COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith
has returned to campus and a news conference has been called for Tuesday
night, a sign that coach Jim Tressel’s job might be in jeopardy after a
report that he did not tell his superiors that he was aware of
potential NCAA violations involving star quarterback Terrelle Pryor and
others.
Smith is the chairman of the NCAA’s Division I men’s
basketball committee which selects, seeds and brackets the teams for the
NCAA tournament. He came back from meetings in New York to address the
brewing controversy involving Tressel, who is 106-22 in his 10 years as
coach of the Buckeyes.
Yahoo! Sports reported Monday that Tressel
knew of allegations of improper benefits to Pryor and five other players
as early as April 2010 — at least seven months before the university
found out.
Smith was scheduled to meet with television network
officials on Tuesday morning, then fly to Indiana for a dinner with the
other members of his committee. The 10-person committee will then be
sequestered from Wednesday through Sunday afternoon before announcing
the tournament brackets.
Ohio State has issued no other information since the story first was posted by Yahoo! Sports.
The
news conference, set for 7 p.m. on Tuesday night at the Jack Nicklaus
Museum on the Ohio State campus, includes Tressel, Smith and Ohio State
President E. Gordon Gee.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith
has returned to campus and a news conference has been called for Tuesday
night, a sign that coach Jim Tressel’s job might be in jeopardy after a
report that he did not tell his superiors that he was aware of
potential NCAA violations involving star quarterback Terrelle Pryor and
others.
Smith is the chairman of the NCAA’s Division I men’s
basketball committee which selects, seeds and brackets the teams for the
NCAA tournament. He came back from meetings in New York to address the
brewing controversy involving Tressel, who is 106-22 in his 10 years as
coach of the Buckeyes.
Yahoo! Sports reported Monday that Tressel
knew of allegations of improper benefits to Pryor and five other players
as early as April 2010 — at least seven months before the university
found out.
Smith was scheduled to meet with television network
officials on Tuesday morning, then fly to Indiana for a dinner with the
other members of his committee. The 10-person committee will then be
sequestered from Wednesday through Sunday afternoon before announcing
the tournament brackets.
Ohio State has issued no other information since the story first was posted by Yahoo! Sports.
The
news conference, set for 7 p.m. on Tuesday night at the Jack Nicklaus
Museum on the Ohio State campus, includes Tressel, Smith and Ohio State
President E. Gordon Gee.
