re: FWIW I enjoy the UM fans visiting here

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That said, arent you at least a bit concerned with all the "self-reporting", not to mention TAT-gate, since Tress arrived?

The man is dirty. Either directly, or indirectly(as in looks the other way ala YSU).

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As far as the tatoo gate/gold pants thing goes, of course, it's bad, but there's little evidence Tressel knew anything about it, and I don't know how it would provide a competitive advantage (so therefore, why would he advise it/what would be the point of him wanting them to do that, anyway? Only bad can come from it. Something like paying recruits to come to school (allegedly the Cam Newton thing) or extra practice time (I'm not trying to flame your school, because I believe most D-1 programs do this, you just got caught, I'm just trying to provide a clear example), I can see, because they provide an illegal, unfair advantage, but how would Tress benefit from (if he even knew about it) allowing players to sell jewelry/get tattoos?)

And while OSU does have the most minor NCAA violations of the past decade, many of them are things that are completely stupid by the NCAA. They're things that don't provide really any advantage, and things most schools probably do, but either don't report, or don't even realize is a violation. Just for example, one of the things that OSU reported was James Laurinaitis had a free lunch with the President of the University, because of an academic honor. However, because he was an athlete, he wasn't allowed to, because it was an NCAA violation. When OSU realized it was illegal, they reported it in, and JL had to pay $20 to charity for the lunch. OSU reports anything it thinks might be even the smallest of violations. It's just stupid stuff like that (mostly like that, I realize some of them are a little bigger).