Go, there is no apologizing ...it is people waiting for someone (in authority, not media) to tell them what is so wrong that he has to step down. No one has yet done so ...not even Tressel in his resignation address. I grew up an SC fan ...yet I hate anything and everything about Pete Carrol ...almost since the day he started. I watched my team become the Lakers. Heck did Jack buy a seat at the Coliseum? Yet Carrol was so successful. Why do I dislike him? Character ...or lack of it. Tressel believes in a higher-calling and does have moral authority; but like many overly-religious ...he can be a bit naive. Yet, the dedication is unquestionable. He truly loves things like his players saying prayers together, and singing the Alma-mater. He used to email Ray Isaac psalms. He eats, sleeps and drinks OSU, and did the same while here at YSU. He is the last of his kind and ESPN knows this. He will be the butt of family guy jokes next ...this is how your media works.
There are plenty of people down here in Columbus that wanted to put Tressel out-to-pasture for losing those title games. However, I think that you will find most all of those same people support him to this day, in this current situation. You just simply have to know the man. It is not a win-at-any cost attitude ...it is simply doing the best that you can, with what you have been given. I agree about the coach not showing Go; but it is words like yours that is the reason why. Besides, you would have not even expected him to show if he was still employed ...so that is a little unfair is it not? "..well golly gee wizz coach, since you're not doing anything these days ...how about an appearance?" Tressel was at the dedication of the new wing and at the crowning of WATTS.
Just so everyone knows ..I am only a YSU fan. So I am fairly unbiased. When Tressel left YSU ...Heacock became my man. When Heacock left ...Wolford became my man. I eat sleep and drink YSU sports only. If YSU does not play it, I don't care about it. I cheered for Nebraska last night. Why? Their head coach is from Youngstown. I could honestly care less about the entire Big-10. Without Tressel ...I do not like OSU any more, or less, than UM. To me they are the same, and both symbolic of why I hate the BCS level of football. Which is why I do a YSU site/board ...and not something for the Big-10. The greater issue for me, right now, is what is happening to my football program.