The news of the day on Friday from the NCAA should have been cause for a party within the athlete department at Ohio State.

The NCAA notified the school it found no evidence the school failed to properly monitor its football program or evidence of a lack of institutional control.

Apparently, having its coach lie to NCAA and cover up illegal action, at least in the eyes of the NCAA, of its high-profile football players does not constitute failure to monitor or lack of institutional control.

Congrats to the Ohio State athletic department. It's obvious getting rid of Coach Jim Tressel is all it took. Terrelle Pryor leaving probably didn't hurt either.

As for the NCAA? Let's see if the governing body hammers the Buckeyes with its upcoming ruling. Friday's news probably means it won't be as bad as many thought, but who knows. The NCAA continue to confuse.

- Mark Podolsi

Kudos to Buckeye great Chris Spielman, who had the guts to call it like he sees it this week when talking about Jim Tressel and Terelle Pryor.

The ex-OSU linebacker is miffed by what he believes was special treatment by Tressel, who resigned on Monday, when handling Pryor the past three seasons.

Spielman sounded off on the matter in an interview with WBNS in Columbus.

"I think (Pryor) has played his last game," he said. "I don't know if you guys have heard this. I've heard through players, former players, that (Pryor) operated and was allowed to operate by his own set of rules. Being late to meetings. Being late to practice. Not showing up for workouts. I don't know if that's true or note true. If it is I'm so disappointed in the leaders of the team that allowed that go on, that allowed a player not to show up without either confrontation, physical or verbal first, physical if necessary."

Spielman said there was an easy solution to stop Pryor's reported set of rules.

"...If he was two seconds late for a meeting, bye, bye. That's how I would operate."

- Mark Podolski