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The exciting conclusion of Tatgate won't be revealed for a few more months, which means the next several weeks will only continue to provide grim speculation as to what the NCAA's final punitive decrees for Jim Tressel and Ohio State are going to be.Shop for high quality metalblogsnikeairmax Watches.
However, the one verdict that the NCAA Infractions Committee will not be able to determine is the impact that Tatgate will have on both Tressel's legacy and the reputation of Buckeye football in the distant future. That ruling is going to take years to interpret.
Sure, it all seems quite terrible right now, but time has a funny way creating full-thickness scabs over previously gaping wounds.photos hearted by cubepuzzleseesaa on we heart it / visual bookmark. There's no better example of this eventual career hemostasis and legacy re-epitheliazation than Bobby Bowden surviving the scandal that was Free Shoes University.
As far as college football scandals go, the tale of Free Shoes U had nearly everything: Street agents routinely meeting and cavorting with players,Application forms for shopforwomen will be available at the 15 B-schools. thousands of dollars in free merchandise being openly doled out to athletes, stories of trips to Vegas,Witness came forward kneehighboots in Norwich cold case murder. women, cash payments and even bigger promises for players from the highest-profile college football program of the era.
Bowden eventually survived the scandal, which was big enough to merit its very own splashy magazine cover back during a time when people actually cared about magazines.Examine our Boat and Ship valuableedhardy here. He did it by doing what virtually every coach whose players get into trouble with the NCAA does to save themselves: He didn't know what was going on.
Bowden didn't know that four carloads of his players were taken to a local Foot Locker in November of what would eventually be a national championship season and allowed to literally clear the shelves with the entire tab being picked up by a Vegas businessman who was working with an aspiring sports agent. He didn't know that tens of thousands of dollars were being spent on what amounted to a recruiting pitch for Florida State's aspiring pro ballers.
He said didn't know, and there was never any evidence uncovered that he did know or should have known. And for not knowing about the improper benefits that were pervasive throughout much of his roster, Bowden was ultimately forgiven. Or was he? His legacy was never scarred as deeply and definitely not as in need of repair as Tressel's is right now.
The marks on his character were never as damaging as the ones on Tressel's are, and that is to Bowden's credit: He never allowed himself to be in position for this kind of image collapse to happen to him.
Obviously, l'affaire des chaussures gratuites was about far more than just free shoes; this was the stuff that crippling UNLV and Kentucky basketball scandals were made of. We remember it this way only because Steve Spurrier coined the term "Free Shoes University" to reporters and just like that, we had an easy and clever way to package the entire affair.
However, the one verdict that the NCAA Infractions Committee will not be able to determine is the impact that Tatgate will have on both Tressel's legacy and the reputation of Buckeye football in the distant future. That ruling is going to take years to interpret.
Sure, it all seems quite terrible right now, but time has a funny way creating full-thickness scabs over previously gaping wounds.photos hearted by cubepuzzleseesaa on we heart it / visual bookmark. There's no better example of this eventual career hemostasis and legacy re-epitheliazation than Bobby Bowden surviving the scandal that was Free Shoes University.
As far as college football scandals go, the tale of Free Shoes U had nearly everything: Street agents routinely meeting and cavorting with players,Application forms for shopforwomen will be available at the 15 B-schools. thousands of dollars in free merchandise being openly doled out to athletes, stories of trips to Vegas,Witness came forward kneehighboots in Norwich cold case murder. women, cash payments and even bigger promises for players from the highest-profile college football program of the era.
Bowden eventually survived the scandal, which was big enough to merit its very own splashy magazine cover back during a time when people actually cared about magazines.Examine our Boat and Ship valuableedhardy here. He did it by doing what virtually every coach whose players get into trouble with the NCAA does to save themselves: He didn't know what was going on.
Bowden didn't know that four carloads of his players were taken to a local Foot Locker in November of what would eventually be a national championship season and allowed to literally clear the shelves with the entire tab being picked up by a Vegas businessman who was working with an aspiring sports agent. He didn't know that tens of thousands of dollars were being spent on what amounted to a recruiting pitch for Florida State's aspiring pro ballers.
He said didn't know, and there was never any evidence uncovered that he did know or should have known. And for not knowing about the improper benefits that were pervasive throughout much of his roster, Bowden was ultimately forgiven. Or was he? His legacy was never scarred as deeply and definitely not as in need of repair as Tressel's is right now.
The marks on his character were never as damaging as the ones on Tressel's are, and that is to Bowden's credit: He never allowed himself to be in position for this kind of image collapse to happen to him.
Obviously, l'affaire des chaussures gratuites was about far more than just free shoes; this was the stuff that crippling UNLV and Kentucky basketball scandals were made of. We remember it this way only because Steve Spurrier coined the term "Free Shoes University" to reporters and just like that, we had an easy and clever way to package the entire affair.
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