Former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel, who won the Buckeyes’ last national championship in Jan. 2003, is on the field for the 2015 title game, roughly four years after resigning from his post at OSU due to NCAA sanctions.
Jim Tressel, blackballed by NCAA, is on the field for the National Championship
This probably doesn’t make Mark Emmert all that happy.
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Former #OSU & now HOF coach Jim Tressel at tonites National Championship game. Interview posted later pic.twitter.com/WeXi3dIn48
— Kenny Roda (@TheKennyRoda) January 12, 2015
Tressel, currently the president at Youngstown State, knowingly covered up NCAA violations that led to a one-year bowl ban. Not only did he lose his job, he also received a show-cause penalty that won’t let him coach college football again until 2017 (he said he doesn’t want to coach again). Yet here he is, on the field of the title game where the program that essentially forced him out will play. This is as good of a reminder as any that the NCAA doesn’t run college football’s postseason.
Elsewhere in honoring still-on-show-cause-Jim-Tressel: He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame.
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