Easy, just "Lower the Bar." .... any other school but OSU, this would not happen. Another Travesty.. I wonder what happened to the old "file" from Youngstown State. It is that "Methodist Minister" image that won the NCAA over, and some pressure from OSU.
DALLAS (AP) — Jim Tressel will become a College Football Hall of Famer while he is still being punished by the NCAA.
Tressel won't be the first inductee to the college hall with a black mark on his resume, but the National Football Foundation went outside of its comfort zone when it selected the former Ohio State coach as part of its latest class.
Nominated for the Hall of Fame by Youngstown State, where he won four Division I-AA national titles from 1986-2000, Tressel has two years remaining on the punishment he received from the NCAA for withholding information about an investigation of his players while at Ohio State.
Also among the class announced Friday by the NFF was Brian Bosworth, the outspoken Oklahoma linebacker who was suspended for his last college game for failing a test for performance-enhancing drugs.
NFF chief executive operator Steve Hatchell said Tressel's missteps were carefully considered by the panel that reviews nominees.
"It was not hidden," Hatchell said. "Frankly, the people that are involved know all about the NCAA issues. So it was openly discussed. The feeling was what he had done coaching-wise at Youngstown State was strong enough."
Tressel will enter the hall as part of its Divisional Class, meant to honor players and coaches outside college football's top level, now known as FBS but once called I-A.
