Focus should be on Ohio State, Big Ten brass, not Pryor
June 1, 2011 6:08 PM
Generally there are three types of people who get blamed in major NCAA infraction cases.
The greedy player and/or player's family member; the bumbling assistant coach or the rogue agent and/or booster. Those are the folks who get labeled, fired, kicked out of school. It's almost never the head coach, athletic director or anyone else in power. The bosses deftly maintain plausible deniability while shifting the blame to an easier target.
This is what made the Jim Tressel/Ohio State case so unique -- an email paper trail that caught an iconic head coach. Tressel is gone now, resigning Monday after 10 seasons in Columbus.
Dan Wetzel
The greedy player and/or player's family member; the bumbling assistant coach or the rogue agent and/or booster. Those are the folks who get labeled, fired, kicked out of school. It's almost never the head coach, athletic director or anyone else in power. The bosses deftly maintain plausible deniability while shifting the blame to an easier target.
This is what made the Jim Tressel/Ohio State case so unique -- an email paper trail that caught an iconic head coach. Tressel is gone now, resigning Monday after 10 seasons in Columbus.
Dan Wetzel
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