i always liked and respected spielman but i found his actions during tatgate to be totally bizarre.

he unnecessarily threw tress (a supposed good friend and enormous contributor to his wife's charity) and the program under the bus ...and then fast forward to a week or two ago when every other espn talking head was crucifying paterno...spiel's becomes the level headed one that's asking everybody to wait for the facts to come out.

i look at it like this:

you have 2 hall of fame ex buckeyes/former NFL stars. one of them dropped what he was doing to come back to help his friend and his program when they needed him most. the other went out of his way to make a bad situation even worse.

coaching abilities aside, I'm taking vrabel on my staff any day of the week.

I also don't like the idea that spielman's bitching and moaning was somehow an underhanded strategy to move himself onto the OSU staff.