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发帖数: 764 | 1 The NCAA has notified Ohio State University that it will not face charges of
failing to appropriately monitor its football team as part of a memorabilia
-sales scandal that brought down former Coach Jim Tressel.
The NCAA has not uncovered any new, unreported violations during its
investigation and agrees with Ohio State that Tressel was the only
university official aware of violations by his players and that he failed to
report them.
"Other than (two redacted player names) and (Ted) Sarniak, there is no
indication that Tressel provided or discussed the information he received ..
. with anyone else, particularly athletics administrators," the NCAA
reported in an enforcement staff case summary.
In the summary that was delivered to Ohio State yesterday and released today
, the NCAA again stresses that Tressel failed in his duty to report the
violations and knowingly fielded at least two ineligible players.
The NCAA will not hammer Ohio State with its worst-possible findings of loss
of institutional control or failure to monitor, which would bring
significant punishment.
"Considering the institution's rules education and monitoring efforts, the
enforcement staff did not believe a failure to monitor charge was
appropriate in this case," the NCAA informed Ohio State.
The NCAA also reported that it investigated a Sports Illustrated report that
identified nine additional players as selling OSU memorabilia to tattoo-
parlor owner Edward Rife and interviewed the athletes, but confirmed only
one as dealing with the man who is soon to be sentenced on marijuana-
trafficking charges.
Ohio State also released today the 139-page transcript of a 5-hour interview
with Tressel on Feb. 8, in response to a public-records request by The
Dispatch. The transcript was submitted to the NCAA on July 8 as part of its
response to the charges.
Tressel resigned on May 30 at Athletic Director Gene Smith's request, unable
to survive a scandal that stained the university's reputation and prompted
the school to vacate its 12-1 record and Big Ten and Sugar Bowl
championships of last season.
Tressel was interviewed by both university and NCAA officials. The
transcript portrays himas torn and frightened after receiving emails in
April 2010 from lawyer Christopher Cicero reporting that at least two of his
players had sold memorabilia to Rife and were associating with a man being
investigated for drug trafficking.
Tressel said he shared the information only with Sarniak, a Jeannette, Pa.,
businessman who is a mentor to departed quarterback Terrelle Pryor and whom
the coach described as a father figure to Pryor.
"And so those next couple weeks, in my mind, I spent a lotta time, you know,
pounding, pounding, pounding and also wondering, 'Where do I - you know,
where do I look for some help with this?' Cause to me, it wasn't simply an
NCAA rule. And I'm not belittling the importance for an NCAA rule. But it
was way beyond an NCAA rule. I mean, it was a security issue. It was a
federal criminal issue. It was a narcotics issue. You know, it - you know,
where do you turn?"
Tressel conceded he made a mistake in not sharing what he knew. He said if
the issue came up today, he would go to university lawyers, because it
involved a federal law-enforcement matter.
"I can't say that I thought about going to Doug (Archie) or Julie (Vannatta)
or Gene, you know? Yeah. I don't - you know, I can't sit here and say to
you that I consciously said, 'Yes, I should,' and then, 'I shouldn't.' "
Tressel said he was most concerned about his players.
"I mean my heart was torn out about having the NCAA things and going through
all that and embarrassing our school and all that. I mean, that rips your
guts out. But not like a guy being convicted of drug trafficking or, you
know, being one of the ones that the feds are using to go get the next guy,
and, you know, those kind of things."
Tressel said he knew that NCAA sanctions were "inevitable."
"It was pretty simple. We were either gonna be horribly in trouble from a
criminal standpoint, or we're gonna be minorly involved in drug, you know,
buying and stuff, or we're gonna face the NCAA reality that we did some
things with our memorabilia we're not allowed to do. I was totally confident
one of those was gonna happen."
Tressel said he never directly confronted the two players identified by
Cicero as selling memorabilia - their names were redacted, but other records
have identified one as Pryor, who is turning pro, and the other as wide
receiver DeVier Posey, who is still on the team.
The former coach said he talked to Pryor and the other player "for two
minutes max. And, the message was, 'I'm hearing things. They're bad things.
Better stay away from people. You know we've talked about this often.' "
However, in the NCAA enforcement staff case summary, one player told NCAA
investigators that Tressel did bring up Rife by name and informed him that
some of his memorabilia had been seized by federal authorities from Rife's
house. The player reported that Tressel said: "Whatever you guys did, I don'
t want to know, but when it comes back up, just make sure you tell the truth
."
The second player said that Tressel was not specific with him about his
knowledge, saying that the coach told him to "be smart" and not sell any
memorabilia.
But, Tressel said he never mentioned Rife and never told the players that
their names were associated with "a criminal situation." He denied telling
the players he did not want to know of the details underlying their
memorabilia dealings.
The coach reported he said: "'Hey, this is serious. You better stay away.'
It was not interrogative from the standpoint of you know, 'Are you using
drugs? Are you getting drugs? Are you selling memorabilia?' ... I don't know
whatever else they could be involved with, but you know, I didn't go
through a laundry list of 'are you?'"
During the interview, Tressel said he told Vannatta, OSU's senior assistant
general counsel for athletics, on Dec. 16 that he had received a tip "from a
kid that's an attorney" who was "a walk-on player for us."
Tressel said he told Vannatta he couldn't remember the attorney's name and
that he didn't share any information from the emails that Cicero had sent
informing him of two players' OSU memorabilia sale.
Tressel said he didn't mention the e-mails at the time because "I guess in
my mind I wasn't sure what the relevance was."
A source close to Ohio State's investigation of the case said Tressel was
mistaken when he said during his interview that he told Vannatta that he had
received a tip from an attorney and ex-walk on player later identified as
Cicero.
Compliance director Archie, Athletic Director Smith, Vannatta and two others
were present for the discussion with Tressel after university officials had
interviewed players about their dealings with Rife, the source said.
Archie, Smith and Vannatta said in interviews that Tressel only spoke of
receiving a tip involving his players' "lifestyle choices" and did not
describe who provided the tip or its details, the source said.
In a statement, Ohio State said that the NCCA's findings "all make clear
that when Coach Tressel was interviewed by a number of people within the
institution ... he did not share his knowledge about the NCAA violation."
The university has stated it had no knowledge that Tressel knew of the
violations until the emails from Cicero were discovered on Jan. 13.
OSU officials are scheduled to appear before the NCAA's Infractions
Committee on Aug. 12. The NCAA will decide whether to accept the OSU-imposed
penalties or apply further sanctions. | g*********d
发帖数: 8125 | 2 which fan base is more pissed? Michigan or USC?
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【在 H*****r 的大作中提到】
: The NCAA has notified Ohio State University that it will not face charges of
: failing to appropriately monitor its football team as part of a memorabilia
: -sales scandal that brought down former Coach Jim Tressel.
: The NCAA has not uncovered any new, unreported violations during its
: investigation and agrees with Ohio State that Tressel was the only
: university official aware of violations by his players and that he failed to
: report them.
: "Other than (two redacted player names) and (Ted) Sarniak, there is no
: indication that Tressel provided or discussed the information he received ..
: . with anyone else, particularly athletics administrators," the NCAA
| b**j
发帖数: 20742 | 3 has to be michigan. lol
oregon, unc, and maybe lsu/auburn, 估计也都大大松了一口气
http://images.ridemonkey.com/index.php?size=full&src=http%3A%2F%2Fjimfairthorne.files.wordpress.com%2F2009%2F09%2Fnelson-muntz.jpg
【在 g*********d 的大作中提到】
: which fan base is more pissed? Michigan or USC?
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| b**j
发帖数: 20742 | 4 大好消息啊。哈哈哈哈哈。就是JT背了黑锅。总有一天，我们会给你塑像立碑的。
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【在 H*****r 的大作中提到】
: The NCAA has notified Ohio State University that it will not face charges of
: failing to appropriately monitor its football team as part of a memorabilia
: -sales scandal that brought down former Coach Jim Tressel.
: The NCAA has not uncovered any new, unreported violations during its
: investigation and agrees with Ohio State that Tressel was the only
: university official aware of violations by his players and that he failed to
: report them.
: "Other than (two redacted player names) and (Ted) Sarniak, there is no
: indication that Tressel provided or discussed the information he received ..
: . with anyone else, particularly athletics administrators," the NCAA
| H*****r
发帖数: 764 | 5 也别高兴得太早,早上听广播说某人好像又发现你们OSU的什么猛料了
【在 b**j 的大作中提到】
: 大好消息啊。哈哈哈哈哈。就是JT背了黑锅。总有一天，我们会给你塑像立碑的。
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| o****3
发帖数: 5100 | | o****3
发帖数: 5100 | | t****r
发帖数: 1506 | 8 不可爱认罪态度良好。小背心背了黑锅，NCAA顺水推舟送了人情。 | W********s
发帖数: 2256 | | b**j
发帖数: 20742 | 10 http://espn.go.com/blog/bigten/post/_/id/29504/ncaa-outlook-muc
you mean this? "That great news for the Buckeyes came on the heels of an ear
lier TV report that said Tressel had informed school compliance officials in
December about the violations involving tattoo parlor owner Edward Rife. If
true, that would mean the school falsely claimed a month later that it had
no knowledge of the situation. Ohio State officials forcefully denied the tr
uth of that report, however. "
【在 H*****r 的大作中提到】
: 也别高兴得太早,早上听广播说某人好像又发现你们OSU的什么猛料了
| p**m
发帖数: 11571 | 11 NCAA真傻逼，为啥不一下子搞死OSU永世不让翻身。
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【在 H*****r 的大作中提到】
: The NCAA has notified Ohio State University that it will not face charges of
: failing to appropriately monitor its football team as part of a memorabilia
: -sales scandal that brought down former Coach Jim Tressel.
: The NCAA has not uncovered any new, unreported violations during its
: investigation and agrees with Ohio State that Tressel was the only
: university official aware of violations by his players and that he failed to
: report them.
: "Other than (two redacted player names) and (Ted) Sarniak, there is no
: indication that Tressel provided or discussed the information he received ..
: . with anyone else, particularly athletics administrators," the NCAA
| Y******e
发帖数: 20256 | 12 NCAA又不是中纪委，不能搞双规呀。看看阿奔的事情，搞了差不多一年，还没有了结，
还在慢慢磨。 |
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