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Draft day/time changed to Wed Aug 31 10:30pm CDT

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ice cube nation, btw i once bumped into ice cube wearing a bolts jersey :sergio:
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I don't even consider him a sell out. He just stopped being everything he was but retained his name. He still put out some of the dopest albums when I was a wee lad
 
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What a fucking joke

Colts hire Jim Tressel as consultant

The disgraced former Ohio State coach was hired Friday by the Indianapolis Colts as a game-day consultant to help determine when the team should challenge plays. Coach Jim Caldwell said it was a position he's wanted to fill for the past couple of years.


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"He's a guy I have known for quite some time and have a good relationship with," Caldwell said during a conference call. "We have hired him as a game-day consultant. He was around last night and will be working with us next week."

Caldwell did not provide details on the friendship, but it's likely the two crossed paths on the recruiting trail in the 1980s and early 1990s when both were coaching quarterbacks at big-time schools.

Tressel was an assistant at Syracuse in 1981 and 1982 before taking a similar post at Ohio State from 1983-85, then leaving to take the Youngstown State job in 1986. Caldwell coached quarterbacks at Penn State from 1987-92. He coached at Northwestern, Colorado and Louisville, too, before joining Joe Paterno's staff.

The Colts are also familiar with Tressel because of their pre-draft scouting work. Indy vice chairman Bill Polian normally consults with a player's college coach before drafting a player, and Indianapolis has had a handful of ex-Buckeyes come through the team's complex over the past 10 years. The list includes safety Mike Doss, receivers Anthony Gonzalez and Roy Hall, tight end Ben Hartsock and defensive tackle Quinn Pitcock. Gonzalez is the only draft pick among that group still with the team.

Tressel had been actively seeking employment after resigning from Ohio State on May 30 amid a damaging NCAA scandal. He had been seen at practices in Cleveland and Indianapolis recently and attended the Colts' preseason finale Thursday in Cincinnati.

But his job with the Colts, Caldwell said, will be limited exclusively to working game days from the coaches' booth. Tressel did not respond immediately to a text message sent by The Associated Press.

"Like I said, he'll work different aspects for me, more in particular as a replay consultant so the guys up in the box can concentrate strictly on their position," Caldwell said. "That's where we'll utilize him."


Tressel was 94-22 in 10 seasons with the Buckeyes and won the national title in 2002 -- Ohio State's first championship in 34 years.

But Tressel also was in charge during an embarrassing scandal that rocked one of America's proudest programs.

Five of Ohio State's top players, including quarterback Terrelle Pryor, were suspended in December for the first five games of the 2011 season for accepting cash and tattoos from the owner of a local tattoo parlor. Dozens of autographed items including jerseys and gloves, along with Big Ten championship rings and even Pryor's Fiesta Bowl sportsmanship award, were discovered at the parlor during a raid by the U.S. Attorney's office.

Pryor recently was taken by Oakland in the NFL's supplemental draft and will face a five-game suspension in the NFL, too.

In the spring, Tressel admitted he had a part in the scandal because he failed to notify compliance department officials of possible transgressions when he first learned about them. That is a violation of NCAA rules.

Ohio State officials, who made their final monthly payment of $54,000 to Tressel in June, had little to say about the Colts' newest hire.

"I wish Jim the best of luck in his new endeavor," Buckeyes athletic director Gene Smith said in an e-mail to The Associated Press.

Indy's move comes just days before the Sept. 11 opener at Houston and is the latest twist in an unusually noisy start for the typically low-key Colts.

Four-time league MVP Peyton Manning didn't practice until earlier this week after having offseason neck surgery, and there are still questions whether he'll play in the opener.

Indy also broke with its tradition of looking internally for help. Instead, the Colts signed five unrestricted free agents, all former first-round picks: defensive linemen Jamaal Anderson, Tyler Braxton and Tommie Harris, linebacker Ernie Sims and quarterback Kerry Collins.

And now it has added Tressel.


Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press

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Bjerknes

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swag said:
:lol: Spoken like people who need Players Union representation for their permanent keyboard finger damage from their "playing days".
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That's funny, coming from someone who hates those who like college football after graduating.

Again, you never played this sport, why like it.

Go play Vegas, Greg. You'll make more sense that way.


Here's some 40+ year-old dude hating on us for liking college football yet castigating us for not participating in a fucking fantasy league. What a fucking joke! :howler:

GROW THE FUCK UP.
 
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L'autista
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Bjerknes said:
That's funny, coming from someone who hates those who like college football after graduating.

Again, you never played this sport, why like it.

Go play Vegas, Greg. You'll make more sense that way.


Here's some 40+ year-old dude hating on us for liking college football yet castigating us for not participating in a fucking fantasy league. What a fucking joke! :howler:

GROW THE FUCK UP.
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I like porn but I've never been in a film. Maybe I should. Whatever it will be, it sure won't be some amateur porn b.s. with botched boob-job surgeries and girls who look like guys. :pado:

Now excuse me while I cheer for my pee-wee hockey club.
 
Bjerknes

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This sort of rhetoric sounds like someone who went through a loser football program during the 80's. Am I correct?

Because CAL sucked back then. Therefore, I can see why you wouldn't care.

There is zero reason why you should like the Portuguese NT, despite your "wife", yet you do anyway. Personally, I think that's clownish, much more so than someone like me, or Mikey, or Sergio liking a college football team. But hey, we all have our retarded habits.
 
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Yes, I am a massive CAL fan. You got me, Andy. :seven:

But my pee wee hockey club was just so badass. I can't get enough. I still wear a size 3 jersey to all the games!
 
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When I went to Cal in grad school, it was actually a joint program between UC Berkeley and UCSF. At the time UCSF was running TV commercials in the local market to celebrate their anniversary. It featured dental professors in hockey goal getting clobbered by opponents, biochemists getting run over on football fields, etc., with the motto, "UCSF: 125 years and still no sports teams."

I probably connected more with Varnus & Bishop, UCSF profs who shared the Nobel prize in medicine that year. Then right afterwards when I worked for a lab at Stanford, I connected more with Taylor in 1990 and then Perl in '95 when they won Nobels in physics. But I don't contribute to Cal or UCSF or Stanford. Maybe if they had a fanboy society for Nobel laureates perhaps...

I do contribute to the undergrad scholarship program to my engineering college alma mater in Chicago, but then they offered me a number of grants to get me through school as a student so it was only fair.
 
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