If you aren't impressed with -- or are downright disgusted by -- the handling of the Jim Tressel affair, this nugget from ESPN.com probably won't help:

Ohio State officials, in a letter to the NCAA, initially wrote that they considered suspending football coach Jim Tressel from participating in spring practice and summer camps as part of his punishment for breaking NCAA rules, but the school ultimately elected to allow him to participate in his team's offseason programs.

Tressel, who has guided the Buckeyes to seven Big Ten titles and the 2002 BCS national championship, was suspended Tuesday from coaching in Ohio State's first two games in 2011 and was fined $250,000.

He also will have to attend an NCAA rules seminar and issue a public apology.

Yeah, he's suffered enough.