Delany also stipulated that he and the NCAA had been notified

Ohio State and Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany's variations of how and when main violations had been found previously this yr vary significantly, CBSSports.com has found.

That can quite possibly lead to more NCAA scrutiny in an currently deepening scandal in the college. Specialists say the discrepancy could trigger the NCAA Committee on Infractions to determine that investigators had been misled within the case that involved emails sent to former coach Jim Tressel.

In comments to the Columbus Dispatch on Sunday, Delany stated he learned that the now-former coach withheld emails through the school and the NCAA in mid-January. The commissioner -- "surprised and disappointed" -- additional that he discovered with the info at the same time as the college and also the NCAA due to an open records request.

When reached for comment, Delany confirmed what he told the Dispatch to CBSSports.com on Wednesday via a big Ten spokesperson. When asked again to clarify on Thursday and give a comprehensive timeline of occasions, Delany said that his feedback to the paper were an "un-refreshed recollection."

The university's self-report to the NCAA says the college discovered the emails "while reviewing information on an unrelated legal problem." Subsequent reviews by the Dispatch following the school's release of their self-report say that the emails were found whilst officials had been preparing the appeal of players' penalties in a related student-athlete reinstatement situation.

CBSSports.com obtained all Freedom of Information Act inquiries directed towards the university. In paperwork launched by a college spokesman, the earliest request in 2011 arrived from Bloomberg News requesting a duplicate with the school's NCAA Income and Expenditures Report on Jan. 24, a full eleven days after the college noted they became aware of the emails. Yahoo! Sports, which broke the news that Tressel had prior understanding of NCAA violations involving Buckeyes gamers, submitted its first open data request towards the college on Feb. 28.

In his remarks Sunday, Delany also stipulated that he and the NCAA had been notified immediately as soon as the emails had been discovered.

"In the case of [Ohio State president] Gordon [Gee] and [athletic director] Gene [Smith], let's place it by doing this: Once they had information concerning the tattoo situation, it went towards the NCAA," Delany informed the paper. "When they had info about Jim, it went to the NCAA. And fairly much in real time I realized about it."

But in accordance to the school's self-report and subsequent comments by Smith, Ohio State discovered the emails on Jan. 13, interviewed Tressel 3 days later on after which informed Delany on Feb. two and also the NCAA each day later.

"When we came back from the bowl video game, we discovered, via another procedure we had been gathering information on an additional issue, that there were some emails that Coach Tressel had received that had exposed that he had some prior understanding concerning the matter with our college student athletes," Smith stated at a March eight press conference. "We informed commissioner Jim Delany and also the extremely subsequent day we notified the NCAA of our matter.

"We asked them on Feb. three to arrive and join us in the investigation that was started."