{"id":3502,"date":"2011-03-14T07:52:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T13:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=3502"},"modified":"2011-03-14T07:52:05","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T13:52:05","slug":"twis-why-buckeye-football-coach-jim-tressel-screwed-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-why-buckeye-football-coach-jim-tressel-screwed-up\/","title":{"rendered":"T*W*I*S:  Why Buckeye Football Coach Jim Tressel Screwed Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jim-Tressel-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3504\" title=\"Jim Tressel 4\" src=\"\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jim-Tressel-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a>Pressure.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what\u00a0paralyzed and kept\u00a0Ohio State head football coach, Jim Tressel, from coming forward last April with information about two of his prized players having sold memorabilia to a Columbus, Ohio, pawn shop owner.\u00a0 In failing to comply with NCAA rules, Coach Tressel proved that even guys\u00a0that wear sweater vests\u00a0will compromise their principles in exchange for winning a few football games in the vaunted Big Ten Conference.\u00a0\u00a0He claims not to have known who to approach about the issue.\u00a0 In short, he froze under the pressure.\u00a0 We cannot say what would have happened to those two student-athletes, the team or Tressel himself had he elected to do the right thing and tell the truth.\u00a0 But, one thing is certain,\u00a0Coach Tressel&#8217;s reputation as an honest, straight forward man\u00a0who runs a clean\u00a0program would have surely remained in tact.\u00a0 Today, he stands a shadow of the man he claimed to be.\u00a0 Courage is a commodity which coaches talk a lot about in prospects&#8217; living rooms, team locker rooms and during lofty, inspirational speeches to alumni groups, but for that particular characteristic to be spoken again by Jim Tressel in any of those places, he will first have to muster some of it for himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure.\u00a0 That&#8217;s what\u00a0paralyzed and kept\u00a0Ohio State head football coach, Jim Tressel, from coming forward last April with information about two of his prized players having sold memorabilia to a Columbus, Ohio, pawn shop owner.\u00a0 In failing to comply with NCAA rules, Coach Tressel proved that even guys\u00a0that wear sweater vests\u00a0will compromise their principles in exchange &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-why-buckeye-football-coach-jim-tressel-screwed-up\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[10,17,29,30,56,57,61,222,79,87,94,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}