Jim Tressel leaving day job to focus on his book signing tour

Ohio State University announced the forced "resignation" of Jim Tressel today.  Some thoughts:

• I love that I was woke up by a text message about this on Memorial Day.  Did the public relations department at Ohio State think that this wasn't going to be a huge story because they dropped it on a federal holiday.  One should note that they previously had increased Tressel's suspension from 2 to 5 games on St. Patrick's Day/first day of the NCAA basketball tournament to try to minimize the impact.
• What would tattoo parlor owner Ed Rife pay for a signed copy of Jim Tressel's book "Life Promises for Success:Promises from God on Achieving Your Best" today?
• First job offer for Tressel:  Las Vegas sports memorabilia store, Field of Dreams, has hosted weekly events with Pete Rose over the past 7 years where he autographs baseballs with the inscription, I'm Sorry I bet on baseball.  Rose left in February to pursue other options.  Tressel could slide right in and sign footballs with a similar inscription.  
• I hate to see someone lose their job, but there is a certain sense of validation when something your parents taught you from when you are 5 years old holds true in the real world.  If you do something wrong and then lie about it, it is significantly worse than just doing something wrong.  And if you fail to apologize for clearly doing something wrong despite the fact that you were supposed to apologize at a press conference for that purpose and then don't apologize for another 11 days it is even worse.  I think it went something like that.  
• Were the nuns from the Little Sisters of the Poor a part of the group of advisors to OSU president E. Gordon Gee that "allowed his resignation"?http://mtksportsnet.blogspot.com/2011/03/rules-of-succession-of-ohio-state.html
• The Urban Meyer talk will now reach a fever pitch as he reportedly bought Kirk Herbstreit's house, burnt it to the ground, and rebuilt it with a Tim Tebow statue out front or something like that.  I may be getting a few stories confused.
• Jim Tressel's firing (Let's call it what it is) is a big loss to the Ohio State University Medical Center as he has been a great fundraiser.  That loss in revenue could be offset by Urban Meyer's weekly trips to the Ross Heart Hospital with his mitral valve prolapse/esophageal spasm exacerbations.
• As an Ohio State fan, are you still happy that Terrell Pryor chose Ohio State over Penn State?  The program will continue to be successful, but there is a "mystique" that Ohio State will not recover.  Two words- Lawrence Phillips- this stuff doesn't go away.

Please share your thoughts and comments.