According to official Ohio State documents obtained by the Associated Press Friday afternoon, former Ohio State head coach Jim Tressel failed to do an adequate job of self-reporting NCAA violations six years before the ongoing tattoo and memorabilia scandal.
The Buckeyes’ athletic director at the time, Andy Geiger, rated Tressel “unacceptable” in terms of self-reporting rules violations in a timely matter in his evaluation of the former coach for a 2005-2006 job performance report.
Tressel first ran afoul of the NCAA rules with Ohio State before he even coached a single game in Columbus.
On June 15, 2001, Geiger gave Tressel a letter of reprimand for giving a recruit an Ohio State jersey, which is a major violation.
This letter apparently did not get through to Tressel,…
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