12-22-2007, 07:36 AM
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Tressel's act of thanks irks NCAA
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel appreciates the value of classroom success. So he invited his two first-team Academic All-Americans last season, receiver Anthony Gonzalez and fullback Stan White Jr., to join him on a private jet to watch Ohio State's basketball team play in the Final Four in Atlanta.
Both players had exhausted their eligibility and signed with agents and were no longer considered current student-athletes. So nice reward for a job well done, right?
Not according to the NCAA. Ohio State was forced to self-report a secondary violation after OSU compliance director Doug Archie spotted White and Gonzalez sitting with Tressel.
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