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That support crumbled suddenly over Memorial Day weekend. Tressel was forced out three days after Sports Illustrated alerted Ohio State officials that the wrongdoing by Tressel's players was far more widespread than had been reported. SI learned that the memorabilia-for-tattoos violations actually stretched back to 2002, Tressel's second season at Ohio State, and involved at least 28 players -- 22 more than the university has acknowledged. Those numbers include, beyond the six suspended players, an additional nine current players as well as nine former players whose alleged wrongdoing might fall within the NCAA's four-year statute of limitations on violations.


One former Buckeye, defensive end Robert Rose, whose career ended in 2009, told SI that he had swapped memorabilia for tattoos and that "at least 20 others" on the team had done so as well. SI's investigation also uncovered allegations that Ohio State players had traded memorabilia for marijuana and that Tressel had potentially broken NCAA rules when he was a Buckeyes assistant coach in the mid-1980s.

Now NCAA investigators and Ohio State are both looking into the use of cars by several current Buckeyes, including Pryor, who, a source close to one of the investigations told SI, might have driven as many as eight cars in his three years in Columbus. (Ohio State declined to make Pryor available for comment.) Former Buckeyes basketball player Mark Titus posted on his blog on May 24 that it was common knowledge among students that football players were driving cars too pricey for their means. "You'd have to be blind to not notice it," he wrote. Former wide receiver Ray Small confirmed last week to The Lantern, the Ohio State student newspaper, that he got a "deal" on a car from a Columbus dealer, but he did not provide the terms.

Systemic

They are making the boogers look like choir boys.

Until the barn investigation gets a crack in their defense, such as the Columbus lawyer showing emails he sent to Tressel.

Last Friday, SI informed Ohio State spokesman Jim Lynch of the new allegations and asked that Tressel be made aware of them. Lynch said the school would have some comment by the end of the day. No comment came, and on Saturday, Lynch told SI to contact Tressel's lawyer, Gene Marsh, for any response from the coach; Lynch also said he could not confirm that Tressel had been apprised of the new allegations. The implication was clear: Ohio State was distancing itself from Tressel. (E-mails from SI to Tressel and to Marsh and multiple phone messages for Marsh went unanswered.)

"Cochran, who is now retired, still shakes his head over Tressel's contradictions. There was the Christian who lifted kids out of troubled neighborhoods and built a football "family," Cochran says, and there was the coach who claimed to have been kept in the dark after he had assiduously avoided the light. "What bothered me was that the family knows," Cochran says. 'Inside the family everyone knows what's going on.'"

Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/magazine/05/30/jim.tressel/index.html#ixzz1NvnKHNuZ

Hmmm.... Let me see.  Where else have I heard so much talk about "the family"?   ???

As in "All in" the fambly?  :D

Systemic

They are making the boogers look like choir boys.

Yep, we'll see how the "other" family does as the trial of the accused gambling lords is scheduled to begin in June.

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 you deserve an e-cred for that newspaper cover.

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one thing for sure ... this mess is sure making the off season way more tolerable   ;)

7.35 should be more than good ...   ;)

and they need our help ... in their "down" time
we should do it !

plus there are actually companies that make sure the viral happens
and once those companies find out we are doing a "good deed" they
may just donate the service ...
 

OSU has an impossible job of coming up with another coach that can win the Big Ten and go to Rose bowl or title game every other year. His winning percentage of .82 is about as well as you can do in college. Coaches succeeding and winning and have established their programs are not leaving. That is more reason to think tOSU has Meyer at the top of their list and will offer him the position before January 2012.

I  think the NCAA investigation will not be finished in August. Some of the allegations may be addressed in August, but looking into players behavior and running down that information will be lengthly. NCAA has no reason to hurry on investigations as long as they get them right.

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