COLUMBUS, Ohio — A half-decade before Baylor dominated this past weekend's news cycle with a barrage of firings and hirings, Ohio State was responsible for college football's seemingly annual Memorial Day news dump.
And the five years that have followed the forced resignation of former Buckeyes head coach Jim Tressel have only brought clarity to the ramifications of the de facto firing.
Recruiting in Columbus has changed—as have on-field results—as the future of one of college football's most prominent programs finds itself with a new trajectory moving forward. Nothing at Ohio State has been the same since Tressel's firing—only not necessarily in the way many would have expected in late May of 2011.