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NCAA版 - With Jim Tressel out, Gene Smith and Gordon Gee should be next
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This isn’t over. This isn’t the one moment, the one stance, that lifts
the Ohio State football program -- the Ohio State University -- out of the
muck and mire.
There are two left, and they’re just around the corner: once athletic
director Gene Smith and president Gordon Gee are fired, the healing and the
rebuilding can begin.
Jim Tressel resigned as coach at Ohio State on Monday, and the first step
has been taken to end this 13-month ordeal of lies, denials and coverups
that threatens to bring down the most powerful program in America.
But it’s not nearly enough.
It’s not enough that the most successful coach in school history steps
aside amid multiple major NCAA violations. Not enough that Ohio State
suddenly realizes it’s staring down the barrel at a suddenly agitated NCAA,
whose president proclaimed earlier this month that cheaters must be dealt
with severely.
Not enough that the pomposity and arrogance at the top of the food chain in
Columbus, those who scoffed at serious allegations from the start, have an
epiphany and decide now to look holier than thou.
Because it’s all a sham. Don’t think so?
Two days ago, Columbus car dealer Aaron Kniffin told Sporting News that Ohio
State director of compliance Doug Archie not only spoke more than 50 times
to Kniffin over the last three years, but also Archie and the entire
compliance department knew of Kniffin selling cars to athletes and that
Archie sent players to Kniffin.
Ohio State University president Gordon Gee has backed coach Jim Tressel at
every turn during the scandal -- until Tressel's resignation on Monday. (AP
Photo)
Archie, of course, originally told the Columbus Dispatch on May 7 that he
had only spoken to Kniffin once, and never sent players to him -- a
significant NCAA violation if players are getting special deals. Kniffin
says he has phone records to prove it, and when I called Ohio State media
relations to get a comment from Archie, a school representative called back
and said The Dispatch got the story wrong -- that Archie did, in fact, speak
to Kniffin on numerous occasions.
This is the arrogant, I’m-better-than-you pervasive -- evasive -- and
systemic attitude in Columbus that filters down from the top. We’re Ohio
State and you’re not.
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• Gee proclaiming Boise State plays “the sisters of the poor” in
their conference and shouldn’t be allowed to play in a BCS bowl.
• Smith cutting off Tressel in the press conference announcing Tressel
’s initial two-game suspension, when Tressel was asked if he forwarded e-
mails implicating ineligible Ohio State players to other parties. Tressel,
of course, did -- and don’t think for a moment that Smith didn’t know.
It was only after more investigative reporting uncovered Tressel forwarding
the e-mails to star quarterback Terrelle Pryor’s mentor (and not his bosses
at Ohio State), did we see the entire scope of this mess. Tressel isn’t
alone in his transgressions; he’s simply the guy who tried to cover up the
selfish, I-can-do-what-I-want actions of players selling memorabilia.
Wonder where those players picked up that learned behavior?
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When Ohio State announced the resignation, Gee released a stuffed-shirt
statement about moving on and looking forward to representing the university
in football and life, and that he had been “actively reviewing the matter
” before accepting Tressel falling on the sword for everyone else in the
athletic department.
This is the same guy who when announcing Tressel’s initial two-game
suspension, said “I just hope (Tressel) doesn’t dismiss me.”
Now that’s the way you run a university. That’s the way you show the NCAA,
beyond the shadow of a doubt, that there is clear, decisive leadership at
the top and that no one person is bigger than the university.
What we have here is a disturbing, debilitating systemic problem. This isn’
t just bad kids making bad decisions; that happens at every university in
America.
It’s how you deal with those bad decisions; how you show who you are when
no one is looking. When you’re sitting at your desk during a mundane
offseason and receive an e-mail explaining key players have sold
irreplaceable mementos and memorabilia for cash and tattoos.
Instead of simply forwarding the e-mail to his superiors, instead of forging
ahead in the 2010 season without the star players and doing what’s right,
Tressel’s spotless career is now some Shakespearean tragedy.
Instead of firing Tressel from the beginning for lying multiple times about
the NCAA violations, instead of trotting out a dog-and-pony show and
proclaiming their undying support for the coach who had just committed
egregious violations, Smith and Gee stood at the initial press conference as
the dog wagged by the tail in this comedy of errors.
The president, the athletic director, the head coach, the compliance
department. Who at Ohio State is not part of this sordid nightmare?
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Monday May 30
By firing Tressel now (because that’s what it was; a firing, not a
resignation), Ohio State thinks it can stroll into Indianapolis in the
second week of August for its meeting with the NCAA infractions committee,
looking clean and tidy with no blemishes. More arrogance, more bravado --
more of the sham.
There are two ways this can go. Ohio State can believe firing Tressel will
appease the NCAA infractions committee and take their chances with the
looming sanctions. Or the board of trustees at the university can realize
two thirds of the problem are still employed, fire Gee and Smith and show
the NCAA that they truly are committed to starting anew.
USC got lucky when Pete Carroll left for the NFL, athletic director Mike
Garrett resigned and president Steve Sample retired, relieving the
university from the awful decision of firing an immensely popular coach, a
former Heisman Trophy winning athletic director and the most popular
president in school history -- and the Trojans still were slapped with
significant sanctions. That case was about an assistant coach whom the NCAA
says knew or should’ve known about an ineligible player.
This case is about a head coach who admitted he knew about ineligible
players, covered it up and lied multiple times to protect the players. And
about an administration that has fostered an environment of deceit and
denial, a philosophy that somehow took down the most popular coach and has
the program on the verge of imploding from within.
It’s ironic that Ohio State announced the resignation of Tressel on
Memorial Day, a day so important to Tressel. He reveres the men and women of
the armed forces for their loyalty, honor and duty.
Tressel’s loyalty to his players not only cost him his job, but also his
honor. Now it’s Ohio State’s duty to clean house and fire everyone
involved.
The final step in a Shakespearean tragedy is the reestablishment of moral
order.
Not doing the same thing over and over and hoping you get it right.
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