So what's worse than going down in flames? That stage was a few days ago, when the head coach was fired quit for the good of the university and stories were coming out about multiple tattoo parlors and dozens of players and oh, yeah, cars.
But there's more! Like, hourly.
Now That School in Oho (TSIO) has some more explaining to do. Gee. Pryor has been fired quit "for the good of his team" and, perhaps, so he doesn't have to talk to those pesky people from the NCAA any more. Because they might like to ask him about the cash and checks (!!!) he's been getting for signing memorabilia.
For years.
That's okay, though, because the good people at the NCAA can still ask the officials at TSIO who might know something about it, because they warned off the guy who was handing out the wads o' cash and checks (memo: signed crap from "amateur" athlete).
They warned him off last year.
And then there are all those emails and calls and texts TSIO just released, and even more intriguing all the ones it held back. Turns out, Tressel texted more than your average 12-year-old girl with a hair crisis.
This is not a institution lacking in appropriate controls. This is an institution gone wild.
It's more entertaining than a train wreck. I'm powerless to stop watching even as I struggle to process it all. But here's one thing to take cold comfort in: the last decade's record against Michigan is now 9-1*, and the asterisk keeps getting bigger every day.
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