Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany says had he known then what he knows now he might not have defended the five Ohio State players who were allowed to play in the Sugar Bowl.
With Delany, Ohio State coach Jim Tressel and athletic director Gene Smith asking for leniency from the NCAA, the five players were permitted to play in the bowl game and wait until this fall to begin serving a five-game suspension for accepting money and tattoos from the owner of a Columbus tattoo parlor.
It wasn’t until more than a week after the Buckeyes’ 31-26 victory over Arkansas that Ohio State officials discovered Tressel had known about the players’ violations for more than nine months.
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