From: AP via SFGate.com -

Jim Tressel was just working the system. For much of the past decade, he knew his job was safe even while his program flouted the rules over and over.

The formula is well-known to everyone in the coaching profession: Win enough games, pad the coffers, capture a championship every now and then, and the job is yours unless you do something REALLY bad.

Tressel finally did something REALLY bad — covering up NCAA violations at Ohio State for close to a year — but you still have to wonder why it took so long for this day to arrive.

What we need is a death penalty for coaches. After two strikes, he’s done. For good.

Tressel would have been gone long ago.

Even before he got to Ohio State, Tressel ran afoul of the rules with his recruitment of the star quarterback at little Youngstown State….

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