{"id":3904,"date":"2011-04-25T12:08:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T18:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/\/?p=3904"},"modified":"2011-04-25T12:08:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-25T18:08:38","slug":"twis-tressel-moves-ever-closer-to-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-tressel-moves-ever-closer-to-the-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"T*W*I*S:  Tressel Moves Ever Closer to the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3906\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3906\" style=\"width: 182px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jim-Tressell-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3906\" title=\"Jim Tressell 5\" src=\"\/\/blog.nsr-inc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Jim-Tressell-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"108\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3906\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tressel&#39;s days could be numbered as the NCAA gets closer.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ohio State head football coach Jim Tressel is in serious trouble.\u00a0 The NCAA is now after his hide for lying to investigators as well as to his own athletic director at OSU for declaring that he had no knowledge of potential issues involving his players.\u00a0 Why is it so hard for some people to step up to the podium and tell the truth?\u00a0 Is winning a few more games really so important that a coach would put his entire career and the college&#8217;s reputation at risk on the long-odds chance that he wouldn&#8217;t be found out?\u00a0 Apparently so.\u00a0 Yet, the irony is this:\u00a0it&#8217;s entirely\u00a0likely that had the allegations been made about another coach, Tressel&#8217;s best advice to that coach would have been to own the problem and get beyond it ASAP.\u00a0 When coaches are so embroiled in sorry circumstances that they lose perspective of\u00a0right and wrong,\u00a0why can&#8217;t they see their own integrity\u00a0sliding away on the slime they have laid down in front of\u00a0themselves?\u00a0 It&#8217;s a shame, but moreover, it was\u00a0avoidable had Coach Tressel simply said, &#8220;Columbus, we have a problem.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ohio State head football coach Jim Tressel is in serious trouble.\u00a0 The NCAA is now after his hide for lying to investigators as well as to his own athletic director at OSU for declaring that he had no knowledge of potential issues involving his players.\u00a0 Why is it so hard for some people to step &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/twis-tressel-moves-ever-closer-to-the-edge\/\">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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904"}],"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=3904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsr-inc.com\/scouting-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}