On Christmas Day, two sources that are very close to recruiting at prominent universities confirmed that Jim Tressel will no longer be the head football coach at Ohio State University after the Sugar Bowl against Arkansas.
So says some guy named "Tab" at a sports website in Chicago.
this would be more funny if i didnt have relatives coming over who will ask me a thousand questions about it
This would also be funny if we all hadn't recently laughed at Biddle for posting a completely rediculous post about OSU players getting suspended. I hate the internet save for 11W and choice adult offerings.
Well, I didn't laugh at Biddle. Some other sites did, but a) BN has some sources and b) Biddle isn't the type to drop stuff like this out there all willy-nilly. This Chicago Now stuff, on the other hand...
Two things about the article -
1) The two sources supposdely are from *other* schools who claim Ohio State told recruits they "were free to look elsewhere." Even when Ohio State doesn't have its coaches mysteriously retiring, they're "free to look elsewhere." It's always been this way; it's part of Tressel's chill approach which [editorial comment] sometimes backfires.
2) Spielman as his replacement just dumbifies an already dumb story.
3) BONUS THIRD THING BECAUSE IT'S CHRISTMAS clever to float this on Christmas when absolutely nobody will be available to confirm or debunk with any OSU official or verbal commitment.
Not sure why I'm even bothering to waste my time on this, but check this:
In other news, Shelly Poe has dispensed with mailing press releases to 11W, The Plain Dealer, The Dispatch and other orgs covering the Buckeyes and is now sending them exclusively to rinky-dink operations.
Garbage.
Final update to this sad story (unless the original author publishes a retraction): Gene Smith says rumors are not true.
Good god - we live in a world where bloggers are now considered to be journalists, and this kind of crap can be taken seriously for a while... And why is it that so many people cannot spell the word 'ridiculous'?
I don't know but it's ridikyooliss.
Screw you guys, I believe everything I read on the Internet. We're doooooomed.
I think it's a plot by some Illini or N'western fan to kill OSU recruiting. Won't work.
"Here officer, hold my beer while I find my license."
...ironic
"A guy from Ohio can make it in life if he works hard enough." - Wayne Woodrow Hayes
I thought that Saban buying a house in State College was the most outrageous rumor all year long
If Denard Robinson isn't careful with spooning all that food into his mouth, he's going to end up lookin' like Whoopi Goldberg
I remember Saban to Texas for 10 years 100million dollars, too.
I wonder if "Tab" was a lucky troll, an insider or someone who deciphered the secrets of the TimeCube.