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dating back eight years. he says he s leaving ohio state for the good of the university. his troubles began when the ncaa began investigating several of his bic ki players for selling memorabilia to a local tattoo parlor owner, against ncaa rules. tressel admits he knew about the violations and failed to report them. his departure leaving students disappointed and former players stunned. dream job. what he would have done until retirement and to kind of see him go out like this, it s sad. what he pushed for so long was tradition and respect and doing the right thing and having integrity, he obviously was not about that. in the short term it s going to hurt recruiting. who s going to want to come to ohio state now? ohio state releasing this statement, quote, during the course of an investigation the university and the ncaa worked jointly to review any new allegations that come to light
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illustrated cover story. joining me, andy staples of sports illustrated. andy, as i understand it, three months ago tressel was suspended when he admitted he didn t report some of his players had gotten favors they weren t supposed to be getting, perhaps price reductions on tattoos and some money from a local tattoo parlor owner. i told you, i m not great at sports, but i m pretty good at politics. this seems to me to be more than about tattoos. what s it about? well, it is more than about tattoos. first of all, it s about the violation tressel committed. he lied to the ncaa basically which is the governing body of college sports when they came and said, hey, we got this letter from the tdepartment of this tattoo guy rated some of the stuff. we wanted to find out if it had been stolen. the guys had been trading it for cash and tattoos.
and they requested his resignation. he loves ohio state football. i know you used to live here. you understand what goes on in this town. he lives and breathes it. so get him to step up and resign was a big moment. he s trying to do what he thinks is right. actually, you know what i thought, i thought of woody hayes. even when he punched that player as the player ran down the sidelines he didn t get fired. he didn t leave his job until much later. this just seemed to come out of nowhere. tell us about these ncaa violations that supposedly many of his players were guilty of. well, in a nutshell what was found was the u. s. attorneys office informed ohio state several of its players had been involved with a tattoo parlor owner in regards to selling or tradinging memorabilia for cash or free or discounted tattoos. and there were other things involved there too. but pretty much there was nothing illegal going on from the standpoint of these guys