still has a world of trouble on their hands. Lucky for Tressel, he will not be around to have to help clean up some of the huge mess he helped make. So what happens to Ohio State now? Well, for one, Terrelle Pryor will have some answering to do. He will have to answer to Ohio State's own compliance office, as well as the NCAA. He has already been interviewed at least once in the past month, but that will not be the end of it.
It has already been established that Pryor was one of several players that had sold or traded Ohio State
memorabilia for cash and tattoos. Now the NCAA is looking into the purported half dozen different vehicles he has been seen driving. What else will they uncover? Who knows at this point. Jim Tressel will still have to answer for covering up flagrant violations. His punishment could be a three year suspension from coaching, but we will have to wait until the rest of the story unfolds to see how he is dealt with. All things considered, he is likely to get off easy compared to the Ohio State
program. A worse punishment would be to be forced to stay on as a coach, and have to face the fans and players that he disappointed with his actions. So what happens to Ohio State
now? Possibly a post-season ban of several years, they will have to forfeit every win in which an ineligible player took the field, probable loss of scholarships, and who knows what else. The rest of the investigation will determine how severely Ohio State is punished, but based on what we already know, it is already a nasty situation. The sad part of all of this is that the innocents will also be punished. The players that did nothing wrong, and the fans that are forced to sit back and watch this debacle unfold. While the punishments are still up in the air, one thing in certain. The Ohio State football program will never be the same.
Source: www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2011/05/30/zzz.html
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