Jim Tressel Exchanged “Numerous Emails, Phone calls and Text Messages,” After Being Alerted Players Were Selling Memorabilia

1-liner, All, College Football Ty Duffy April 25th. 2011, 10:00am

Tresselgate: The Columbus Dispatch has revealed Jim Tressel exchanged “numerous emails, phone calls and text messages with the tipster, his star quarterback Terrelle Pryor and Pryor’s mentors” contradicting his initial claim he was scared and kept the information to himself after learning his players had exchanged memorabilia for tattoos. There’s no indication he alerted his bosses or Ohio State compliance. The emails reveal nothing substantial we did not know already. Without the content of the phone calls and texts, there’s nothing damning here. [Dispatch]

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65 Responses to “Jim Tressel Exchanged “Numerous Emails, Phone calls and Text Messages,” After Being Alerted Players Were Selling Memorabilia”

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SouvenirCity Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:01 AM
Didn’t we already know this? I’m honestly asking.
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KC Resident Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:03 AM
So, the point of this post is what?
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reggie_dunlap Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:04 AM
So, Tressel is out, right? Maybe they can add RichRod! HA!
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TheBigLead Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:06 AM
initially, Tressel said he had no contact.
then it came out that he did receive an email from a guy.
now, more: emails, texts, phone calls.
what’s next?
i’m all for deny, deny, deny … but when you’re an employee of the state, how does he NOT know all of this is tracked?
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tyduffy Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:07 AM
Didn’t we already know this? I’m honestly asking.
No. The emails, phone calls and text’s existence is new. But, there’s nothing damning from them. Entirely plausible Tressel wanted to talk to his starting quarterback about football.
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YouKnowMeAl Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:07 AM
So, the point of this post is what?
it answers anyone asking, where’s the OSU post?
/omniscient
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oskie Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:09 AM
at least you guys know that college football is a fun topic to talk about. don’t need much to start a convo.
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HuskerDawg Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:09 AM
What TBL said. This just hammers home how full of shit OSU is about this whole mess. Tressel is in trouble, here. I didn’t think his job was in jeopardy when this first hit, but that is no longer the case. The NCAA could put pressure on the Admin at OSU to distance themselves from Tressel a la Tennessee and Pearl.
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tyduffy Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:09 AM
So, the point of this post is what?
Notable, not earth-shattering. Which is why it’s in a 1-liner.
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sportsdork Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:09 AM
The real crime here is that we’re going to have to see more of that dipshit E Gordon Gee.
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Roethlishotdog Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:10 AM
I was hoping this post would at least have a pic of Tressel in that ridiculous camo outfit from Sat.
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Senator Jersey Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:12 AM
Duffy. Not to criticize, but this post is missing an important piece of media.
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HuskerDawg Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:13 AM
I think OSU will get hit with some lost schollies and probation. I don’t see them getting any bowl ban or B10 title game ban. The lost schollies will hurt though, especially in the B10 where oversigning is verboten.
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Gaseous Clay Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:14 AM
So, the point of this post is what?
Notable, not earth-shattering. Which is why it’s in a 1-liner.
nice jumping off point for some irrational ranting, which can hopefully devolve into some high quality regional pissing matches.
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coop247 Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:15 AM
Was hoping there was going to be an institutional control charge, but there wasnt. Just ethical misconduct and playing ineligible players.
I was hoping this post would at least have a pic of Tressel in that ridiculous camo outfit from Sat.
He’s finally embracing my “Tressel is Hitler” contention.
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BFFredo Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:15 AM
So, the point of this post is what?
It’s connective tissue to something bigger later on.
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TheBigLead Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:16 AM
how can you be a football fan and NOT love this sentence?
Ohio State University is potentially facing the most severe NCAA penalties to its storied football program as punishment for coach Jim Tressel’s failure to disclose his knowledge of violations and use of ineligible players during this past season.
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mmonast Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:16 AM
At least osu can keep the sugar bowl win regardless of what happens
Tressel’s slumpbuster lives on!
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kazzythekid Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:16 AM
What else needs to come out for Tressel to get the boot out of Columbus?
And who is releasing this info to The Dispatch? It just says they obtained documents in their article.
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TheBigLead Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:18 AM
odds Tressel is coaching this fall?
i would have said 2:1 but now i’m starting to think maybe it’s closer to 5:1?
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karma Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:18 AM
Tresselgate:
I’m just outside the County Courtroom where an argument
about chowder has spilled over into the biggest trial in Springfield history. Behind these doors, a federal judge will ladle out steaming bowls of rich, creamy justice in a case the media have dubbed “Beat-Up Waiter.” This reporter suggested “Waitergate”, but was howled down at the press club.
/ obligatory Simpsons’d
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coop247 Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:18 AM
who is releasing this info to The Dispatch
They got the phone records via FOIA request.
At least osu can keep the sugar bowl win regardless of what happens
Are you sure? I though when even 1 ineligible player plays the game is forfeited.
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HuskerDawg Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:19 AM
how can you be a football fan and NOT love this sentence?
I don’t follow you. I love CFB and I don’t particularly like it when teams get hit for this stuff. I want the best teams playing good ball. It’s better when USC is good and the ND-USC game matters, for example.
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HuskerDawg Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:20 AM
Are you sure? I though when even 1 ineligible player plays the game is forfeited.
The NCAA cleared them for the Sugar Bowl…which is hilarious.
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cracker jack Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:25 AM
Tresselgate:
I’m just outside the County Courtroom where an argument
about chowder has spilled over into the biggest trial in Springfield history. Behind these doors, a federal judge will ladle out steaming bowls of rich, creamy justice in a case the media have dubbed “Beat-Up Waiter.” This reporter suggested “Waitergate”, but was howled down at the press club.
/ obligatory Simpsons’d
I really, really, really want this ‘scandal-gate’ thing to die a horrible death. Cant we start a revolt against it somehow?
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TK Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:25 AM
I’m just outside the County Courtroom where an argument
about chowder has spilled over into the biggest trial in Springfield history. Behind these doors, a federal judge will ladle out steaming bowls of rich, creamy justice in a case the media have dubbed “Beat-Up Waiter.” This reporter suggested “Waitergate”, but was howled down at the press club.
“Say it Frenchie!”
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mmonast Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:26 AM
I was hoping this post would at least have a pic of Tressel in that ridiculous camo outfit from Sat.
They were doing something to honor the military @ the spring game. Players had some sort of camo helmets
/still looked ridiculous
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karma Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:28 AM
The funniest part of that episode:
Homer: What does “sequestered” mean?
Skinner: If the jury is deadlocked they’re put up in a hotel together
so they can’t communicate with the outside world.
Homer: What does “deadlocked” mean?
Skinner: It’s when the jury can’t agree on a verdict.
Homer: Uh huh. And “if”?
Skinner: A conjunction meaning “in the event that” or “on condition
that”.
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rittyrich Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:28 AM
Ohio State to be Auburn’s scapegoat. Or something.
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Watsonian Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:28 AM
especially in the B10 where oversigning is verboten.
Duffy?
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mizerle06 asks for the autoplay to be turned off Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:29 AM
this:
The Columbus Dispatch has revealed Jim Tressel exchanged “numerous emails, phone calls and text messages with the tipster, his star quarterback Terrelle Pryor and Pryor’s mentors” contradicting his initial claim he was scared and kept the information to himself after learning his players had exchanged memorabilia for tattoos.
does not compute with this:
Entirely plausible Tressel wanted to talk to his starting quarterback about football.
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phillymantis915 Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:29 AM
“Say it Frenchie!”
Never!
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mmonast Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:30 AM
Are you sure? I though when even 1 ineligible player plays the game is forfeited.
Ya, NCAA sent out the list of infractions against osu this morning; NCAA cleared the players so they can keep the bowl win. By the time this is all done osu will have another underrated season. 1-0
Also FWIW gene smith has said all along as long as no new rule violations come out, tress is going to survive this
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Senator Jersey Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:31 AM
I mean, do I really have to beg for it?
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mizerle06 asks for the autoplay to be turned off Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:31 AM
odds Tressel is coaching this fall?
i would have said 2:1 but now i’m starting to think maybe it’s closer to 5:1?
I thought there was NO chance Bruce Pearl would not be Tennessee’s coach next year.
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rittyrich Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:32 AM
Entirely plausible Tressel wanted to talk to his starting quarterback about football.
Funny, it was never plausible Cam went to Auburn to escape the shady money deals at Miss. State.
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PatFoleyLover Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:33 AM
Also FWIW gene smith has said all along as long as no new rule violations come out, tress is going to survive this
and don;t forget, tressel still hasn;t fired gordon gee
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HuskerDawg Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Also FWIW gene smith has said all along as long as no new rule violations come out, tress is going to survive this
Of course he’s going to say that, but when the NCAA comes calling, Tressel will be thrown under the bus to protect the school. That’s just how it is.
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mizerle06 asks for the autoplay to be turned off Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:34 AM
Funny, it was never plausible Cam went to Auburn to escape the shady money deals at Miss. State.
that would’ve derailed the biggest story in college football history, no?
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HuskerDawg Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:35 AM
Funny, it was never plausible Cam went to Auburn to escape the shady money deals at Miss. State.
Both are bullshit. Cam/Cecil took money and Tressel tried to cover this up.
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mmonast Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:36 AM
Oh I know husker, but I’m thinking that would be in play if the NCAA was throwing in failure to monitor or lack of control. Since they didn’t…
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rittyrich Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:36 AM
that would’ve derailed the biggest story in college football history, no?
Exactly.
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rittyrich Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:37 AM
Both are bullshit. Cam/Cecil took money and Tressel tried to cover this up.
You’d make a great juror for prosecutors everywhere.
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spencer096 Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:37 AM
TBL…how can you hate a program so much considering you don’t watch any college football?
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arkbadger Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:38 AM
Tressel’s slumpbuster lives on!
sobs uncontrollably.
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HuskerDawg Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:39 AM
You’d make a great juror for prosecutors everywhere.
You’re right. Cam and Cecil are totally clean and nothing shady went down at all. Completely on the up and up.
/hilarious
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mmonast Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:39 AM
that would’ve derailed the biggest story in college football history, no?
Imagine if the biggest story in college football history involved the most exciting player in coege football history. Th Internet would have just up and exploded
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rittyrich Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:40 AM
You’re right. Cam and Cecil are totally clean and nothing shady went down at all. Completely on the up and up.
/hilarious
I never said any of that.
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HuskerDawg Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:42 AM
I never said any of that.
You’ve insinuated it for the past 6 months.
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spencer096 Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:43 AM
You’ve insinuated it for the past 6 months.
that’s a leap of faith, bro.
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rittyrich Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:45 AM
You’ve insinuated it for the past 6 months.
I’ve insinuated an alternative scenario is plausible. That it is plausible Cam/Cecil never took anything. Personally, no, I don’t think they received any money from Auburn, but even if they didn’t, that doesn’t mean nothing shady went down. I think Cecil screwed up with Bell, Rogers, et al. And that’s it.
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mizerle06 asks for the autoplay to be turned off Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:45 AM
You’ve insinuated it for the past 6 months.
to rittyrich’s credit, I think it’s more apt to say he’s been saying “nobody knows what happened but there wasn’t even enough evidence for the NCAA to make anyhting of it” for the past six months. I think he’s also acknowledged that shady shit happens all the time in college football and wouldn’t besurprised at all if there was some shady stuff behind Newton being at Auburn.
just my take on his position.
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HuskerDawg Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:47 AM
Personally, no, I don’t think they received any money from Auburn
I think it came from boosters, not the school itself.
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rittyrich Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:51 AM
I think it came from boosters, not the school itself.
As far as I’m concerned, boosters are Auburn.
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rittyrich Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:52 AM
to rittyrich’s credit, I think it’s more apt to say he’s been saying “nobody knows what happened but there wasn’t even enough evidence for the NCAA to make anyhting of it” for the past six months. I think he’s also acknowledged that shady shit happens all the time in college football and wouldn’t besurprised at all if there was some shady stuff behind Newton being at Auburn.
Thanks for the objective endorsement. Husker doesn’t care though as he’s stuck in the role of being my commenter nemesis.
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HuskerDawg Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:55 AM
Thanks for the objective endorsement. Husker doesn’t care though as he’s stuck in the role of being my commenter nemesis.
Not at all. I just find it funny that you are such a devoted Cam devotee. If you weren’t an AU fan you’d probably not be so lax in judgement. You claim my distrust of AU is driving me, but you’re allegiances work the same way. Again, it’s plausible that Cam is clean, but if you had to bet your life savings, I suspect you’d bet against it.
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mizerle06 asks for the autoplay to be turned off Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:57 AM
Again, it’s plausible that Cam is clean, but if you had to bet your life savings, I suspect you’d bet against it.
dammit, Husker. read this:
Personally, no, I don’t think they received any money from Auburn, but even if they didn’t, that doesn’t mean nothing shady went down.
ritty JUST wrote that.
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HuskerDawg Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 10:58 AM
ritty JUST wrote that.
I know that, but him saying “something could have happened” doesn’t mean he thinks something did happen. He also wrote: Personally, no, I don’t think they received any money from Auburn
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spencer096 Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 11:00 AM
fuck the ncaa.
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mizerle06 asks for the autoplay to be turned off Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 11:00 AM
that doesn’t mean he thinks that Cam is completely clean. I really think your hatred of Auburn clouds your reading comprehension in this case, Husker. I get it, brah. as soon as something comes out about Bammer or Florida, Ima be all over that like a duck on a junebug.
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rittyrich Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 11:00 AM
I AM THE ENIGMA!
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HuskerDawg Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 11:07 AM
that doesn’t mean he thinks that Cam is completely clean
Yet he defends Cam (and AUB) as though they are.
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rittyrich Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 11:09 AM
Yet he defends Cam (and AUB) as though they are.
I stand by Auburn’s and the NCAA’s decisions to let Cam play for Auburn in 2010. From what I know and who I know, my opinion is that our compliance department went above and beyond in declaring Cam eligible given the NCAA’s current rule and regs.
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jekyll Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 11:22 AM
how can you be a football fan and NOT love this sentence?
Well you wouldn’t know, would you?
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conjugalbootz Says:
April 25th, 2011 at 1:25 PM
I really think your hatred of Auburn clouds your reading comprehension in this case, Husker. I get it, brah. as soon as something comes out about Bammer or Florida, Ima be all over that like a duck on a junebug.
I don’t think Husker is displaying animosity toward Auburn. Rather, and justifiably, the animosity is directed toward those who giddily grab their ankles for their favorite schools/players. Like Spencer does for OSU.