The SI article about Tressel

• dat dude

  I'm also fairly certain Gene Smith is done at OSU. Possibly also the compliance department responsible for the initial investigation.
• KR1245

  

  This thing is getting ripped apart on twitter
  
  WhitlockJason Jason Whitlock
  This is laughable watching SI pretend it brought down Jim Tressel and unearthed something shocking. U gotta be kidding me!!
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• Midstate01

  

  We waited 2 weeks for this?? Lol. This is terrible!!!!! Haha SI is desperate for a story like yahoo and failed very badly.
• Writerbuckeye

  

  jordo212000;785769 wrote:If true, the players used memoribilia to get goods. In this case, illegal goods. That's still an issue. You can't give away memoribilia in exchange for goods/services.

  
  Again -- already known. Nothing new here. Just a rehash of what we already knew.
  
  I just don't see how any of this rises to LOIC. It's not even close to the amount of crap USC pulled. Then factor in USC not cooperating for something like three years.
  
  If the NCAA hits OSU as hard as USC over this, they'll never have another university self reporting major violations again.
• jordo212000

  

  KR1245;785772 wrote:This thing is getting ripped apart on twitter
  
  WhitlockJason Jason Whitlock
  This is laughable watching SI pretend it brought down Jim Tressel and unearthed something shocking. U gotta be kidding me!!
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  Lol. I'm interested to hear what other national personalities have to say about this article. Just looked at Twitter and a lot of people were making fun of that Dohrmann guy.
• Ty Webb

  

  Writer....you knew they were selling stuff for dimebags?
• jhay78

  

  I expect JT to cancel his resignation immediately, kick down the front door at the President's office tomorrow morning, and fire Gordon Gee.
• KR1245

  

  RandyLudlow‎ Summary of SI article: Lots of smoke, little proof, that lots of players sold memorabilia. Built on remarks from felon, anonymous sources.
• Midstate01

  

  Ty Webb;785778 wrote:Writer....you knew they were selling stuff for dimebags?

  
  Your disappointment is hilarious.
• Writerbuckeye

  

  Midstate01;785783 wrote:Your disappointment is hilarious.

  
  Truly hilarious.
• jordo212000

  

  I still can't get over all of the hype surrounding this story. There wasn't much substance at all. Lots of narrative type stuff from Youngstown St and the early years. He used a lot of that stuff to paint Tress as a bad dude. From there, like others have said, there was a lot of repeated information. Common Man and the Torg said that they heard this was going to be full of new allegations from their source.
• the_system

  The article wasn't terrible.
  
  Brought to light 9 new (current) players who might be getting suspended as well. Some of them will really hurt (Simon?).
  The car issue still isn't over. Pryor showing up to the meeting today in a 350Z with temp tags? Fucking brilliant.
  Tressel making traffic tickets disappear. It happened a long time ago, but definitely hurts his image even more.
• the_system

  KR1245;785782 wrote:RandyLudlow‎ Summary of SI article: Lots of smoke, little proof, that lots of players sold memorabilia. Built on remarks from felon, anonymous sources.

  Was Rose (former DE) a felon or anonymous too?
• karen lotz

  

  Ty Webb;785778 wrote:Writer....you knew they were selling stuff for dimebags?

  
  Stop posting on this topic.
• SportsAndLady

  

  the_system;785787 wrote:The article wasn't terrible.

  
  It wasn't terrible. But they hyped it up to be the ground breaking story that will bring down OSU athletics. So it's not terrible, but it's relatively terrible.
• centralbucksfan

  the_system;785788 wrote:Was Rose (former DE) a felon or anonymous too?

  
  No, but like Small...a disgruntled player who was in Tressel doghouse quite a bit.
• enigmaax

  Anybody give the writer a "cool story bro" yet?
• Midstate01

  

  Yea players with beef about playing time while at Osu spoke out. Shocker!!
• DeyDurkie5

  

  Ty Webb;785778 wrote:Writer....you knew they were selling stuff for dimebags?

  
  dimebags of dope, they should be fried
• the_system

  centralbucksfan;785795 wrote:No, but like Small...a disgruntled player who was in Tressel doghouse quite a bit.

  I can only imagine anyone who says anything will end up being a disgruntled player.
• jordo212000

  

  SportsAndLady;785792 wrote:It wasn't terrible. But they hyped it up to be the ground breaking story that will bring down OSU athletics. So it's not terrible, but it's relatively terrible.

  
  That's my feeling as well. There was some new information, just nothing that justified the amount of hype it got.
• LJ

  

  the_system;785800 wrote:I can only imagine anyone who says anything will end up being a disgruntled player.

  
  Youre kidding right?
• ytownfootball

  

  the_system;785787 wrote:The article wasn't terrible.
  

  
  Of all the sharks in the water smelling blood, SI is the retarded swimming in circles sideways...that was junk. Period.
• ytownfootball

  

  enigmaax;785796 wrote:Anybody give the writer a "cool story bro" yet?

  complete with a meme...lol...that would be awesome.
• KR1245

  

  SI built this thing up waaaay too much. I actually feel relieved after reading that