Coach Jim Tressel resigned as Head Coach of The Ohio State Buckeyes football program this morning.
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He succeeds Fickell, who took over last spring when Tressel's 10-year reign came crashing down.
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Is it even appropriate for Coach Tressel to force these players to make this pledge?
One, Tressel blew a lot of smoke up their, um, orifices when he was recruiting their players.
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However, not every coach in Ohio is ready to don the Tressel shirt-and-tie.
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Tressel had known about allegations that players were trading game paraphernalia for money and tattoos but didn't tell the university.
Meyer takes over a program that has been hit by several suspensions and the forced resignation of coach Jim Tressel.
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It is probably no coincidence that this occurs when both Hayes and Tressel had already reached a seemingly untouchable status.
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Instead, the NCAA said Tressel acted in secret and was solely responsible for the bulk of the unreported player violations.
Tressel was hit with a five-year "show-cause" penalty, making it unlikely he'll be hired by another school over that span.
On the other hand, one could euphemistically say that Coach Tressel strategically misrepresented and under-reported the facts as he knew them.
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Gee was asked in March 2011 whether he had considered firing Tressel.
Soon after Tressel was pressured to resign, Meyer said he wasn't interested in leaving ESPN, where he was a college football analyst.
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The source said Tressel was troubled by the information, and the coach indicated that he would investigate the matter and take appropriate action.
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It still would not surprise me if Coach Tressel resigned in light of the continued heat he will face in the upcoming months.
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The big news out of college football Thursday was the pledge that Jim Tressel apparently made five of his Ohio State players take.
Despite all that success and giving Tressel every benefit of the doubt in his protective intentions, there are at least two overarching lessons.
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He famously responded, "I'm just hoping the coach doesn't dismiss me, " a one-liner he came to regret when Tressel was later forced to resign.
Gee has gotten in trouble before for offhand remarks, most recently during a memorabilia-for-cash and tattoos scandal that cost football coach Jim Tressel his job.
And, at the very least, a one-year suspension of Coach Tressel.
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In other words, you have a Tressel-ish authority over your program.
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All agree the Tressel transgression left the university with little choice.
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Few coaches over the past decade have succeeded like Jim Tressel.
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That is because Tressel walked and talked the language of integrity.
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Tressel is just another in a long line of similar cases.
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Gee raised eyebrows in 2011 when he was asked amid an NCAA investigation into Ohio State's football program whether he had considered firing then-coach Jim Tressel.
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Regardless of what the NCAA finds in its investigation, Kelly will likely go unpunished, unless the NFL decides to invoke a Jim Tressel-like after-the-fact penalty.
"I am committed to ESPN and will not pursue any coaching opportunities this fall, " he said in a statement released the day after Tressel lost his job.
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Ohio State was later punished by the NCAA after it found that eight players accepted extra benefits in violation of its rules and that Tressel concealed the violations.
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Or former Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel, who was a king for a decade, surviving numerous scandals until he was forced to resign amid NCAA rules sanctions.
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