Fireworks, hot dogs and a parade salute to Jim Tressel and Terrelle Pryor

People, you need to stop this bickering! What's done is done! Tressel and Terrelle (correct spellings, by the way!)are gone, and were forced out for lying to protect players and for being a problem-child, respectively. OSU will take their penalties, suck it up, and move on. Stop bringing race into this........."it's always the black man's fault", and so-on and so-forth. Please, GIVE ME A FREAKIN' HUGE BREAK!!! Who recruited Pryor to Ohio State to play for a really good team and to get a quality education (TP was an honors student with a paltry amount of hours left till he graduates)? Who threw away his career (maybe) protecting Pryor? Who was like a father figure to TP, a phrase he uses openly? I could go on and on. You guessed it, James P. Tressel, a white man!!!!!!!!!!! Fans blame JT just as much as Pryor! If you don't believe me, go down to the campus of The Ohio State University and see for yourself! Half are for Tressel, half are against him! And you Wolverine fans........STFU! You guys never do anything wrong. DickRod ring a bell? I thought so. The Fab Five-Ed Martin scandal, in one of the all-time biggest college sports scandals, ring a bell? Thought so! The Death Penalty? PLEASE! Are you serious?! Ohio State's List of Allegations is not/will not be close to that of U$C and N. Carolina's and won't be in the same hemisphere as $MU in the 1980's when they received that particular penalty. Remember, the SMU situation at the time involved the Governor of Texas, an SMU grad, making several payments to SMU football players. If you watched that ESPN 30 for 30 special on the SMU Death Penalty, no program comes that close to what they were doing. Their problems led to the end of the SWC years later, a conference death penalty, so-to-speak!

the blackeyes deserve everything they get for all the scandals and cheating they've done over the years. it warms my heart and makes my day.! GO WOLVERINES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Amazing how ignorant and or forgetfull some people are! A lot of these young kids grew up with nothing! They got to where they are through hard work. Then the colleges recruit them and treat them like the privledged from day one on campus! These athletes generate millions of dollars for the schools they play for! Jim Tressel didn't see black or white, he saw a young man make some bad choices driven by wanting the same things kids with wealthy families have! If you haven't played sports and understand how protective coaches feel about their kids you have no idea! Jim lied to protect his kids which was a bad choice. It cost him the thing that he loved the most and he was exceptional at, his coaching career! That is a pretty high price to pay for protecting your kids from the press that would have and finally did exploit those players for selling college football memrobilia! If it was Michigan, Nebraska or whomever it doesn't matter. The real issue is about bringing the NCAA up to this century. If you take away college football then you loose most all of the athletic programs on campus! What should expectations be for a handful of gifted warriors meeting head to head so we can watch on Saturday afternoon, knowing that on any play thier career or life could end with one bad accident! We pay for our tickets and drink our beer and cheer for our teams! They go back to the locker rooms bruised and beaten up getting ready for the next battle for us to enjoy! Meanwhile millions are being poured into the coffers and we expect our heros to be above making wrong decisions. If a student studying medicine were to sell an award that they were given for a presentation, should their career be ruined by the press?

lol this makes me laugh, Tressel was dirty from day one, look no further then Youngstown state, OSU was just a bigger school with a bigger booster budget to use to get the best recruits. Yeah he did win some games and 9-1 record vs Michigan and 1 national title (few other national title chokes in there as well), but when you give cars away like oprah you will get the best players.

osu was lucky not to be given death penalty. they deserve it; but wont get it because ncaa wont punish the so called big boys.

To all you haters, nobody is making you watch or participate in the parade, so get over it.

You are free to move Skip ole boy.

how do you cheat??

Tressel is indefensable.. he lied.. he knew the possible consequences and still chose to lie.. He lied to the NCAA, the fans of OSU, and possibly to who he answered to at OSU. Is Pryer guilty.. of course.. just like all the players who got theirs before Pryer.. Is Pryer to blame.. certainly not.. Tressel lied.. period. He chose poorly.

cheaters

Tressel was doing this long before he met Pryor. He was in trouble at Youngstown state, where his QB who won a national championship was found to have gotten improper benefits from a guy TRESSEL INTRODUCED HIM TO. His starting QB who won a Heisman trophy, was found to have gotten improper benefits. The top high school player in the country started for him as a freshman RB and led OSU to a national championship and was found to gotten improper benefits FROM A GUY TRESSEL INTRODUCED HIM TO. Bottom line, Tressel is a cheater and a liar. Can a coach watch every player? No, but I guarantee he knows what his top recruits are up to. I guarantee he keeps track of his starting QB's, Heisman trophy winners, national championship winners, and potential first round draft choices. Tressel was concerned about WINNING, nothing more, nothing less. Protecting his players? Give me a break. The real mentors are those people who DON'T COVER FOR YOU. If you catch your kid stealing candy, you drag his butt back to the store and make him confess, return it, then spank his butt. You don't eat the damn candy WITH HIM.

If it ticks off the sport journalist, OSU haters, and Michigan fans, then I'm all for it.

A good buddy of mine is a Buckeye and sat down with me for this interview I thought you might like.... http://sportschump.net/2011/06/27/conversation-wi...

Racst trasy in a racist town. It's a good bet they wouldn't have a float like that in Chicago. Tressel had been doing his dirty deeds for years at other college football programs. Funny how many in Columbus forget or don't want to remember what that a-holle did at those programs. One things for certain he's toast. He'll NEVER get another coaching gig as sweet as Ohio State!!!

It is funny how people try to defend Tressel. Like free said it has been going on for years.. How do you think you beat Michigan so many years? YA CHEATED and the only thing worse then cheating is getting caught cheating.. The only thing worse then getting caught cheating is having to live in Ohio.

FREE you are a lame. Pryor is the one, among other players, who got OSU in this kind of mess. Tressel actually tried to protect him. I think all of this speaks to how impossible it is to coach athletes who feel like they are owed something and are treated like millionaires before they actually are. But of course you brought race into it. Typical BS, no substance response.

Of course they did, it doesn't matter that Tressel did the same kind of things at his previous job, or has been going on at Ohio State before Pryor, it's always the black man's fault.