First coach Jim Tressel walks away from the Buckeyes, and now their star quarterback, Terrelle Pryor has decided he’s done at Ohio State. Anybody else want to jump the sinking Buckeye ship? Our guess is the NCAA is closing in on its investigation into allegations that football players-including Pryor–sold team memorabilia for discount tattoos.
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More Trouble for the #Buckeyes: Cops Say #TerrellePryor Driving Hot Car on Suspended License
Must be nice to have a brand new Nissan 350Z sports car. Even nicer if you can drive around town with a suspended license and no one seems to care. Then again, this is Columbus, Ohio.
Shocker: #Buckeyes #Tressel Resigns After Sports Illustrated Article Claims Years of Violations
So, it wasn’t just a couple of kids last year doing something stupid. Has there been a powerful college football team over the last 30 years that hasn’t cheated?
Tressel was forced out three days after Sports Illustrated alerted Ohio State officials that the wrongdoing by Tressel’s players was far more widespread than had been reported. SI learned that the memorabilia-for-tattoos violations actually stretched back to 2002, Tressel’s second season at Ohio State, and involved at least 28 players — 22 more than the university has acknowledged. Those numbers include, beyond the six suspended players, an additional nine current players as well as nine former players whose alleged wrongdoing might fall within the NCAA’s four-year statute of limitations on violations.
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/magazine/05/30/jim.tressel/index.html#ixzz1NvWCtHqr