Timeline Leading Up to Jim Tressel’s Resignation

Here’s a brief timeline of events leading up to Jim Tressel’s resignation. I probably should start this list with the day Tressel inked Terrelle Pryor, but let’s just fast-forward to that fateful March night when Yahoo exposed Tressel for lying. It was all downhill from there. Tressel had a nice run. Seven Big Ten titles. One National title (2002). It’s over. Bring on the sanctions.

March 8, 2011: Jim Tressel and Ohio State Could Face Major Violations For Not Disclosing Memorabilia Scandal

March 9, 2011: Jim Tressel’s Self-Defense is Implausible and Dishonest

March 18, 2011: Jim Tressel Changes Story, Now Blames Failure To Seek “Wise Counsel”

March 25, 2011: Tressel caught in a lie about the Memorabilia Scandal

April 22, 2011: Beano Cook is Like Everyone Else: He Thinks Urban Meyer Will Follow Jim Tressel at Ohio State

April 28, 2011: Former Buckeye Eddie George on Jim Tressel: “If it were anybody other than Tressel, he’d be fired”

May 7, 2011: “Ohio State’s Compliance Staff Investigating ‘At Least 50′ Automobile Sales To Athletes and Their Families”

May 24, 2011: Ohio State basketball blogger says he was surprised by all the really nice cars the football players drove.

May 26, 2011: Ohio State Buckeyes Are Angry with Ray Small and Hammering Him on Twitter Edit

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17 Responses to “Timeline Leading Up to Jim Tressel’s Resignation”

KC Resident Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 11:10 AM

What a fucking coward. He could have had the decency to resign on Flag Day.

KC Resident Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 11:14 AM

That being said, he only broke NCAA rules and fuck the NCAA.

Lisk or any other lawyers out there – Could the players get in trouble for not paying taxes on the cars?

Chelsea Chris Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 11:21 AM

Seven Big Ten titles. One National title

How many get vacated? I would be 2010 for sure…maybe more?

dontnomuch Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 11:22 AM

Lisk or any other lawyers out there – Could the players get in trouble for not paying taxes on the cars?

I’m not a lawyer but I do watch Oprah once in a while…the people who won those Pontiacs a few years ago had to pay taxes on the vehicles…but these players are scholar-athletes, so I doubt it.

HuskerDawg Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 11:29 AM

Crazy fall for sure. Pretty sure millions of other Big 10 fans want to thank Pryor and the Tatoo-5. Maybe now OSU won’t hammer that shit league every year.

99straws Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 11:29 AM

If they didn’t get in trouble for recruiting violations can they still lose scholarships?

traderjack21 Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 11:31 AM

If they didn’t get in trouble for recruiting violations can they still lose scholarships?

Yes. See: USC

Roethlishotdog Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 11:41 AM

Really, you could extend this timeline way back to his days at YSU, the Clarett scandal, all the money Holmes, et. al. took, and then this scandal. He’s been shady from day one, and it took decades for it to finally catch up to him.

mmonast Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 11:50 AM

Yes. See: USC

I don’t have it handy but there was an article written about why you can’t compare osu and usc’s situations at all. Most of it had to do with the fact that osu self reported all of it while USC did not.

/long live the vest

46yearslump Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 11:53 AM

In 2 years when Urban is coaching at TOSU, all the Buckeye haters will be longing for the day when Tressel was blowing NC games with his stale offense. Tressel jumped on the grenade for the program as most fans expected he would. With his departure goes most of the NCAA heat. If Meyer was starting from scratch, he would have them back in 2 years. He won’t be starting from scratch…and btw, Penn State and Michigan will still be irrelevant.

Roethlishotdog Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 11:59 AM

Tressel jumped on the grenade for the program as most fans expected he would.

If you’re going to use that analogy I’d argue that he was the one who made the grenade and then pulled the pin in the first place.

heldover Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 12:09 PM

If you’re going to use that analogy I’d argue that he was the one who made the grenade and then pulled the pin in the first place.

Where can I send my payment for subscription to your newsletter?

reggie_dunlap Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 12:10 PM

Wow, just logged into the world today and see this. So he was more or less “asked” to resign rather than being fired?

reggie_dunlap Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 12:13 PM

No way did he fall on a grenade either. This program will be set back 3 or more years now with everything that is coming out and the NCAA sniffing blood. Meyer will not take on this headache.

mmonast Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 12:20 PM

IMO all the coaching talk is premature…august is when osu finds it’s fate. As of now the NCAA hasn’t re-opened it’s investigation (not after the cars or after ray small). I guess that could change after the si article but we’ll see. Personally I thought punishment was going to be not as extreme as USC and even if it is usc’s level I doubt that would keep a big time name away.

At the very least luke fickell (who a lot of buckeye fans considered the unofficial coach in waiting) gets a few years to see what he can do and ride the storm out.

mmonast Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 12:24 PM

No way did he fall on a grenade either. This program will be set back 3 or more years now with everything that is coming out and the NCAA sniffing blood. Meyer will not take on this headache.

Like I said, the NCAA hasn’t re opened it’s investigation yet… Until they do then it’s still just tress and the coverup and not any of this other stuff. SI article should be interesting.

Jim Harbaugh Scramble Says:
May 30th, 2011 at 6:52 PM