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As The Talent would say, "Wooooot!"I'll let you ban hate speech when you let me define hate speech.
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spielman must have had a peak at that article for him to make this statement a few weeks ago.Former Ohio State All-American/current ESPN analyst/de facto conscience of the Buckeye Nation Chris Spielman told a country club crowd earlier this week that he would be "surprised" if Jim Tressel coached at all in 2011, because he suspects "there is more stuff coming out" about the unfolding scandal that has already landed Tressel on a five-game suspension to start the season.Comment
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I think osu is in trouble. How much is debatable.
The SI article will allege a great deal. Whether there is substance to it will be for the NCAA to determine and that will all be done in coordination with osu. Ask yourselves how much came out of Rosenberg's piece that alleged "major violations" of NCAA rules involving coaching contacts with athletes during the summer?
While it is true there is a ton of smoke over all this, it could all blow over and if osu dodges bullets, tressel returns and continues to win, all of this will be a distant memory ..... as horribly wrong as that would be, it is an entirely possible outcome.
Having said that, Jonathan Chait wrote an excellent piece set up to be a debate about whether Michigan fans should want to see tressel fired in disgrace or not. The debate between Chait (fire and forget) and Spath (keep and disgrace him on the field) wasn't even close.
First, Chait is a first class journalist who writes very well. Spath is an amateur. But the core thesis that Chait advances is that tressel has so blackened osu's image and the image of CFB that he has no place there, anywhere else, now or ever.
Mostly he has tarnished an image (based on the truth or not) of The Game wherein two powerful B10 programs have for decades played it with integrity and respect. How is it, going forward, regardless of the NCAA findings, that The Game can be raised as one of the great contests in all of sports when one of the opponents has been found to have a coach who lies?
That is the great tragedy here and this regardless of the outcome of tressmess.Mission to CFB's National Championship accomplished. But the shine on the NC Trophy is embarrassingly wearing off. It's M B-Ball ..... or hockey or volley ball or name your college sport favorite time ...... until next year.Comment
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Rumors, rumors, rumors. Let's have some FACTS.
Like 9 >1. Them's the factsComment
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I wonder how many of those 9 will be vacated. The entire Tressel era will have a huge asterisk next to it for eternity. Not to mention the shame and disgrace... Wait never mind. osu fans aren't capable of feeling either.Comment
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And so it goes ... Just win, baby."in order to lead America you must love America"Comment
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Michigan's APR continues its downward slide
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Another bi-product of the Rich Rod experiment but what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?Comment
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While you hens are clucking over gossip and innuendo your own program has become the poorest academic performer in the Big10!!Originally posted by Mike View Post
Shame, shame all aroundComment
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Yeah, because a system that counts players that transfer away because they hate the football coach as "academic failures" means so much.Comment
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"in order to lead America you must love America"Comment
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Oh BTW, the guy who supposedly wrote the SI article is the last sportswriter to win the Pulitzer. He got it for his takedown of Minnesota. So this is no Columbus version of Rosenberg we are talking about.
I wonder if after this is all done he'll get another Pulitzer?Comment
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well I am looking forward to reading this SI piece if in fact it really exists ... so far, it seems a lot like the Rapture.Comment
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The rumor has only been around for about a week, so it isn't THAT stale. Supposedly ESPN Radio were the ones that said it was coming out next week, but I didn't hear it on-air so who knows if that is true?
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