Just trolled tOSU fan forum and their responses are pretty amazing. From the SI article is a complete hatchet job with nothing new, to we need to clean house from top to bottom. As you follow the time line of the posts, however, there is a discernible growing grasp of reality, that tOSU is in for some very difficult times.
The most significant thing to me is that the national press seems to have a real boner for Tressel and the school. Seems to me that with someone like Calipari, whom everyone "knows" to be dirty, there is one level of aggression. But with JT and his prayer meetings and books on integrity, there is a whole nother level of aggression to "get 'im". I suspect the vultures are digging deeper than anyone might guess. As a result, by the time the NCAA actually gets to the penalty phase they will be unable to ignore much of anything, like they've done so far with Auburn, because the press will have uncovered and documented waaay more than the NCAA would have "mankaged" to do on their own.
If you haven't figured it out, in the name of full disclosure, let me admit that I think the NCAA is dirtier than any of the schools they profess to monitor! Their sole objective, IMHO, is to keep the gravy train on the track. The thought that they might lose a portion of the 100,000 fans per home game and the 30,000 traveling fans to a bowl game and millions of viewers who will not turn on the tube to watch an Indiana or Minnesota game instead of an OSU game is scarier to them than
any free cars to athletes for Rose Bowl tickets.
The most significant thing to me is that the national press seems to have a real boner for Tressel and the school. Seems to me that with someone like Calipari, whom everyone "knows" to be dirty, there is one level of aggression. But with JT and his prayer meetings and books on integrity, there is a whole nother level of aggression to "get 'im". I suspect the vultures are digging deeper than anyone might guess. As a result, by the time the NCAA actually gets to the penalty phase they will be unable to ignore much of anything, like they've done so far with Auburn, because the press will have uncovered and documented waaay more than the NCAA would have "mankaged" to do on their own.
If you haven't figured it out, in the name of full disclosure, let me admit that I think the NCAA is dirtier than any of the schools they profess to monitor! Their sole objective, IMHO, is to keep the gravy train on the track. The thought that they might lose a portion of the 100,000 fans per home game and the 30,000 traveling fans to a bowl game and millions of viewers who will not turn on the tube to watch an Indiana or Minnesota game instead of an OSU game is scarier to them than
any free cars to athletes for Rose Bowl tickets.
