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I do. I'll say it again, the Zips WILL win.

Akron WILL win.

Let's just hope it isn't their own blood they are smelling.

Akron is equally matched against every team remaining. In a game between two equally matched teams, one team is more likely to blow the game than the other team winning (See Steelers vs. Packers). ZW is right. Not making mistakes is the key. Playing hard and not making mistakes puts pressure on the other team to perform. Pressure makes college kids stumble, especially in the MAC. Just don't make mistakes and they Zips go dancing. Make mistakes and the Zips go home. It's that simple. It's up the the players on the court at this point.

Reno and Tressel are not the same. Reno is a guy who committed a minor offense and resigned in lieu of harming his organization. Tressel is a liar, cheat and a phony because he lied to his boss about a major NCAA violation, cheated by having players on the field who shouldn't have been there and a phony because he falsely portrays the image he is a clean cut guy. The differences between these two people are vastly different. One is a good man, the other is a liar, cheat and a phony.

Thank you for your terrible advice.

It used to be that in our society, when a person was caught doing something wrong and it impacted those within his organization, the person did the dignified thing and resigned from their position. Today, you hire a lawyer and play the public relations game even when you are wrong. The truth is, Reno probably couldn't buy much with his check or could go out and get a job a Home Depot making about the same amount of money. There is a bid difference between that and the millions Tressel is making. Reno did the dignified thing. Tressel is playing the same scumbag game he has been playing for ten+ years now. There is a huge difference between what Reno did and what Tressel did. Reno didn't carry on a lie to save a football season or worse yet, his own ass like Tressel did. Reno also didn't have a potential National Championship season on the line...it's a bit easier to walk away from Akron's situation. Reno also never owned up to his wrongdoing, resigning instead. I guess it depends on perception...and on a forum full of anti-OSU sentiment, I know I'm not winning there lol. Let me get this straight. You are saying it is OK to lie to the president of tOSU, your direct supervisor (the AD) AND the NCAA if you have a potential national championship season ahead of you? On what planet is this OK? It has nothing to do with tOSU. At any other school, in any other job, these actions would get an employee fired. Only at tOSU could this go on. The SEC has nothing on tOSU. Reno took more risk. He gave up a low paying job for no money. What would Tressel give up?....He already has millions. Resigning from tOSU wouldn't hurt Tressel.

It used to be that in our society, when a person was caught doing something wrong and it impacted those within his organization, the person did the dignified thing and resigned from their position. Today, you hire a lawyer and play the public relations game even when you are wrong. The truth is, Reno probably couldn't buy much with his check or could go out and get a job a Home Depot making about the same amount of money. There is a bid difference between that and the millions Tressel is making. Reno did the dignified thing. Tressel is playing the same scumbag game he has been playing for ten+ years now. There is a huge difference between what Reno did and what Tressel did. Reno didn't carry on a lie to save a football season or worse yet, his own ass like Tressel did.

This guy was the lawyer sending notest to Tressel. If it was Paul Cicero, nobody would have found out. Interesting theme in all of these stories....There is mention of this guy being suspended for something. Isn't it funny that stories involving even people around Tressel have the word "suspended" in them? The funny thing about Tressel is this....You can take the boy out of Youngstown, but you can't take the Youngstown out of the boy. While he didn't grow up there, he picked up a lot of stench.

Since reporters don't actually investigate anything anymore in sports, I would say yes. It's OK to jut admit I was right.

Last April...... At a minimum, the following should happen to tOSU: 1. In ADDITION to the two game suspension, Liar, Liar pants on fire Tressel should be suspended by the Big Ten for five Big Ten games. 2. tOSU should have to forfeit all games in the 2010 Big Ten season for playing not one....not two....not three, but SIX ineligible players during the season. 3. Split equally among all Big Ten programs all BCS money earned from the Sugar Bowl. 4. Probation from bowls for at least one year. If the NCAA does not step in, this will reflect terribly on them. It will tell every coach and school it is OK to lie in an investigation AND continue to lie even when found out. What tOSU needs to do is fire Tressel, because it is going to get worse. ESPN hasn't moved on to another story so there must still be something out there. We have had this talk already this week. The Steelers fans believed they couldn't live without Cowher and they were able to replace him with a better coach. No tOSU fan should think for a single second Tressel can't be replaced. Everyone is replaceable. There is always someone out there smarter, with more money and better looking. tOSU is a football factory and the factory can run with or without Tressel.

I was the one who said it was great reporting....and I was right. Care to respond? Yep, I do. He cited one anonymous source (the cardinal rule of reporting is you have at least two), didn't tell the whole story (like including the actual evidence), and only gave Ohio State/Tressel three HOURS to respond to the report before being published. Bush. League. He had the biggest story since the steroid baseball stories 100% on the money. That was major league reporting.

I was the one who said it was great reporting....and I was right. Care to respond?

Holy cow is that a good article. I'm shocked someone from Ohio wrote it. Read the comments...OSU fans are killing the guy for telling the truth.

It isn't a court of law and Constitutional protections don't apply. There is a difference between an annonymous source in a basketball player deciding to move to Miami and say someone who might work in a US Attorney office. I have a feeling we haven't heard the last of the folks from the US Attorneys office in this case. Someone there knows something. It all starts with a report than unfolds. The author made a good point that Yahoo states it as fact and not an allegation. I wonder if Tressel is going go say the now famous words, "I did not have relations with that woman,"....sorry, wrong cover-up.

Now we know. Further question. Why would a US Attorney notify OSU of the stash of OSU junk the guy had on him?

AKRON is 10-8 against the spread versus E MICHIGAN since 1997 AKRON is 14-5 straight up against E MICHIGAN since 1997 5 of 9 games in this series have gone OVER THE TOTAL since 1997 E MICHIGAN is 1-0 against the spread versus AKRON over the last 3 seasons Eastern has only ONE mac victory on the road this year...Toledo, who only had ONE mac victory total. If we can't beat Eastern at home tonight, we don't deserve to be at the Q. Both literally and figuratively.......

I really don't care how often you see them. You're part of the apology train. Half court execution?....If you mean that "5 Guy Stand Around" offense they used to run, I don't buy it. The party line about KD, and you should know it, is that the defense will turn into offense through transition points. We've been hearing about it for years. I don't have to masochisticly go to game after game to know that. Let's not try to create a new reality about the past. KD has always tried to get points in transition through good defense. His problem is he has trouble developing players who can score on a regular basis. I do agree that making it to the finals is a good thing. The more you make it, the better chance you have to either win or be remembered as a guy who won one and lost more than his share....Bill Cowher. After a while, the sweet smell of the one victory can overcome the stench of loss after loss.

When aren't we rebuilding?....... He's been here seven years....how much more rebuilding can we take?

I don't know if there was anything illegal going on or not. They may be bit players in something else, but it is strange that a US Attorney stumbled upon it. It could be as harmless as during an investigation of something else, an informant offered to tell the US Attorney about OSU players trading stuff for tats thinking it was somehow illegal thinking it would help his case. US Attorney is OSU grad and informs the school of the potential problem. It could be more serious. All I want to know is....How did the US Attorney come about the information first? My guess is this might be one of the best parlors in Columbus. If so, the guy probably makes a good living owning it. Knowing the future money these guys are going to have, they aren't going to go cheap. They probably have plenty of under the table money.

Great posts DrZ!!! For those of you too young to remember anything other than ESPN, this is called "sports journalism". Good reporting. There is one thing I find most interesting about these stories. Why was OSU contacted by a local US Attorney? The government has no standing over the NCAA, so how did the US Attorney know anything was going on? Why did the US Attorney know about what was going on? Who was the US Attorney investigating? Was the owner of the tat parlor under some sort of investigation? Was one of the players under investigation for a crime? US Attorneys don't just walk around cities looking into tat parlors to see who is getting one. Getting a tat is not a crime. Selling that junk they sold for tats is not a crime so what was the US Attorney doing? Tressel breaking his contract is not a crime that I know of and if it was, the State Police would investigate it and not a US Attorney. Something is very odd with this story and the focus seems to be in the wrong place. Maybe there is nothing there, but how the information came out was very strange as should be looked into by the media.

I looked through this entire section and I don't see a single person really complaining. I think all of the comments have been fair and reasonable. The questions Big Zip started this section with were fair and could be asked at any point the last couple of seasons. Patience? This is his 7th season. He's the highest paid coach in the Athletic Department. Nobody thinks he should be let go. That sounds like we are being patient. With the exception of a small non-blinded minority, this board is a little too apologetic for the underperformance of the program as of late. This is Division I college basketball, not Walsh (although you wouldn't know that from our schedule). This is how people talk about programs at this level.

There is no doubt this is a good program, but not a great program. I'm not sure winning 20 with our schedule is all that difficult. I'd like to address the last sentence. I've always said KD is the Bill Cowher of the MAC. Cowher was a defensive/running game oriented coach who blew more AFC Championship games than he should have because of that. KD is the same way. The last sentence could also read...."His program has reached the conference final for four straight years, winning ONLY one, allowing a completely inferior Miami team to hang around and beat them, and going into overtime for a third (whatever that is supposed to mean)." Some said Bill Cowher could never be replaced by a better coach. I would argue the Steelers in fact DID replace him with a better coach with fresh and modern ideas, especially on offense. KD doesn't deserve to be fired, but never say he couldn't be replaced by someone better. There is always someone out there better. The only problem would be allowing our flunky of an athletic director to hire the next coach. If the hiring decision came down to Coach K or Dan Hip (or some other guy who worked with him somewhere out there), he would pick Hip.

He brought that tradition with him from Akron. They were hurt by guys getting hurt late in the season this year.

He sure was a tough guy. Wrestling in high school creates a very aggressive person.