What this and similar articles all seem to have in common....
They start by talking about how Tressel was implicated in this situation, when he learned about the scenario through Cicero and he did not tell any of the compliance officers. A huge mistake no doubt, completely discounting the fact that there was an ongoing federal investigation that he would have had to deal with as well (nobody is completely sure what this effect actually is).
The articles then start to diverge into this downward slope of how many Buckeyes were getting hooked up at this place and what all THE PLAYERS did at this tattoo parlor and the others.
The extent of what these players did goes way beyond what Tressel knew about the situation, yet you would think by reading the article that JT was aware of all of this and let it slide.
Fact is he had learned about TWO players getting hooked up at this place, and did his own digging without letting it get to the compliance department.
While this was certainly a horrible move on this part, articles contain ZERO hard evidence to implicate him in ANYTHING beyond that mistake....
All they can say is..."Well if Tressel did this it's an NCAA violation"
Well yea, no shit. But until anyone sees some tangible proof of that, it's bunk IMO.
Through what this article has taught me, you would think the majority of the blame has to fall on the players for taking these extra benefits...moreso than Tressel hearing about two of them and trying to take it upon himself to fix, or not fix, these things are they were brought to his attention.
A really sad situation indeed, the darkest day in Ohio State history IMO.