Josh Benner

Tag: tressel

  • The one game season: and OSU football 2012

    I’ve never made excuses for Ohio State’s rules violations in 2010. Tressel needed to be out when everything came to light. The players who broke the rules were allowed to play in the 2011 Sugar Bowl after it had been known that they had sold memorabilia. Their suspensions were moved to the beginning ofthe 2011…

  • Resignation of Jim Tressel: 1 year later

    One year ago today, as I woke up in the late morning, I learned that Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel had resigned. A couple of months before, when the news that Tressel had lied about rules violations became public knowledge, in a press conference, a reporter asked if Tressel was going to be dismissed.…

  • Stop making excuses for Tressel

    The NCAA was aware of the rules violations of five Ohio State football players and affirmed five game suspensions for them earlier this year. Then things got much worse. It came to light Tressel knew about the violations and lied, and now there are reports that even more players had done the same thing. Pryor…