sherm03;708794 wrote:I realize that there are "bigger fish to fry" so to speak. But what is going to tip those guys off more? Tressel coming forward saying that his players sold memorabilia to the guy? Or the fact that his house was raided by federal agents?

Like I said, I can see if he got the information before the raid they would want him to keep quiet so they didn't tip of Rife and have him move all the stuff out. But after the raid, they have their evidence and Rife (and anyone that he is associated with) know that the feds are on to them. So Tressel coming forward wouldn't mess anything up at that point.

ytownfootball;708796 wrote:Bottom line is, if there wasn't more to it he would have been fired imo.

ytownfootball;708800 wrote:At that point, they (the players) were already out of the picture. They didn't have anything to do with the drugs at all, hell, the feds knew before they raided the house about the memorabilia, Cicero's email said as much, they just wanted them out of the way.."tattoo parlor off limits"

centralbucksfan;708802 wrote:This. And why do we know or speculate this?
1. Gee and Smith total support
2. Only 2 game suspension with 250K fine.
If Tress was hiding this since April for no reason but to hide so players could play season...he would have been shit canned in a heart beat.

thedynasty1998;708803 wrote:The feds knew about the memorabilia prior to the raid? You do realize Cicero emailed Tressel AFTER the raid right?

How can you continue to criticize people for not sticking to facts yet do it yourself? You keep ignoring this question.

ytownfootball;708806 wrote:Unless I'm mistaken, Cicero said they knew about the stuff already in the email...I'm too lazy to look it up, if I'm wrong you can prove it, and I'll say so.

thedynasty1998;708805 wrote: I agree that there is something more to it, but for people to say stick to the facts yet throw out these conspiracy theories is funny.

thedynasty1998;708807 wrote:You are mistaken.

ytownfootball;708811 wrote:http://www.610wtvn.com/pages/template/tressels_emails_march2011.pdf

once again...sorry chief

page one....p.s.s.s.

thedynasty1998;708871 wrote:The attorney said the blacked out names were those of Pryor and Posey.

ytownfootball;708903 wrote:What does that have to do with the fact that I said Cicero told JT that the feds knew about the memorabilia prior to raiding the house?

You said I was mistaken, when in fact, you were wrong again.


derp

sherm03;708913 wrote:The federal agents may have known prior to, but in the first email...dated April 2nd...Cicero writes:
"When the Federal Government raided his house yesterday, they seized 70,000 in cash and a lot of Ohio State memorabilia; including championship rings."

He goes on to say that he is being told that Pryor and Posey were selling their stuff to Rife.

So the federal agents knew about the stuff prior to, as pointed out in the p.s.s.s. that you mentioned earlier. But the email came through the day after the raid took place. So Tressel found out after the raid had already taken place.

ytownfootball;708919 wrote:Yeah, I know that, but what we don't know is when the feds notified OSU when they knew about the stuff, I won't assume anything, but it could very well have been prior to Cicero's email which would have pre-dated the raid. I realize how much of an apologist I'm appearing, it doesn't matter, but were that the case, then a lot of this is for naught, and damn, I hope so.

thedynasty1998;709098 wrote:Why can you continue to speculate, but you want others to stick to the "facts". Everything that has been said would make one think that the Feds raided Rifes house, found OSU memorabilia, Tressel was contacted by Cicero, then OSU was informed of investigation; in that order.

ytownfootball;709154 wrote:Because I acknowledge the possibility that what others say may be a possibility, you don't. It's your stated opinion as fact that gets you zero credibility...of course nothing new.

You don't even acknowledge you were COMPLETELY wrong about the feds knowing about the memorabilia prior to the house invasion...saying I was "mistaken"...sorry chief...you're an idiot as proven ad nauseum.

password;709207 wrote:It really makes no difference when the Feds knew about the memorabilia because it is not a federal crime to own sports memorabilia.It sounds like the lawyer was just trying to help Tressel out by telling him who was selling the stuff to Rife and hoped that Tressel would tell the players to stay away from him.Has anyone ever thought that Tressel talked to the 2 players and told them to stop their association with Rife and told them to keep quite about all of this and he would hide it from the school because it would cause the NCAA to suspend them and he did not want to ruin his season.

"COVER UP IN PROGRESS"

thedynasty1998;709216 wrote:I could see that happening.

And I know that it doesn't matter when the Feds knew about the memorabilia, but ytown wants to act like he's the only one that is allowed to be a voice on this issue, and he's just dead wrong on the Fed part.

password;709217 wrote:Another theory for all the OSU cult members, maybe Tressel is not only God but he was secretly sworn in as a Federal Agent and was obligated to stay quite about the investigation because of the contract he signed with the Feds.

thedynasty1998;709216 wrote:I could see that happening.

And I know that it doesn't matter when the Feds knew about the memorabilia, but ytown wants to act like he's the only one that is allowed to be a voice on this issue, and he's just dead wrong on the Fed part.

ytownfootball;709255 wrote:Jesus...were you ever taught to breath with your mouth shut?

"Quite" frankly, I see a lot of idiot posts from you.