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I say Trev is next in line too.

That is the twitter account they promote on MLB.com for Gammons. I think he was set up by the Royals mgmt. Who of the 4 parties involved benefits from this nonsense? NU? Starling/Boras? Royals? Gammons? It is clear that only one of the 4 actually benefits if this hits and sticks. The Royals. Since most of Gammons sources are baseball related, he was used as a pawn. But once the info gets out to Boras/Starling that this is made up, it only riles up a fan base for a day or two then goes away. The credibility of Gammons is now doo doo with all of the NU fan base. Starling is gone for at least 8 million.

11-1. Only loss to Wisc.

I heard a lot like the pistol offense. Reno, UCLA etc.

Nothing worse than a cheating coach. Try coaching little baseball against a bunch of cheating coaches/dads to show you how bad it is. That is rec baseball for 9, 10, 11, 12 year olds. Imagine a coach that is making millions. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out some of them are wired to cheat and cheat and cheat, until they fall on their own cheating swords. And this isn't a reference to Mike Leach either.

Why can't I use him.(Clarett) Just because Clarett was part of a cover up in 2003/2004 and now wants to clear his name, we are to believe this didn't happened. Ray Isaacs lied for years. Jim Tressel has lied for years. Maurice Clarett......Clarett says that while he was at Ohio State in 2002 and 2003 head coach Jim Tressel, as well as certain members of his staff and boosters, provided him with improper benefits. He says he covered up Tressel's improprieties during the NCAA investigation and afterward, Ohio State "blackballed'' him from the football program. When a 19 year old kid who is not very mature and is a primadonna, lies to protect the coach and school, then is blackballed, he has a reason to clear his name. Where is the lawsuit against Clarett for defamation of character against Tressel and his staff? They had the money to do it. Those are some pretty serious allegations by Clarett. Never happened!!!!! This is what I know. You admit Tressel cheated in 1988 and was involved in misdeeds at YSU. You admit that he cheated the game and let ineligible players play in 2010. Sandwiched between those two huge scandals is the Clarett scandal that you say didn't happen because he (Clarett) tried to cover it up and now tells a different story. I choose to believe that, if it looks like a duck in 1988 and in 2010, it was a cheating duck in 2003/2004. No proof, but the truth is in the details. It will come out in Tressel's tell all. That is his last chance to make more money.

I think you may be in denial. Rally the troops and somehow go undefeated. I don't think that is in the cards this year. See Texas from last year. Star QB gone!!! Lost 7 games and 6 in conference. You are better off hoping you are bowl eligible with wins and no probation. Texas still had their "star head coach", if you can call him that and lost 7 games with a wealth of talent. Chances are even if you were undefeated, your star QB and great head coach set this team back 5 years. It is already on the news that your top prospect is running away from OSU and heading to UM. He is on record saying that many more Ohio players will be following him to UM. That is very troubling. I think you should start a thread that says "how long is OSU screwed"? It is very troubling how corrupt Tressel and tOSU has been with the cars, Clarett, tats, etc. I feel sorry for all the kids that got beat by kids that should of never been on the field last year. Even with vacated wins, the schools you beat don't get credit for the wins. So it is like both schools take the loss but in reality only tOSU should have the loss in those games. So sad. So, my answer is NO, you don't have my support until you stop cheating and admit you have cheated the game for many years. I don't think Buckeye fans think any rules were broken and that is obvious by this thread. They honestly think Tressel misled some people and got into troubling for looking the other way. The stuff that tOSU has been doing under tressel is very SMU like. Wow.....just wow. One he said supposedly....this thread was about conference loyalty in the postseason against the team that beat you. That was it. So you go and attack a hypothetical situation as if he posted it as fact. Two, SMU really? 2 Violations for Ohio State, 10 for USC, 9 for UNC, 12 for Tennessee, 22 for Boise St. ESPN only reported constantly about Ohio State's. And you wonder why we think ESPN has it out for Ohio State? Other than USC's, all others have happened this year. All of them violated 10.1 which was Ohio State's worst violation. Only USC received a post season ban and scholarship reduction. And there other violations not only were far worse, but encompassed three different sports. So if USC doesn't get the death penalty, and Georgia Tech doesn't get a post season ban for far worse transgressions than Ohio State, how the hell can you even compare Ohio State to SMU? Please read this article and tell me that he didn't have a habit of cheating the game going back 8 years at tOSU and then even at Youngstown State. You mean the very article the star QB at YSU in question said was false? You mean the same Maurice Clarett that admitted Tressel didn't know what he was doing? Not sure what you're getting at, but there's been no proof of the habit of cheating for 8 years you state. According to documents acquired Friday by The Vindicator, much of the information in the Sports Illustrated article detailing the Youngstown State University scandal was accurate, but the documents also revealed some more-detailed information. The May 31 SI story detailed former YSU and Ohio State coach Jim Tressel’s career, including the player scandals that led to his resignation Monday. The Vindicator obtained 13 of the 31 pages of a 1999 internal report that detailed an 18-month investigation by the university’s review committee. The documents from the resulting investigation were placed in the personnel file of Isaac, the quarterback who led the team to its first NCAA Division I-AA national championship in 1991. link to evidence about Issacs being a liar!!! This is pretty clear. Issacs and Tressel cheated together in the mid 1990's with Mickey Monus. You keep asking for evidence that Tressel has cheater for the last 8 years. SI said 8, but what would've they of said if they got this evidence in and went to print with this. Tressel has been cheating for 15 years. http://www.vindy.com/news/2011/jun/05/by-karl-henkel/?print During this trial (at which Monus was found not guilty) Monus and Isaac, who had pleaded guilty to attempting to bribe a juror on ­Monus's behalf, disclosed their financial dealings while Isaac was a student and alleged that Tressel had set these in motion with that first phone call. Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/magazine/05/30/jim.tressel/index.html#ixzz1SwjgdWwG What exactly do I need to respond to. You post an article re-iterating what the SI article said. Then Ray Isaac goes on another article saying what was said was wrong. Dorhmann talks about the cars and 9 additional players in the SI article. And the NCAA and the Ohio BMV show that the article was false. He indicates other players in the Tattoo scandal and some of these players don't even have tattoos. The Clarett issue was proven as a lie as the NCAA investigated and Clarett himself said he made it up. So regarding violations, the only actual proof out there, was Troy Smith's violation. I know this is just going to be a circular argument, and it's your word against mine. So let's just agree to disagree. You want to see more than there is to the story. And in your eyes, I want to see less than there is to the story. SI never got a hold of the Isaacs records. They asked but never got them. ESPN was told twice they would get them, but never rec'd them. Vindy.com got them. These records show more and more that Isaacs is a liar. To this day, Isaacs is trying to find out what teammates told about him. I said 15 years of cheating. I just realized and read that Isaacs played at YSU in 1988, so it is really 23 years of cheating. You need to respond to the fact that you have been asking for someone to show you evidence of cheating. Here is evidence going back 23 years. "I got a call from Mr. Tressel," Monus told a jury, "and I believe the call was that he wanted me to be introduced to Ray and to work out some kind of job for him." You went on to challenge my statement about Tressel/OSU with Wow, just wow, about my claim that Tressel/OSU is/was just as bad as SMU. I want you to admit that Tressel has been cheating the game since 1988.... That is 23 years of some form of cheating. tOSU has already shown their cards with Tressel. He was the bad seed in all of this and he is gone, so please don't punish us. Tressel would still be there if isn't for a federal investigation that made all of this evidence come to light. You defend this Isaacs guy who says this..... “Unless the money, or the receipts of the money, came out that Mickey Monus gave me money; if Ron Cole [then-Vindicator reporter and now YSU spokesman] had not alerted Youngstown State University, then I would have escaped the lie,” he told The Vindicator on Wednesday. Isaacs goes on to say that Tressel knew nothing but Mickey Monus says that Tressel asked him to give Isaacs a job. "I got a call from Mr. Tressel," Monus told a jury, "and I believe the call was that he wanted me to be introduced to Ray and to work out some kind of job for him." That is cheating going back to 1998!!!!!!! Wow, just wow.

I think you may be in denial. Rally the troops and somehow go undefeated. I don't think that is in the cards this year. See Texas from last year. Star QB gone!!! Lost 7 games and 6 in conference. You are better off hoping you are bowl eligible with wins and no probation. Texas still had their "star head coach", if you can call him that and lost 7 games with a wealth of talent. Chances are even if you were undefeated, your star QB and great head coach set this team back 5 years. It is already on the news that your top prospect is running away from OSU and heading to UM. He is on record saying that many more Ohio players will be following him to UM. That is very troubling. I think you should start a thread that says "how long is OSU screwed"? It is very troubling how corrupt Tressel and tOSU has been with the cars, Clarett, tats, etc. I feel sorry for all the kids that got beat by kids that should of never been on the field last year. Even with vacated wins, the schools you beat don't get credit for the wins. So it is like both schools take the loss but in reality only tOSU should have the loss in those games. So sad. So, my answer is NO, you don't have my support until you stop cheating and admit you have cheated the game for many years. I don't think Buckeye fans think any rules were broken and that is obvious by this thread. They honestly think Tressel misled some people and got into troubling for looking the other way. The stuff that tOSU has been doing under tressel is very SMU like. Wow.....just wow. One he said supposedly....this thread was about conference loyalty in the postseason against the team that beat you. That was it. So you go and attack a hypothetical situation as if he posted it as fact. Two, SMU really? 2 Violations for Ohio State, 10 for USC, 9 for UNC, 12 for Tennessee, 22 for Boise St. ESPN only reported constantly about Ohio State's. And you wonder why we think ESPN has it out for Ohio State? Other than USC's, all others have happened this year. All of them violated 10.1 which was Ohio State's worst violation. Only USC received a post season ban and scholarship reduction. And there other violations not only were far worse, but encompassed three different sports. So if USC doesn't get the death penalty, and Georgia Tech doesn't get a post season ban for far worse transgressions than Ohio State, how the hell can you even compare Ohio State to SMU? Please read this article and tell me that he didn't have a habit of cheating the game going back 8 years at tOSU and then even at Youngstown State. You mean the very article the star QB at YSU in question said was false? You mean the same Maurice Clarett that admitted Tressel didn't know what he was doing? Not sure what you're getting at, but there's been no proof of the habit of cheating for 8 years you state. According to documents acquired Friday by The Vindicator, much of the information in the Sports Illustrated article detailing the Youngstown State University scandal was accurate, but the documents also revealed some more-detailed information. The May 31 SI story detailed former YSU and Ohio State coach Jim Tressel’s career, including the player scandals that led to his resignation Monday. The Vindicator obtained 13 of the 31 pages of a 1999 internal report that detailed an 18-month investigation by the university’s review committee. The documents from the resulting investigation were placed in the personnel file of Isaac, the quarterback who led the team to its first NCAA Division I-AA national championship in 1991. link to evidence about Issacs being a liar!!! This is pretty clear. Issacs and Tressel cheated together in the mid 1990's with Mickey Monus. You keep asking for evidence that Tressel has cheater for the last 8 years. SI said 8, but what would've they of said if they got this evidence in and went to print with this. Tressel has been cheating for 15 years. http://www.vindy.com/news/2011/jun/05/by-karl-henkel/?print During this trial (at which Monus was found not guilty) Monus and Isaac, who had pleaded guilty to attempting to bribe a juror on ­Monus's behalf, disclosed their financial dealings while Isaac was a student and alleged that Tressel had set these in motion with that first phone call. Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/magazine/05/30/jim.tressel/index.html#ixzz1SwjgdWwG

Coqui, The NCAA said, "The Aug 12th hearing is appropriate due to the unethical conduct of the head football coach." Translation, you (tOSU) got rid of your cheater coach and that was the main problem and why no additional charges are going to be applied like, failure to monitor. Before you trip all over yourself on this news. It makes my point again that Tressel is a cheater and been cheating the game for long time. I laid out several points in the previous posts about 8 posts back that are direct examples of Tressel cheating since the mid 1990's and you never ever addressed those. You sure go a long way to defend tOSU, Tressel and even his star QB Issacs at YSU. What does the mean? You have no come back on this evidence and Tressel is a cheater. He was just very good at not getting caught. Tweet by Joe Schad from Tressel's testimony to the NCAA. Tressel admitted he knew a player selling memorablia would have had to be declared ineligible Translation, If I cheat, my star players get to play this year.

I think you may be in denial. Rally the troops and somehow go undefeated. I don't think that is in the cards this year. See Texas from last year. Star QB gone!!! Lost 7 games and 6 in conference. You are better off hoping you are bowl eligible with wins and no probation. Texas still had their "star head coach", if you can call him that and lost 7 games with a wealth of talent. Chances are even if you were undefeated, your star QB and great head coach set this team back 5 years. It is already on the news that your top prospect is running away from OSU and heading to UM. He is on record saying that many more Ohio players will be following him to UM. That is very troubling. I think you should start a thread that says "how long is OSU screwed"? It is very troubling how corrupt Tressel and tOSU has been with the cars, Clarett, tats, etc. I feel sorry for all the kids that got beat by kids that should of never been on the field last year. Even with vacated wins, the schools you beat don't get credit for the wins. So it is like both schools take the loss but in reality only tOSU should have the loss in those games. So sad. So, my answer is NO, you don't have my support until you stop cheating and admit you have cheated the game for many years. I don't think Buckeye fans think any rules were broken and that is obvious by this thread. They honestly think Tressel misled some people and got into troubling for looking the other way. The stuff that tOSU has been doing under tressel is very SMU like. Wow.....just wow. One he said supposedly....this thread was about conference loyalty in the postseason against the team that beat you. That was it. So you go and attack a hypothetical situation as if he posted it as fact. Two, SMU really? 2 Violations for Ohio State, 10 for USC, 9 for UNC, 12 for Tennessee, 22 for Boise St. ESPN only reported constantly about Ohio State's. And you wonder why we think ESPN has it out for Ohio State? Other than USC's, all others have happened this year. All of them violated 10.1 which was Ohio State's worst violation. Only USC received a post season ban and scholarship reduction. And there other violations not only were far worse, but encompassed three different sports. So if USC doesn't get the death penalty, and Georgia Tech doesn't get a post season ban for far worse transgressions than Ohio State, how the hell can you even compare Ohio State to SMU? Please read this article and tell me that he didn't have a habit of cheating the game going back 8 years at tOSU and then even at Youngstown State. You mean the very article the star QB at YSU in question said was false? You mean the same Maurice Clarett that admitted Tressel didn't know what he was doing? Not sure what you're getting at, but there's been no proof of the habit of cheating for 8 years you state. Wow, just wow!!! Please read this little paragraph about this Issacs QB that you are defending here. You mention you only get answers like, Look it up yourself. I looked up a little more on Mr Issacs. This is from 7 years ago. I never saw a lawsuit come from this as false but Issacs saying Dohrmann is lying is complete BS. The last paragraph shows Tressel has cheated since 1996 or when Issacs first got to campus at Youngstown State University. Is this really the first time? So, I need to amend my claim of 8 years and go with 15 years. At the time, Isaac was under investigation by the FBI for tampering with the lone juror who had refused to convict Monus in his first corporate fraud trial. Facing 17 years in prison unless he squealed on Monus, his sugar daddy, Isaac wanted Tressel's advice. "This is what I know ... " Isaac told Tressel. His mentor, as Isaac describes Tressel, cut him off before details flowed. "I don't want to know what you know," Tressel said. "Just tell them the truth." Isaac would confess to trying to bribe the juror. The U.S. justice system would be served. But the wheels of NCAA justice would wait four more years to begin turning again. They would start grinding on March 4, 1998, when Monus was on trial for jury tampering. Cochran said only then, when made aware of a local television report on Isaac's court testimony that day, did he realize that NCAA rules had been broken years earlier. Isaac's benefactor was Michael "Mickey" Monus, chairman of the university's board of trustees and a local hero in his own right. As the dazzling, if disheveled CEO of the rapidly expanding Phar-Mor discount drug store chain, he created thousands of local jobs. Sam Walton of Wal-Mart once called Monus the only businessman he feared, for he couldn't understand how the Youngstown-based company could open so many stores (300 in 33 states) so quickly. Walton would get his answer with a subsequent federal conviction: Monus was cooking the books, Enron-style. He remains in prison on corporate fraud crimes, his empire in shambles. "I got a call from Mr. Tressel," Monus told a jury, "and I believe the call was that he wanted me to be introduced to Ray and to work out some kind of job for him." linked: http://www.sbnation.com/hamsandwich/2011/4/25/2131987/jim-tressel-ohio-state-investigation This info on Tressel cheating, yes I said cheating is from a federal jury trial and is undisputed evidence that Monus says Tressel is a cheater.

'Coqui' People automatically assume others are guilty without any real evidence. I've asked this numerous times and no one has really done this. I've asked the people that make the claim that Tressel's been cheating for 8 years, to post concrete evidence of the 8 years straight of cheating. The response? "Look it up yourself." I'm not the one making the statement. And there isn't proof of 8 years straight of cheating. You asked for someone to post info. Here is a little story written about Tressel that is 7 years old. It is very troubling. When I refer to cheating for 8 years, I am taking that from the SI article. This story is very damaging to Tressel and it 7 years old. The lying and cheating goes back many years according to this article. Enjoy. The link below is the full article. I had to cut up the copy and paste to avoid any issues. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=1920867&type=story Friday, November 12, 2004 Updated: May 30, 1:03 PM ET Souls of the departed haunt Youngstown By Tom Farrey ESPN.com The relationship between Jim Tressel and Maurice Clarett dates back to their days in Youngstown. For much of the past century, the smallish city of Youngstown was, remarkably, one of the steel capitals of the nation. Its mills and ethnic immigrants produced the raw material for cars, bombs, skyscrapers -- just about any object that enabled the rise of the United States as a world power. Jobs were plentiful, paychecks were fat, and crime was someone else's problem, save for the occasional mob-inspired car bombing that no one seemed to witness. Clarett never knew that city on a hill. The Youngstown he was born into in 1983 was an unfolding tragedy of historic proportions. Beginning six years earlier with what locals came to call "Black Monday," virtually every steel mill along the river for 25 miles -- twenty-five miles -- shut down as the industry shifted production to overseas plants. With breathtaking speed, the town shrunk from 170,000 residents to 80,000. City life grew post-Apocalyptic: middle-age men, homeless and bankrupt, sleeping in boarded-up brick buildings. Suicides rising, seven fold. Child abuse so rampant, counselors needed counseling. In headier days, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin laid down the snapping rhythms of Youngstown on rotating stages in smoke-filled bars. Now it was the kind of bitter, broken place Bruce Springsteen would give voice to in a song named after the city. Seven hundred tons of metal a day Now sir you tell me the world's changed Once I made you rich enough Rich enough to forget my name. * * * But does a sense of entitlement alone put Ohio State in the crosshairs of NCAA investigators? No. College football is full of young studs who wish schools would share more of the revenue they are helping generate, or at least support their desire to tear down the tacit NFL-NCAA agreement that keeps a player from NFL money for three years after high school. For a full-on NCAA migraine, for one player's behavior to spiral out of control, it takes an enabler. Jim Tressel arrived in Youngstown in 1986, the right man at the right time. As head coach at Youngstown State, he would go on to win four Division I-AA national titles between 1991 and '97, using mostly recruits from the now-devastated valley. But it wasn't just the success that endeared him to the locals. It was the image he projected that stood in contrast to that of depressed Youngstown. Tressel looked like a minister in his trademark sweater vest and perfect haircut, and played the part, too, founding a Fellowship of Christian Athletes chapter at the school. His athletes traveled in coat and tie and said "Yes, ma'am" to airplane flight attendants. He talked constantly about his players as family and about the team as a tool for community pride. As many as 20,000 fans a game filled the team's downtown stadium, cheering for the Penguins -- and for the revival of a valley's heart. "That's what kept that city alive, the university and the hospitals," said Ray Isaac, quarterback on Tressel's first title team. "We were the toast of the town. We had parades. We had it all." Isaac had more. As the NCAA would later learn, Isaac was taking money from a booster from virtually the moment he joined the team in 1988. A few hundred here, a thousand or so there, including $3,800 during the 1991 championship season. In all, Isaac got about $10,000, plus the use of various cars, during his career. Ray "The Colonel" Isaac was Tressel's original Maurice Clarett, a Youngstown kid with quick feet and open palms who would lift his team, and coach, to new heights. Isaac's benefactor was Michael "Mickey" Monus, chairman of the university's board of trustees and a local hero in his own right. As the dazzling, if disheveled CEO of the rapidly expanding Phar-Mor discount drug store chain, he created thousands of local jobs. Sam Walton of Wal-Mart once called Monus the only businessman he feared, for he couldn't understand how the Youngstown-based company could open so many stores (300 in 33 states) so quickly. Walton would get his answer with a subsequent federal conviction: Monus was cooking the books, Enron-style. He remains in prison on corporate fraud crimes, his empire in shambles. Monus declined ESPN.com's request for an interview. And Youngstown State isn't eager to share the contents of its investigation into the Monus-Isaac matter. Twice, high-ranking officials at the university promised to make the school's internal report available to ESPN.com, only to later deny its release. A university lawyer said that Youngstown State considers the report as among Isaac's student records, which cannot be released under open-records law due to privacy restrictions. But this much is certain, based on an ESPN review of legal documents and other sources: Monus was no stranger to Tressel. A huge sports fan, Monus could be found on the sidelines during Penguin games. He was on the university athletics committee that hired Tressel. And, according to court testimony that eventually brought the Isaac payments to light, it was Tressel who directed Isaac to Monus at the start of his freshman year. "I got a call from Mr. Tressel," Monus told a jury, "and I believe the call was that he wanted me to be introduced to Ray and to work out some kind of job for him." Jim Tressel won four I-AA national titles at Youngstown State. In their first meeting at the Phar-Mor corporate office, Isaac told Monus he had no money to go to a local fair. Monus gave him $150 for doing nothing. An enduring relationship was formed. "I found an avenue, a guy with a soft heart," Isaac told ESPN.com. Isaac said Tressel never knew about the payments, and the NCAA found no evidence that he did. But as would be the case later with Clarett, questions would arise about how much Tressel and his bosses really wanted to know. In January 1994, a month after winning the team's second national title, Youngstown State got a letter from the NCAA notifying the school that an anonymous tipster had blown the whistle on Monus and Isaac. Just one month later, based on assurances by Tressel and athletic director Joe Malmisur, school president Leslie Cochran informed the NCAA that there was no substance to the allegations. The NCAA promptly dropped the matter. Youngstown State's internal investigation was a sham. So little diligence went into pursuit of truth that Malmisur never confronted Monus with the allegations, nor apparently did Tressel contact Isaac, as Cochran said he had instructed them to do. Tressel, in a December 2003 interview, declined comment to ESPN.com on most aspects of the case but said he can't remember if he discussed the Monus allegations with his former player. Isaac is more definitive: "I didn't talk to nobody." Later that year, Isaac called Tressel. At the time, Isaac was under investigation by the FBI for tampering with the lone juror who had refused to convict Monus in his first corporate fraud trial. Facing 17 years in prison unless he squealed on Monus, his sugar daddy, Isaac wanted Tressel's advice. "This is what I know ... " Isaac told Tressel. His mentor, as Isaac describes Tressel, cut him off before details flowed. "I don't want to know what you know," Tressel said. "Just tell them the truth." Isaac would confess to trying to bribe the juror. The U.S. justice system would be served. But the wheels of NCAA justice would wait four more years to begin turning again. They would start grinding on March 4, 1998, when Monus was on trial for jury tampering. Cochran said only then, when made aware of a local television report on Isaac's court testimony that day, did he realize that NCAA rules had been broken years earlier. Now retired, Cochran looks back on the 1994 non-investigation by his athletic director and coach with embarrassment. "I feel like I got crapped on," he said. Youngstown State would admit to a lack of institutional control and accept minor scholarship cuts. But avoiding the truth for so long served the team and city well. With the NCAA's statute of limitations on violations having expired in 1996 -- five years after Isaac left college -- the NCAA declined to strip Youngstown State of its beloved '91 national championship Eleven months after the NCAA issued its decision, with no reprimand for Tressel at Youngstown, Ohio State athletic director Andy Geiger hired Tressel as the Buckeyes' new head coach. Three days after that, Clarett, the nation's top high school running back, orally committed to Ohio State. Jim Tressel was a driving reason. * * * And once again, Tressel was faced with the question of how much he really wanted to know about his rainmaker. Clarett's recent contention that Tressel actually directed him to those who loaned him cars makes those questions more pressing. "If there were problems with Maurice, Tress should have seen it," said Vince Marrow, an inner-circle advisor to Clarett and former NFL player. The Columbus Dispatch reported last year Tressel had said during the national championship season that Dellimuti's name didn't ring a bell. In fact, Tressel had knowledge of Dellimuti before Clarett even played a game. When pressed by ESPN.com, Tressel said he first met Dellimuti in the spring before Clarett's freshman season when Dellimuti introduced himself after practice. "I knew he was a booster of the Warren high school program and a fellow who was very involved with coach McDaniel," Tressel said. Tressel declined to detail any specific efforts he made to learn about Clarett's actions when rumors began to circulate about his receiving impermissible benefits. Speaking in general terms, he said, "Do I think I didn't work hard on trying to be cognizant of Maurice or anyone else? I think we've worked very hard on it. It's a difficult task. We need to do it better."

anyone know when his visit date will be?

I think you may be in denial. Rally the troops and somehow go undefeated. I don't think that is in the cards this year. See Texas from last year. Star QB gone!!! Lost 7 games and 6 in conference. You are better off hoping you are bowl eligible with wins and no probation. Texas still had their "star head coach", if you can call him that and lost 7 games with a wealth of talent. Chances are even if you were undefeated, your star QB and great head coach set this team back 5 years. It is already on the news that your top prospect is running away from OSU and heading to UM. He is on record saying that many more Ohio players will be following him to UM. That is very troubling. I think you should start a thread that says "how long is OSU screwed"? It is very troubling how corrupt Tressel and tOSU has been with the cars, Clarett, tats, etc. I feel sorry for all the kids that got beat by kids that should of never been on the field last year. Even with vacated wins, the schools you beat don't get credit for the wins. So it is like both schools take the loss but in reality only tOSU should have the loss in those games. So sad. So, my answer is NO, you don't have my support until you stop cheating and admit you have cheated the game for many years. I don't think Buckeye fans think any rules were broken and that is obvious by this thread. They honestly think Tressel misled some people and got into troubling for looking the other way. The stuff that tOSU has been doing under tressel is very SMU like. Wow.....just wow. One he said supposedly....this thread was about conference loyalty in the postseason against the team that beat you. That was it. So you go and attack a hypothetical situation as if he posted it as fact. Two, SMU really? 2 Violations for Ohio State, 10 for USC, 9 for UNC, 12 for Tennessee, 22 for Boise St. ESPN only reported constantly about Ohio State's. And you wonder why we think ESPN has it out for Ohio State? Other than USC's, all others have happened this year. All of them violated 10.1 which was Ohio State's worst violation. Only USC received a post season ban and scholarship reduction. And there other violations not only were far worse, but encompassed three different sports. So if USC doesn't get the death penalty, and Georgia Tech doesn't get a post season ban for far worse transgressions than Ohio State, how the hell can you even compare Ohio State to SMU? Please read this article and tell me that he didn't have a habit of cheating the game going back 8 years at tOSU and then even at Youngstown State. You mean the very article the star QB at YSU in question said was false? You mean the same Maurice Clarett that admitted Tressel didn't know what he was doing? Not sure what you're getting at, but there's been no proof of the habit of cheating for 8 years you state. SI went to print knowing the facts of Ray Issacs getting paid by Mickey Monus and Tressel directed it from the beginning. I haven't seen a lawsuit by Issacs just yet that this is false. I am not holding my breath that one is coming from Mr Issacs. OJ Simpson says he didn't kill Nicole and Ron. Ray Issacs went on a radio program and denied this. Does that mean it didn't happen? Would SI go to print and refer to 1988 court documents that show that Monus and Tressel gave extra benefits to Issacs. Tressel skated since he was asked to go investigate himself on the most serious allegations. Tressel hands are all over the Clarett situation with Tressel's brother being the go between Jim Tressel to get Clarett his extra benefits. All of tOSU nation turned their backs on Clarett since he turned on them and turned them in. I think there is proof that Tressel has cheated as far back as his early days at YSU with Ray Issacs and a host of other players at YSU. I think it continued at tOSU and he finally was caught by a fluke federal investigation of Eddie Rife. So if you ask a fan if a coach like Tressel has been cheating the game of college football since 1995 at YSU, would that be like what happened at SMU? Just as bad in my opinion.

Halle Berry is one of the hottest ladies on the planet. If that is jungle fever, I have a bad case.

I think you may be in denial. Rally the troops and somehow go undefeated. I don't think that is in the cards this year. See Texas from last year. Star QB gone!!! Lost 7 games and 6 in conference. You are better off hoping you are bowl eligible with wins and no probation. Texas still had their "star head coach", if you can call him that and lost 7 games with a wealth of talent. Chances are even if you were undefeated, your star QB and great head coach set this team back 5 years. It is already on the news that your top prospect is running away from OSU and heading to UM. He is on record saying that many more Ohio players will be following him to UM. That is very troubling. I think you should start a thread that says "how long is OSU screwed"? It is very troubling how corrupt Tressel and tOSU has been with the cars, Clarett, tats, etc. I feel sorry for all the kids that got beat by kids that should of never been on the field last year. Even with vacated wins, the schools you beat don't get credit for the wins. So it is like both schools take the loss but in reality only tOSU should have the loss in those games. So sad. So, my answer is NO, you don't have my support until you stop cheating and admit you have cheated the game for many years. I don't think Buckeye fans think any rules were broken and that is obvious by this thread. They honestly think Tressel misled some people and got into troubling for looking the other way. The stuff that tOSU has been doing under tressel is very SMU like. Wow.....just wow. One he said supposedly....this thread was about conference loyalty in the postseason against the team that beat you. That was it. So you go and attack a hypothetical situation as if he posted it as fact. Two, SMU really? 2 Violations for Ohio State, 10 for USC, 9 for UNC, 12 for Tennessee, 22 for Boise St. ESPN only reported constantly about Ohio State's. And you wonder why we think ESPN has it out for Ohio State? Other than USC's, all others have happened this year. All of them violated 10.1 which was Ohio State's worst violation. Only USC received a post season ban and scholarship reduction. And there other violations not only were far worse, but encompassed three different sports. So if USC doesn't get the death penalty, and Georgia Tech doesn't get a post season ban for far worse transgressions than Ohio State, how the hell can you even compare Ohio State to SMU? Please read this article and tell me that he didn't have a habit of cheating the game going back 8 years at tOSU and then even at Youngstown State. Highlights of the article are: Story Highlights Since 2002 at least 28 OSU players are alleged to have traded or sold memorabilia Ex-Buckeye tells SI he and 'at least 20 others' swapped memorabilia for tattoos Source tells SI that four Ohio State players traded memorabilia for marijuana Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/magazine/05/30/jim.tressel/index.html#ixzz1SUAHPnU As coach at Youngstown (Ohio) State in the mid-1990s, he claimed not to know that his star quarterback had received a car and more than $10,000 from a school trustee and his associates -- even though it was later established in court documents that Tressel had told the player to go see the trustee. In 2003, during Tressel's third season in Columbus, Buckeyes running back Maurice Clarett was found to have received money and other benefits. Even though Tressel said he spent more time with Clarett than with any other player, he also said he did not know that Clarett had been violating the rules. During Jim Tressel's first four years on the sidelines of Ohio Stadium, then-athletic director Andy Geiger counseled his head football coach six times to improve his compliance with NCAA regulations. Geiger documented his coach's shortcomings in warning letters, and the compliance office in 2005-06 rated Tressel's performance in quickly reporting rules violations as "unacceptable." Other aspects of his compliance efforts were judged "excellent." link:http://www.woio.com/story/15088939/report-jim-tressel-had-compliance-issues-in-past It sounds like instead of 2 violations, Mr Tressel was very good at not getting caught. Bernie Madoff had this same ability. OSU is going to lose more ships than USC did. That is my guess. This has been going on for a long time with Tressel. Read up on the star QB that he set up to get bennies and 10k when he coached at YSU. He was behind all of it and it has since come out in legal proceedings. When you read up on the last 15 years, it doesn't past the smell test. Tressel will set this program back at least 5 years and no way they will be playing in bowl this year. Most of this never sees the light of day if the Tattoo parlor wasn't wrapped up in a federal investigation. Bad timing but really a program that has been cheating for a long time.

I think you may be in denial. Rally the troops and somehow go undefeated. I don't think that is in the cards this year. See Texas from last year. Star QB gone!!! Lost 7 games and 6 in conference. You are better off hoping you are bowl eligible with wins and no probation. Texas still had their "star head coach", if you can call him that and lost 7 games with a wealth of talent. Chances are even if you were undefeated, your star QB and great head coach set this team back 5 years. It is already on the news that your top prospect is running away from OSU and heading to UM. He is on record saying that many more Ohio players will be following him to UM. That is very troubling. I think you should start a thread that says "how long is OSU screwed"? It is very troubling how corrupt Tressel and tOSU has been with the cars, Clarett, tats, etc. I feel sorry for all the kids that got beat by kids that should of never been on the field last year. Even with vacated wins, the schools you beat don't get credit for the wins. So it is like both schools take the loss but in reality only tOSU should have the loss in those games. So sad. So, my answer is NO, you don't have my support until you stop cheating and admit you have cheated the game for many years. I don't think Buckeye fans think any rules were broken and that is obvious by this thread. They honestly think Tressel misled some people and got into troubling for looking the other way. The stuff that tOSU has been doing under tressel is very SMU like.

to Joe Schad for providing Cody's passing stats. As if those are the only measurables for a QB. Why don't people who cover college football for a living ever learn that running QBs can be winners at this level? Passing is not the only stat that matters for college QBs. Cody will make his living with his legs, not his arm. He's not a passing QB, per se. Wait. . .Cody is transferring because he's an NFL caliber QB. How many running qbs make it big in the NFL? Michael Vick, and look what happened to him, lol. Cody is neither a running or passing QB. He was good on the HS level but that is the reason he is leaving. I am on record saying I didn't think he would start another game as a NU QB. 3/14 won't get in done as a top 10 school in big time college football. If he goes to USC, he will not see the field in his last two years.

I like in the video of BK showing the reporter from the BTN around, he points to E Martin and says, that is the ugliest guy in the Big 10.

Full article Um..... WAT? This is one of my favorite planks by a Husker. http://yfrog.com/kkbx4ftj

If I am coaching this kid, there is no way he is playing defense with those skills. Game changer!!! I say he is a Denard Robinson clone.

Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the mutton. Tip your waitress. Just messin' man. I am bored. Sorry if it's a lame post. This article is not good news for Nebraska fans. tOSU is no. 2 in terms of best jobs and NU is no. 15. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/andy_staples/06/03/best-college-football-jobs/

Rumor is Tressel has resigned. Some interesting photoshops are located here. http://www.tigerdroppings.com/rant/p/26332016/Tressel-Resigns.aspx