The brass at Ohio State didn't even know there would be an article until it was pretty much too late to do anything. You just don't find out on Friday there is going to be an article and fire him on Monday. At that point they don't even know if the allegations in the article are true or even exactly what is going to be said. It takes a while to do these things because lawyers will always be involved. Yes I know Ohio State has the misstatement on the October compliance report as cause but the last thing they want is a public battle of any sort. You just don't get that kind of agreement over a holiday weekend.
I've thought for a while that if the administrators were going to fire Jim Tressel that they had to do it now. The NCAA has been in town for a while and I'd be disappointed if there hasn't been off the record conversations between Gene Smith, The Compliance Group, and key members of the NCAA infractions committee about "what can we expect?" Assuming the response wasn't good for Coach Tressel, waiting until the official ruling could be devastating. Once camp starts making a change any time before NLoI day in February would be really messy. Better to do it now to minimize the damage to the program than wait and affect the regular season and recruiting.
Dohrmann will get the rep as someone that fired Coach Tressel but it isn't true. He just had fortunate timing for his article.
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