bukIpower:
"When do we start looking at what Tressel is doing here?"
We don't. Look, I don't know how many of you went to
OSU, lived on, or spent a great deal of time on campus: YOU HAVE TO HAVE INHUMAN WILLPOWER OR BE MARY POPPINS TO NOT GET IN TROUBLE ON CAMPUS. Its probably increased 1000% if you are a football player on said campus.
Its not Tressel's fault. Every
OSU Coach has had and will continue to have these problems.
OSU is the single largest campus in the country (or 2nd to UCLA, I'm not sure of the exact totals), and its not spread out. Its basically 25 square blocks of 18 to 22 year olds. There are more drugs, liquor, women, debauchery, and opportunity to get into trouble than anyplace in the world. And this includes Las Vegas. C, Tibbs, or someone that went there the same time that I did can back me up on this.
Now, considering how important football is in the state, imagine three times the opportunity for trouble would be available to a player as opposed to a normal student (which is considerable). Its impossible for any one man (even if he is the head football coach) to reign in 100+ of these kids. Impossible.
Don't kid yourself: this same EXACT stuff happened under Cooper. The difference is, Ohio State isn't the lovable Midwest school that teases and chokes away the National Championship every year. We won the Title, and now we're somebody the media can gain from by taking us down. You just hear about this stuff now, but it was always there.
I always laugh when Playboy or Forbes magazine lists its "Top Party Schools in America." If they only knew. You can take the last 50 winners of that honor, combine them, and they wouldn't equal the stuff that goes on at
OSU. You can't blame Tressel at all.
And the bottom line is (to quote my Dad approximately 10 minutes after the scUM game was over), "Well, if there was any heat on Tressell, there ain't anymore. No Ohio State coach who's 3-1 against scUM is going anywhere." And you can book that.