Hall of Shame

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by Nevadaref

Another Hall of Shame entrant:

"Former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel said he's proud and at least a little surprised to be one of 14 Buckeyes who will be inducted into the university's athletic hall of fame this fall.
Tressel coached Ohio State's football team to a national championship in the 2002 season and won 94 games during his 10 years there as coach. He resigned in May 2011 after the NCAA discovered the coach had withheld information during an investigation into some of his players selling memorabilia and receiving illegal benefits.
For his role in that scandal, Tressel received a five-year show-cause penalty from the NCAA, meaning any school that wanted to hire him during that period would also have to take on the penalties from his time at Ohio State."

And Jim Tressel got hosed by the NCAA. There was no violations by OSU players. They sold items that belonged to them. The NCAA penalized Tressel, the players, OSU for imaginary rules violations. Furthermore, the alleged information that Tressel withheld from the NCAA was actually information that Tressel was not entitled to have; the information was confidential client-lawyer information which the lawyer had a duty not to reveal to Tressel. The lawyer has since been disbarred by the Bar of the State of Ohio.

None-the-less we Youngstown State University Penguins are proud to have Jim Tressel as our President and Bo Pellini as our football coach.

The NCAA punished Tressel for trivial horse manure while SEC coaches get away with far worse stuff. Case in point: Cam Newton and Auburn University.

MTD, Sr.