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Pressure. That’s what paralyzed and kept Ohio 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. In failing to comply with NCAA rules, Coach Tressel proved that even guys that wear sweater vests will compromise their principles in exchange for winning a few football games in the vaunted Big Ten Conference. He claims not to have known who to approach about the issue. In short, he froze under the pressure. 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. But, one thing is certain, Coach Tressel’s reputation as an honest, straight forward man who runs a clean program would have surely remained in tact. Today, he stands a shadow of the man he claimed to be. Courage is a commodity which coaches talk a lot about in prospects’ 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.
National Scouting Report is dedicated to finding scholarship opportunities for athletes who possess the talent, desire, and motivation to compete at the collegiate level. We’ve helped connect thousands of athletes with their perfect college.