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Jim Tressel Gets a New Job on 2/2/12 | Tipped by Quickish |
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The lesson of Jim Tressel to Akron is a familiar one. Embarrass your school. Draw the ire of the NCAA. Find another job. Rinse. Repeat. New York Times' Pete Thamel(via Twitter)

MORE: "I would like to know who came up with the title "vice president for strategic engagement." It sounds Costanza-esque." (SI.com's Stewart Mandel)
Ohio State Bowl Ban Reax, Cont'd on 21/12/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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Neither a one-year bowl nor nine docked scholarships will cripple the program, but preemptively rendering Urban Meyer's first team ineligible for the Big Ten title is no slap on the wrist, either. Stewart Mandel(via SI.com)

MORE: "I'm surprised the NCAA hit the Buckeyes as hard as it did. I figured The Ohio State University was immune from the kind of punishment that might cripple a program in recruiting and severely sully its once-pristine reputation." (Mark Schlabach, ESPN.com)
Ohio State Banned From Bowls, BCS in 2012 on 20/12/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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The NCAA today stunned Ohio State University’s football program by banning it from postseason play after the 2012 season, multiple sources told The Dispatch. The penalty means Ohio State automatically is out of the running for any bowl, or a Big Ten or national championship next year, just as newly appointed head coach Urban Meyer is wooing recruits to the Buckeyes. Randy Ludlow(via Columbus Dispatch)
Jim Tressel Suspended 6 Games on 5/9/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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Tressel to start coaching with seventh game...effectively Colts suspending him for 6 games. NYT's Judy Battista(via Twitter)

CBSSports.com's Mike Freeman adds: "The NFL got the Tressel suspension right. We knock the league when it does stuff wrong but Goodell and the Colts should be applauded."

SI's Peter King adds: "This Tressel ban till Week 7? His suggestion."
Ohio State Won't Face 'Failure to Monitor' on 22/7/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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OSU went from calling Tressel as a man of honesty and integrity to a complete liar in record time. Man did he get run over. Yahoo's Dan Wetzel(via Twitter)

The gist: "The NCAA ... agrees with Ohio State that Tressel was the only university official aware of violations by his players and that he failed to report them." (via The Columbus Dispatch)
Ohio State: Wipe 2010... But Nothing Else on 8/7/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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An "embarrassed" Ohio State University is wiping its stellar 2010 football season from the record books as self-imposed punishment for major NCAA violations. But it is not suggesting that the team lose scholarships or be banned from postseason play. Randy Ludlow(via Columbus Dispatch)

Dispatch colleague Ken Gordon adds, via Twitter: "Obviously, these self-sanctions should be viewed as the minimum baseline heading into NCAA hearing Aug. 12."
Last Word (For Now) On... Jim Tressel on 1/6/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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What I can't tolerate is the passel of excellent journalists who understand all the cockeyed incentives of big-time college sports, who know precisely where the big con lies, and who nonetheless write story after story after story after story in which they mistake the symptoms for the contagion. Tommy Craggs(via Deadspin)
Morning Quickie: Tressel Edition on 31/5/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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Forget the newly increased scope of the tchotchkes-for-tatts scandal -- Jim Tressel's downfall was entirely and exclusively about his own (repeated) lying and bumbled cover-up. Dan Shanoff(via Quickish Original)
The Humiliation and Humbling of Ohio State on 31/5/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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The Buckeyes’ athletic department and university administrators acted only when the laugh track for their penalties became too loud. Who can forget Gee, when asked if he would consider firing Tressel, saying, “I hope he doesn’t fire me”? Pete Thamel(via New York Times)
Catch Up on Jim Tressel Resignation on 31/5/11 | Tipped by Quickish |
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*Initial reactions (then a few more)
*Front Pages: "BLACKEYE NATION"
*SI's Tressel cover story
*Tressel resignation FAQ
*Ohio State's "self-inflicted wounds"
*Ohio State makes it a "Tressel problem"
*Who's next to coach Ohio State?
*Tressel resignation humor
*See all Jim Tressel coverage collected here.

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