From: AP via TimesUnion.com -

Ohio State University trustees will spend up to six weeks reviewing the athletic program after the scandal that led to the suspension of five players and the forced resignation of football coach Jim Tressel.

“We want to assure ourselves that there are no new issues in any existing athletics matters that have not been dealt with,” Robert Schottenstein said Thursday during the trustees’ audit committee meeting. “And I will say today that we believe that is the case.”

In the first public comments from a member of the board of decision-makers that oversees the university, Schottenstein added that the school reported every alleged football team violation it was aware of to the NCAA.

“The process and decision-making to date by the university has in our judgment been fundamentally sound,” said Schottenstein, chairman of the audit committee. “For the most part, we believe our compliance protocols in athletics are good.”

Schottenstein, who did not directly address Tressel’s resignation, promised….

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