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BuckeyeNation27;1932487; said:
I'm sorry......did you say enabling? When a bad parent shrugs and says boys will be boys while his/her brat throws rocks at passing cars, that's enabling. Straight up handing over $180k so a QB will come to your school is a little bit more than enabling.
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Actually, I think the Tressel thing would be more like the parent punishing their kid in house for throwing rocks at cars instead of turning him in to the police for vandalism (or whatever crime throwing rocks at cars is)...

It goes a bit further than that, and I think one of the biggest mistakes Tressel made was thinking he could still handle things in-house when his "kids" were more out of hand than he probably realized, but yeah, something like that.
 
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Andy Geiger weighs in on the departure of JT.

Ozone (Part 2 coming tomorrow)

What surprised me in talking with Geiger is that he seemed to be in total agreement with that thought on Tressel, that he is predictable and in this case acted in an entirely predictable manner.


"I agree that his first instinct is to protect,' said Geiger, who then took the thought a step further.


"He is, in my view far more than a football coach. He is in many ways a mentor, and would try to correct the problem from within and rectify the situation rather than have it become a 'cause celebre'. That fact is at once admirable, and (at the same time) the wrong thing to do."


Geiger's pronouncement that it was "the wrong thing to do" will certainly please those militating for the removal of Tressel, but Geiger then followed up his statement by stating the very dilemma that is causing "the great divide."


"It's not something to castigate the man over," said Geiger, "or to immediately declare that he is a dishonest person."


On the surface, that is an endorsement of Tressel, and should make happy those who remain on the supporter side of the divide. It also illustrates the reason for the divide. Tressel did break rules, but most likely did it (according to Geiger) with good intentions. His statement also leaves you wondering if Tressel might still be at Ohio State if Geiger were still around. Geiger's next comments put that thought to rest.


"What happened in my view from 40,000 feet away, as you know, I'm not there, I'm 3,000 miles away, but what happened was it became in the world of college football, in the instant news cycle and non-stop kind of look at these kind of things, it became paralyzing.


"It became a situation from which they couldn't extricate themselves and Jim became the absolute focus. I don't think The University could effectively move on with him in the chair as football coach."


The pragmatic side of Geiger agrees with the decision to ask Tressel to resign, but there is another side of him that is obviously saddened by that reality.

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"I told USA Today yesterday, I haven't looked at the paper, I don't care that much in terms of that stuff (what the paper may have said), but I said if I had a young son who was getting ready, and was talented to be a program like that, there isn't anybody in the country I'd rather have him play for and be associated with than Jim Tressel. This doesn't change my mind on that."


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