This is how disappointed Ohio State officials feel about Jim Tressel: They’re so mad at him, they’re giving him a $50,000 bonus as punishment.
That oughta show him.
Ohio State President E. Gordon Gee can never be taken seriously again. Not that he really could before on football matters, but this seals it. Gee insisted less than a month ago that the school would force Tressel to pay the $250,000 fine previously assessed to him, particularly since Athletic Director Gene Smith said the recent investigation into the football program cost the university much more than the quarter-million dollars the school fined its former coach.
Now the Columbus Dispatch reported Friday that not only has the school backed off its insistence he pay the fine, but it also...
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