Yahoo, Tattoos, and tOSU (1-year bowl ban, 82 scholly limit for 3 years)

[MililaniBuckeye]

I'd like to believe that, but this was said during the Q&A after the press conference: Ozone.video (it's a little past the halfway point)

Q - "Were you asked by a federal authority to keep this in confidence?"

JT - "I was asked by the person that sent it, who was an attorney, yeah."

Q - "Not from a federal authority?"

JT - "Correct. I had no interaction with federal authorities."

If the FBI asked him not to say anything, then that would be the appropriate response...

 

[BB73]

In looking at that email the school sent to the NCAA - seems that they're setting themselves up with that wording to have the door be able to swing both ways if they need to, should the NCAA come down harshly on them.

If you're referring to tOSU's self-report to the NCAA, I don't believe it was an e-mail, so that may be confusing to some.

I believe the wording of that was framed to show that tOSU had the correct procedures in place, and reacted immediately and appropriately when they learned of the situation. And that the only violation (separate from the self-report of the players back in December) was committed by Jim Tressel, so he should be the focus of the punishment, rather than the University.

Gee and Smith backed up JT very strongly in the press conference, so I think any intentional wording to 'swing both ways' exists only in your imagination.

Not that there's anything wrong with swinging both ways.

 

[alexhortdog95]

[tin-foil hat]Of course that's what he said! Didn't you see the black helicopters flying above campus?[/tin-foil hat]

Like Ray Liotta in GoodFellas - he kept seeing that helicopter alllll day. Wasn't till he had to go get the drop girl's 'lucky hat' that they moved on him.

"For a second I thought I was dead. But, when I heard all the noise, I knew they were cops. Only cops talk that way. If they'd been wiseguys, I wouldn't have heard a thing. I would've been dead."

LOL

 

[LitlBuck]

Maybe someone in corporate IT (I know we have some around here, or at least some that know a lot more than I do) can answer this related question. Would there be a system in place that could be used to scan email archives for key words if you are doing typical _______ housekeeping (fill in the blank with "compliance" in the case of tOSU)? That can be the only way I can think of that they would have found that individual email.

I would think that as an e-mail came in it probably would be scanned by some server on a incoming gateway. That way certain e-mails could be blocked if they had a virus or were junk e-mail.

Speaking of e-mail, I have a question regarding all of the e-mails that JT receives which would probably number over a couple hundred per day and I have a hard time believing that he reads, or is at least the first reader of all of his e-mails, which would lead me to believe that his e-mails are read before he gets them and the ones that pertain to University business would be passed on to him and other e-mails regarding speaking, sending a letter, etc. would be handled by his administrative assistant/secretaial staff. If the latter is true, that would mean that someone would have read the attorney's e-mail before it was passed on to him.

 

[CleveBucks]

Maybe someone in corporate IT (I know we have some around here, or at least some that know a lot more than I do) can answer this related question. Would there be a system in place that could be used to scan email archives for key words if you are doing typical _______ housekeeping (fill in the blank with "compliance" in the case of tOSU)? That can be the only way I can think of that they would have found that individual email.

Given the amount of public records requests and compliance issues they deal with, they would almost assuredly have an email archiving/retention system in place that stores all incoming and outgoing email. The question is, what "unrelated legal case" were they researching that led them to the April emails?

 

[alexhortdog95]

Yes, I'm 99% sure that the AD has an email archiving and retention system in place. They deal with a lot of public records requests. The question is, what "unrelated legal case" were they researching that led them to the April emails?

I'm in IT and I can tell you that just by looking at the format of the emails, they're on a Microsoft Exchange Server. Those emails are obviously the property of the school, and you can monitor email usage at all times.

Microsoft Outlook (the application that runs on your desktop) can be setup to archive your personal emails on your hard drive in a compressed file. It's setup that way so if you ever need to work offline (i.e., you take a laptop but you need access to the emails to work), you can.

The other thing too (and keep this in mind, folks) - The emails you 'delete' - if you're on an Exchange server, they're not TRULY deleted. You can recover those deleted items for a time until the server administrator purges all the old emails out there.

As soon as he received the emails - even if he hadn't looked at them, they were going to ask him about them.

 

[Gothmog8]

Bill Cunningham on 700wlw radio stated on air he has heard from school sources that Tressel was asked by the FBI not to say anything. If this pans out, a whole [Mark May]load of Tressel-bashers had [censored]ing better get used to the taste of crow...

but Tressel and the FBI apparently never spoke. Someone at OSU is either feeding him a line or is confused (or trying to confuse)

or... "you didn't see nothin, or hear nothin,...we were never here." :)

 

[BuckShot63]

I think he may spoken to somebody through somebody.

 

[SEREbuckeye]

but Tressel and the FBI apparently never spoke. Someone at OSU is either feeding him a line or is confused (or trying to confuse)

or... "you didn't see nothin, or hear nothin,...we were never here." :)

Had Tressel actually spoken to the FBI or to a legal source - we wouldn't be even discussing this right now.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

I think he may spoken to somebody through somebody.

Great agree, I post.

Welcome to BP. :p

 

[BUCKYLE]

I think he may spoken to somebody through somebody.

Are you trying to pin this shit on GavinRyLee?

 

[scarletmike]

Had Tressel actually spoken to the FBI or to a legal source - we wouldn't be even discussing this right now.

You've obviously never seen the black helicopters...

Actually, upon looking at your avatar and name, you likely pilot said helicopters. That would explain it.





Ok ok, I'll take off my tin-foil hat now.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Are you trying to pin this [Mark May] on GavinRyLee?

Forget it, Buckyle. You're out of your element.

 

[Gatorubet]

I think he may spoken to somebody through somebody.

 

[BB73]

If the FBI asked him not to say anything, then that would be the appropriate response...

Earlier in that presser, at the start of the Q&A:

Rusty Miller (AP) -"When we met in December, you said (when you were asked whether your players have any idea or were aware of the fact that ... what they had done was wrong): 'I suppose that would be something rattling around inside the head of each of them. We all have a sensor in this ... I'm not sure if I should be doing this.' At what point was it where you realized that you had done this wrong?"

JT - "I suppose in January as we sat down and we talked about it. It certainly wasn't at the point you were talking about. I had made a commitment to the confidentiality of a federal situation. And, as we sat down and got a little bit of guidance as to how we could have done it better. I think that was probably the point in time."

That was just before he's asked if he forwarded any e-mails at the 24-minute mark of the full press conference, so some may want to look at that part of the video again.