Former Ohio State coach Jim Tressel sat down with the Cleveland Plain Dealer over Memorial Day weekend, and if there was any worry as to whether Tressel was still himself, fret no longer. The Senator is still The Senator, and while he wasn’t defiant in any way, contrition wasn’t exactly the order of the day, either.
Here’s how Tressel characterized the scandal that saw him resign under duress before taking a show-cause penalty from the NCAA:
“It was going to end one day, in one way or another, and that wasn’t the way we wanted to end it,” Tressel said.
“Wow, a lot happens in a year, a lot that you don’t know is going to happen. But I don’t feel scarred or disappointed or mad. I just don’t feel that way. The people at Ohio State have always been great to me, and things end up the way they do, and you go on to the next play or the next day, and that’s always been the way I look at things.”
The Plain Dealer editors took it a step further and said Tressel had no regrets, but those are…
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