Tressel's Honesty Problem

Ohio State knew Jim Tressel wasn't quite up front about violations when they occurred:

Former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel was told by the school that he did a poor job of self-reporting NCAA violations years before he failed to tell his bosses that players were selling championship rings and other Buckeyes memorabilia, a cover-up that cost him his job.
In an evaluation of Tressel’s job performance from 2005-06, then-athletic director Andy Geiger rated Tressel “unacceptable’’ in terms of self-reporting rules violations in a timely manner. The coach also was warned in a separate letter that he and his staff needed to do a better job of monitoring the cars the Buckeyes were driving — an issue that would arise again this spring....

The documents were part of a mountain of public records released Friday by Ohio State dealing with Tressel and the ongoing scandal that has sullied one of the nation’s elite football programs.
Tressel received a letter of reprimand from then-athletic director Andy Geiger for giving a recruit a Buckeyes jersey — a clear NCAA violation — before he had even coached his first game.

I'm glad we're finding out about this now.  We should keep in mind that we are talking about last year's highest paid Ohio public sector employee.  One of the next highest-paid employees, his supposed boss, E. Gordon Gee, joked about how hopefully Tressel wouldn't fire him, when he appeared at the news conference in which Tressel was supposed to apologize so they could sweep this scandal under the rug back in March.  Gee should be sent packing also.  This program, like all of college football and men's basketball, is dirty.  This multi billion dollar industry has outgrown its place at universities.  We might soon be back on an even field, as it looks like major violations will be discovered at every major program, and soon many schools will have big scholarship limitations placed on them.