789/will- ... ink-so.php
(Never fear... Beano knows what's up!)
In a USA Today article posted last week, college football analyst Beano Cook predicts that Urban Meyer will be the head coach of the Ohio State football team in 2012.
“I think Ohio State has major problems and I think Jim Tressel has major problems,” Cook, whose comments were reported by The Columbus Dispatch, said during a Thursday ESPN radio interview. “I’ve said on my Podcast. . . (that) Urban Meyer will be the coach at Ohio State in 2012. That was my prediction and I stick by that prediction.”
