Tressel Out (per Columbus Dispatch)

We want to get him out of the booth.

 

Dungy is the Quote from The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

If Dungy, the coach, was a great as Dungy the Legend, they'd have renamed the Lombardi Trophy by now.

 

He's a big name. Most former NFL coaches do pretty well recruiting at the college level and Gruden is known as a QB guru. He has a ring.

He's a pretty good coach too. I'm not sure I'd want him as a coach in the NFL, but he'd clean up at Ohio State.

 

1. Fickell is OSU's coach in 2011.

2. Pryor may not be at Ohio State in 2011.

3. Pryor sure as shit won't be at Ohio State in 2012.

The only way Pryor ever plays for Gruden is if Gruden suddenly decides he wants to coach in the CFL.

 

Just about anybody can (or should) clean up at Ohio State.

But can he do it without cheating? And is he willing to "just work harder" if other schools are beating him out for players while cheating?

 

Crazy conspiracy theory: Luke Fickell is Tressel's puppet. The Medvedev to Tressel the Putin. The fake mustache to Tressel the Bobby Valentine.

 

I'm surprised a school with money to burn like OSU didn't have a PI on the payroll. Hell - it would probably be a better use of money than a statue.

Talk Radio Topic - Tressel - Statue or No Statue!! Discuss.

It says a lot that the NFL is in a lockout and college football STILL has had a worse off-season.

 

I doubt Fickell has any chance to keep the job. As Tressell's right-hand man and designated successor, it will be assumed he was in on the shenanigans to some extent.

He'll have to win real big to get a sniff, and then in the event he DID get the job, he'd be under the NCAA microscope every time he sneezed.

I doubt anyone with ANY ties to Tressel has a shot. The whole program needs a turbopowered enema.

 

Perhaps. I'd rather wait a year (or until after the 2011 season) before jumping to any conclusions. No one really knows what the fallout from all of this might be.

 

Well, telling the NCAA, "we're getting rid of all traces of the corrupt previous regime" works a lot better if you really do get rid of all traces of the corrupt previous regime.

If they don't, and the NCAA catches some player getting free sticks of Bazooka bubble gum at the barber shop, it's Hiroshima time.

 

Didn't scan through to see if anyone mentioned this before, but here is my take on why Pryor waited.

It pretty much came down to him going to Penn State or Ohio State. Pryor's dad loved Penn State, Joe Paterno and Tom Bradley. Pryor wasn't that fond of the "country setting" and didn't like that he might have had to wait a year or two to play because of Daryll Clark.

Now to the reason why he waited if he knew he wanted to go to Ohio State.

Pryor was also a damn good basketball player and knew he'd be able to take his team deep into the state playoffs. If they got to the state semifinals they would be played at the Bryce Jordan Center. What kind of reception do you think he would have gotten had he chosen Ohio State over PSU a few weeks before?

To me it was a no brainer. Almost immediately after Jeanette won the state title Pryor made his decision public that he was going to Ohio State. A decision that many knew about for weeks.

 

Everyday, for the rest of his life, Tressel will have to think at one point, "that MF Pryor".