Beleaguered Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel has resigned effective immediately, the Columbus Dispatch reported Monday.
The Dispatch obtained a memo written by President E. Gordon Gee to the Board of Trustees in which he said the announcement would come Monday morning. “As you know,” Gee wrote, “I have appointed a special committee to analyze and provide advice to me regarding issues attendant to our football program.
“In consultation with the senior leadership of the university and the senior leadership of the board I have actively been reviewing the matter and have accepted coach Tressel’s resignation.
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