Jim Tressel resigns

[JoeJoeBrown]

Originally Posted by sweater-vest_mafia

Call me biased (I am) but it seems to me that this should be enough of a punishment for THE Ohio State.

The only allegations which have held up are those involved with tatgate. We already self imposed suspensions of those players for this year, forced our head coach to resign, and now this self imposed sanction AND throw on top of that the fact that the NCAA chose not to suspend those players from a bowl game last year.

Unless some of the other allegations are proven (some of them have already been disproved) I don't see why there would be a ban from post season play. Possibly some scholarships taken away but I would hope not...

Totally agree.

The gnashing of teeth by the idiotic press right now is hilarious. They have a bunch of baseless accusations and nothing else. It's all based on feeling, not on fact. That Dohrmann SI article was a joke. No new content in there, and a bunch of baseless accusations where Dohrmann named players that weren't even involved.

[yo123]

Vacating wins is the biggest joke of a punishment ever. If you can even call it a punishment that is. Everyone knows who won those games, especially the players. I can't believe they still do this as if it matters in the slightest.

[keylime_5]

the vacating of wins is just a formality that comes with having played players who are ruled retroactively ineligible. What I find hilarious though is that they vacated the Sugar Bowl win after the NCAA said that Ohio State could play those players in the game, knowing even then that they were ineligible and said that they weren't suspended for the bowl game but for the first five of 2011 instead. NCAA is a joke, it would've been funny if Ohio State's self imposed punishment was to vacate all the wins except for the sugar bowl just as a kinda poke at the whole suspension or lack-thereof for that game.

As for if that is "enough" punishment....what we're talking about here is those 5 guys getting suspended for selling memorabilia for tattoos/cash. nothing else has been proven and nothing else really is there that has much substance to it. I wouldn't expect too much more if anything since it seems we're dealing with an isolated incident still.

[JHL6719]

Ohio State's Jim Tressel did 'unacceptable' job in reporting violations - ESPN.



http://espn.go.com/college-football/...ing-violations