Tuesday Top Ten: Things I Expect to Happen As a Result of Jim Tressel's Resignation

Jim Tressel's (forced) resignation yesterday sent shockwaves through the college football world, not so much because he shouldn't have resigned (he should have been fired months ago), but mainly because both he and Ohio State have been so cocksure throughout this entire scandal. When the dust settles after the NCAA's investigation, I'm expecting some major penalties (post-season bans, scholarship losses, vacate victories).

Here are ten predictions about what will happen as a result of Tressel's resignation. Some of these are completely contradictory, but that's just because I like to cover my bases.

10. Nothing. The NCAA will simply view Tressel's resignation and the school's self-imposed sanctions as good enough, and leave it at that. After all, Ohio State's above-the-law attitude throughout the whole process must mean that Ohio State is, in fact, above the law.

9. Tressel will get at least a five-year show-cause order from the NCAA, and he will never again have a coaching job in major college football. Hell, if Kelvin Sampson got a five-year show cause order for lying to IU and the NCAA about texting too much, then Tressel deserves at least that much.

8. IU will go to a bowl before Ohio State.

7. Some insane O$U fan will try to choke Tressel with a gray sweater vest.

6. O$U will have to vacate all of their victories since 2002 (aside from last season's Sugar Bowl, of course), making Tressel the losingest coach in Ohio State history and giving him a worse record against Michigan than John Cooper.

5. Urban Meyer will not set foot in Columbus, except maybe as an ESPN analyst.

4. Terrelle Pryor won't play another game in a Buckeye uniform.

3. O$U President G. Gordon Gee will manage to say something completely idiotic.

2. Daughter will learn how to sing along to the "thunder" parts of "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC (which the White Sox use as their intro) when I sing the "ah ah ah ah ah ah ahhh ah" parts. This really has nothing to do with Ohio State or Tressel, but it's been in the works for the past couple days, and it really started to come into its own yesterday after the news about Tressel surfaced.

1. The sweater vest market in Ohio will take a drastic nosedive.