Shorter Jim Tressel: kids, I’ll let us all scarf down dessert now, if you promise to eat those nasty brussels sprouts afterward.
Shorter Jim Tressel: kids, I’ll let us all scarf down dessert now, if you promise to eat those nasty brussels sprouts afterward.
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
Oh, we’ll come back next fall coach. You can trust us!
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Because all promises are kept…
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It’s a promise ring coach.
It means we’re engaged to be engaged.
I bought it on Ebay.
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Throw ’em a bone and they’ll poop on your carpet.
Russ
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Then do this.
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W0rry about UCF, Russ, you got a helluva lota work to do this afternoon.
Great opportunity for a backup to shine.
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Here is what I can’t figure out. How isn’t this an inducement? I’ll let you play if you promise to stay one more year? I mean, if any of these kids promised an agent or attorney that they would hire him after the season was over, they would be ineligible. But if they promise they will comeback to school next year if the coach let’s them play, we are all good with this?
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He’ll give them a stern talking to about Mid Western values if they don’t stay.
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This is just a way to take the media spotlight off this bad OSU PR. He knows that they are going to do what they want to do anyway so why not do this cheap trick to shut up the fans and media. He’ll look good either way and the players will,as usual, take the PR hit.
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I wonder if Herbstreet will get out there and talk about what quality guys these are. Can’t you hear it “I think this is a great move by Pryor. If he can just get 7 more games under his belt, he’ll be a first round pick!”
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I am SUCH a Razorback fan come Tuesday. Go Hogs!
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Are “pinkie swears” binding now? If not, these guys are outta there.
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Pinkie promises.
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I have always thought Tressel was too good a man to take part in this farce. Has the money and the pressure to win become so great that even someone as secure as Tressel will sell out? The coming year will be a major test for CMR. I hope he would walk away before selling out his values.
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The pledge was about punishment. If the JRs are leaving, then they arfe missing the Sugar Bowl for their part in the whole NCAA issue. If they pledge that they stay…then they get to play the game, and have to deal with the 5 game punishment. Tressel didn’t want them to not be punishment for their transgressions. Of course, the kids could lie and not come back, then they wouldn’t be welcomed back to Ohio State.
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This is just a cheap trick by Tressel to justify playing the players in question in the bowl. Apparently he was getting a lot of heat from alumni to sit them in the bowl game and this gives him a easy out. When some of them leave he can say he was lied to.
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