“The guys at Ohio State were guilty of trading tattoos for memorabilia. Thats hardly in the same league as aggravated assault.”
It wasn’t what the players did, it was how the coach handled it. Tressel swept it under the rug so he could use those players to win a bowl game.
No doubt there. Tressel really screwed the pooch with how handled it. When you compare what was going on at OSU to Alabama or Penn State, it was nothing.
“Tressel swept it under the rug so he could use those players to win a bowl game.”
My take from Columbus is that OSU’s black athletic director swept it under the rug. Tressel was the fall guy. OSU did not want to make Gene Smith the fall guy because of AA concerns. I have no proof except I watched the press conferences and everytime Tressel was about to answer a difficult question, Smith interupted and shut him up.
Wikipedia says of Smith “He was also identified as one of Black Enterprise’s “50 most powerful African-Americans in sports”. “