Originally posted by Dr. Strangelove
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OK, lets examine the current circumstance for osu football vis-a-vis Michigan football. I'll be the first to admit osu has dominated Michigan on the playing field in the last decade. osu's record against Michigan and, in general, in CFB has been excellent.
But let's not lose sight of the fact that records in sports become tainted, if not erased entirely, when evidence shows that those records were obtained by breaking the rules. There is no way of escaping the conclusion that osu broke the rules in 2010 ...... all the wins and the B10 Championship are gone.
The evidence also suggests that there is a pattern of behavior at osu directly involving their head coach, jim tressel. I agree with you, DSL, that the huge mistake that tressel made does not validate claims of wide spread cheating but it doesn't invalidate them either. That's osu's problem as at stands right now and the osu administration make it worse the longer they stand behind tressel.
There is going to be a cloud of suspicion surrounding every past and future accomplishment osu obtains going forward in football no matter what happens to jim tressel. Instead of praising tressel and osu, which has become the norm when any mention of that program occurs, there will be remarks about cheating, about tressel, about pryor, et. al. That is the albatross around osu's neck.
That fact is going to damage osu football .... how much isn't known yet but it will and how much it does depends, right now, on how the osu administration handles this shit sandwich that tressel has created with, what is being characterized by the osu fan base, as a minor mistake.
Ha! This is huge. Will it destroy the program and make them more vulnerable to a reversal of M's 10 year record against osu and a decade of dominance by the scarlet and gray? Perhaps. I'm counting on it. Justice is served. The CFB universe will be restored to normalcy.
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