http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/Ohio-State-coach-Jim-Tressel-ran-out-of-plausible-deniability-053111 
It’s called plausible deniability.
And for years, Jim Tressel used it to portray himself as a rare beacon of integrity in the polluted world of college football.
But it all finally caught up with him Monday when he was forced to resign as Ohio State’s coach amid an inferno of an NCAA investigation threatening to leave the Buckeyes program in ashes.
Tressel’s resignation was hardly unexpected after he admitted in March that he had lied nearly three months earlier about not having knowledge of Buckeyes players, including star quarterback Terrelle Pryor, swapping memorabilia with a Columbus tattoo parlor owner. That was despite receiving emails indicating such in April 2010, but hiding them out of “confidentiality.”
Yet truth be told, we shouldn’t have been surprised by Tressel’s deceitfulness. Because until the emails surfaced, he had always somehow not known about illegal benefits provided to his players and, most importantly, got away with it repeatedly.
That included the approximately $10,000 that Tressel’s star quarterback Ray Isaac received at Youngstown State, the money that Ohio State running back Maurice Clarett took from 2002-2003, and $500 that former Buckeye and Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Troy Smith received from a booster in 2004.
In each instance, "The Senator" (as Tressel is known for his deft ability to sidestep even the simplest questions) claimed plausible deniability.
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