Jim Harbaugh went to The Brown Jug to meet some recruits and bought them hamburgers with his own money and was punished. The penalty is a glorified slap on the wrist. It’s the perfect resolution to this annoying matter, writes AriWasserman.
fans who are bitter about what happened at the end of the Jim Tressel era. Yes, Tressel’s tenure at Ohio State came to an end not because his players sold their own memorabilia for money, but because he wasn’t forthright with the NCAA when questioned about it.
We may have been brainwashed enough by the NCAA and didn’t realize how out of touch we all were at that point. I was a reporter fresh out of college at the time, and covering Tattoo-Gate gave me enough anxiety that it felt as though I was covering a murder trial. An Ohio State legend lost his job over that stuff, and now — with a decade of context — it seems ridiculous.
And if we now realize how absurd the Tressel situation was, then it’s good Harbaugh’s penalty for similar actions is met with an eye roll.College football has gone through significant growth in the past 15 years. Of course, we’re in the age of the transfer portal and NIL — which makes athletes being compensated no longer feel like a first-degree felony — but we’ve also seen some pretty significant scandals during that time period, scandals that are worth our attention.
It’s about time this sport gets to a place where we don’t have to give a crap about whether a coach bought a 17-year-old kid a freakin’ hamburger. And, hopefully, we’re one step closer to getting to a place where the coach doesn’t feel the need to lie about it, either.Subscribe to The Athletic for in-depth coverage of your favorite players, teams, leagues and clubs. Try a week on us.is a senior writer for The Athletic covering college football and recruiting nationally. He previously spent 10 years covering Ohio State for The Athletic and Cleveland.com, starting on the Buckeyes beat in 2009.
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