Should Ohio State re-hire Tressel?

• sleeper

  

  Jughead;793134 wrote:Sleeper, this thread is beyond stupid, even for you. :rolleyes:

  
  16 people agree with me. That's a lot, considering the 22 that said no only did so because they don't like me.
  
  I wouldn't be surprised if Tressel is re-hired, he's the best coach in the country.
• sportswizuhrd

  Seems that Tressel was in contact with Pryor's mentors more than previously disclosed.
  

  Former Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel had more contact with star quarterback Terrelle Pryor's mentors than previously disclosed, the Columbus Dispatch reported Tuesday.
  
  The phone calls and text messages occurred after Tressel learned in April 2010 that Pryor was violating NCAA rules by exchanging memorabilia for cash and tattoos at a local tattoo shop.
  
  Instead of notifying the NCAA or the university, Tressel hid the violations, a transgression that ultimately led to his resignation last week.
  
  According to records released Monday by Ohio State, Tressel exchanged 77 text messages and spent four-and-a-half hours on the phone with Ted Sarniak, a businessman in Pryor's hometown of Jeannette, Pa.
  
  Records reviewed by the Dispatch show the two spoke for 18 minutes on Dec. 21, two days before Ohio State announced the five-game suspensions of Pryor and four other players in the tattoos-for-memorabilia scandal.
  
  Tressel and Sarniak, described as a mentor of Pryor, also texted back and forth on March 8, 2011, the day that the university admitted Tressel had known for months about the violations by his players.
  
  The NCAA has asked Ohio State to fully explain Tressel's relationship with Sarniak, who often attended Buckeye football games. The NCAA is scheduled to hold a hearing Aug. 12 on the Ohio State case.
  
  The records also show 91 text messages between Tressel and Pryor's high school coach Roy Hall. Hall previously told the Dispatch he was unaware of the investigation and denied speaking to Tressel about it.

  http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/Report-Jim-Tressel-had-more-contact-with-Terrelle-Pryors-mentors-than--previously-disclosed-060711
• The Equalizer

  

  The OSU and ND situations with kids being killed are both horrible.
  
  But at least the school I root for didn't blame the kid for who got killed saying he brought it on himself before they ponied up a check to their family.
• dat dude

  The Equalizer;793171 wrote:The OSU and ND situations with kids being killed are both horrible.
  
  But at least the school I root for didn't blame the kid for who got killed saying he brought it on himself before they ponied up a check to their family.

  
  Seriously? That's the only distinction between the two events??
• Tiernan

  What I'm most pissed about is (if) and its still a BIG (IF) any real wrongdoing was committed like cars or money or drugs were used as inticements or perks with any of these players...they were already at OSU! Why give shit to players already signed?!?! At least give this stuff to recruits to get them to sign in the first place, don't jeopardize your job on existing studs already in the corral.
  
  Sleeper ol' buddy I love the Bucks as much as you do...but its time we bite the cyanide pill and accept the painful truth...Tress just totally Fkd Up handling what really wasn't much of a big deal if he had just walked down the hall to either the Compliance Police or Gene Smith's office 5 minutes after getting the first e-mail from that POS Cicero.
• ghosthunter

  

  Very well put, Tiernan. JT screwed this up from the beginning. All he had to do was make the people above him aware of what that e-mail contained. Then tell the NCAA, and suspend those 5 players indefinitely; to include the Sugar Bowl. Painful in Dec'10? You bet. A bowl game loss? More than likely. But considering what we know now, vice 6.5-7months ago, what's better? Now we are going to have to more than likely pay a pretty steep price for things that JT tried to hide.