re: Tressel Alleged to have forwarded e-mails to Pryor's Mentor

This is a really funny thread.

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my point is that all clubs do this

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This is fricking stupid. All programs do not have coaches who knowingly play ineligible players. All programs do not have head coaches who unilaterally decide to cover-up major violations. All programs do not have head coaches who intentionally mislead the NCAA.

Is this it for Jim Tressel?

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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Gene Smith is supposed to be here Saturday. As chairman of the men's basketball committee it is duty to make the rounds during the NCAA tournament. Arizona and UConn play tomorrow for the right to go to the Final Four. Don't keep a seat warm for Smith. He is also Ohio State's athletic director, which makes him a bit preoccupied these days. Friday's revelation that Jim Tressel forwarded emails to a mentor of quarterback Terrelle Pryor might be the deal-breaker for the Buckeyes coach. Remember, these are the emails that he wouldn't share with his superiors because Tressel was worried about "privacy" issues. Apparently the emails weren't sensitive enough to keep from a 67-year-old owner of a Jeanette, Pa., glass company. It's hard to envision Tressel lasting any longer as this coverup builds. It's only a matter of time and definition -- when the coach will leave and what it will be called. Firing? Resignation? It doesn't really matter at this point. Here's why Friday's news is so damning: If you remember at the March 8 press conference, Tressel was asked by Yahoo! Sports' Dan Wetzel if the coach had shared the emails with anyone else. As Tressel started to say yes, Smith intervened saying that couldn't be discussed, there was an ongoing investigation. Reminds us once again that the cover up is always worse than the crime. This particular situation doesn't necessarily reflect badly on Pryor or Ted Sarniak, who was well known during the quarterback's recruiting process as a mentor. It was to the point, according to a source, that recruiters were dealing with Sarniak more than his high school coach. I was in Jeanette during that recruiting process and went to interview Sarniak at his Jeanette Glass Company offices. It was unannounced because I couldn't track him down on the phone. I was never able to find him. The school vetted the relationship between Pryor and Sarniak according to the Columbus Dispatch. "He's [Sarniak] not a bad guy and he's got money," a person close to Pryor told me. "I don't think he did it [mentored Pryor] for the money." This is more about Tressel. On the surface, he not only withheld information regarding -- let's not forget -- a federal investigation from his superiors. He also went off the reservation in sharing the emails with a person outside the university. Not even a parent -- a "mentor." Let's be clear: A glass company owner in western Pennsylvania apparently knew Pryor's name had popped up during a federal investigation before Ohio State's president or athletic director. Poor Gene Smith. His basketball team is driving for the Final Four. That Final Four is a week away and Smith is in charge of it, the NCAA's top moneymaker. But those issues probably aren't in the top five in his mental Rolodex at the moment. We'll know for sure if there is an empty seat at courtside Saturday at the Honda Center.

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Discount tattoos for some personal items isn't a major violation brah. If it was, they'd be suspended the whole season, which means they'd all be in the draft.

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It's Tressel's actions that are the major violation, not the individual players involved.

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It's Tressel's actions that are the major violation, not the individual players involved.

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This.

I think it's cool of Tressel to look out for his players like that. Unfortunately, I don't think the NCAA will see things that way

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Discount tattoos for some personal items isn't a major violation brah. If it was, they'd be suspended the whole season, which means they'd all be in the draft.

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it equals selling memorabilia, which got AJ Green a 4 game suspension.

and tell me where a coach knowingly playing ineligible players and hiding their NCAA violations falls on the scale, brah

as stated in the article: "Reminds us once again that the cover up is always worse than the crime."

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and tell me where a coach knowingly playing ineligible players and hiding their NCAA violations falls on the scale, brah

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Can't you read? Look at the previous post brah. I wasn't referring to Tressel's actions at all. I was solely talking about the players' actions.

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if a violation gets players suspended for multiple games, i'd say it's major. that's just me tho.

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So if a player fails a drug test for weed thats a major violation?

Christ most major programs start the year with some players suspended for off the field shite during the off season.