"After meeting with university officials, we agreed that it is in the best interest of Ohio State that I resign as head football coach," Tressel said in a statement Monday morning. "The appreciation that Ellen and I have for the Buckeye Nation is immeasurable."
I spoke at length about Tressel a couple months ago and what I said then still applies now. After what occurred with former player Ray Small and what he said late last week and the rumors are that his conversations lead to this development.
While I'm not the biggest fan of college coaches and I find many of them to be insincere, I know that Tressel is not alone in these actions in the NCAA, there are numerous programs that are guilty of major NCAA infractions and won't be caught because of how well the violations are hidden.
Tressel should have been fired months ago for his actions and the fact that it took more accusations for him to realize what long-term harm he's causing to the program is ridiculous.
What he did isn't the problem for me, it's how he did that screams the loudest and now the Ohio State program will be under a very watchful eye for years to come as people talk about OSU receiving a penalty as harsh or harsher than USC's.
The most eye opening thing about this is not that Tressel was caught, but how easily everything can unravel for a upstanding university like Ohio State in a matter of months and the reality is that all the major programs despite the image of compliance and hanging on by a thread because of the possibility of that one athlete opening his mouth or being spurned by the university from spilling the beans about events that could put his/her school on lockdown.
Now we're going to hear more talk about how the NCAA should pay its athletes and allow this and that, but it'll never happen and if anything more rules will be enforced to prevent future nonsense from happening at the top schools and things are only going to get worse as a result.
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