Ohio HS FB coaches suggest honoring Tressel

Coaches in Kentucky will fire an assistant operations guy and accept a 20 percent raise - while on vacation.
Coaches in Southern California will find housing for their best players.
I wonder if coaches in Michigan ever got liquored up and yelled at restaurant patrons out of respect?

 

Naw. Just a teachable moment in which the NCAA could take it upon itself to teach the collective HS football coaches in Ohio, "If you intend to coach college football, follow the rules. If you want to pay official tribute to a guy who flagrantly and blatantly didn't, you get to take a year off from setting foot on NCAA campuses or applying for jobs with NCAA football schools. If you don't like them apples, we suggest you deep-six your little resolution. Or change it to something like, 'good luck in the future, Coach Tressel.' "

 

What a tool.

 

So it's not enough for the NCAA to punish Tressel and Ohio State, but you want the organization to punish anyone who respects the job Tressel did over the course of 25 years as a head coach? Oh, no ... that's not overreating at all!

The holier-than-thou types are allowed to try to tell a bunch of high school football coaches how they should feel about a guy who was revered in their state for years. But those coaches also have the right to tell those people to get bent.

Here's hoping they do just that.

 

Hooray for the rulebreakers!!

 

It's not that simple.

The high school coaches do not hold Tressel in some reverence because he danced around the NCAA rules. They respect him for something else altogether, such as his cooperation with the coaches. The different aspects CAN be separated.

Tressel's not all bad, just as he's certainly not all good.

 

Oh, yeah . . . he was a fracking angel at Youngstown State, too.

The trail is long and bloody. He made out like a bandit. I won't cry a minute for this particular fake.

 

You know, considering the amount of money involved in big-school recruiting, it seems naive not to think some falls into the pockets of high school football coaches.
Not that that would necessarily have anything to do with this inane gesture.

 

They do NOT have to pass a resolution berating Tressel for his flagrant and chronic disregard and willful violation of NCAA rules, although they would be factually accurate in doing so.

They would be perfectly within their rights to pass a resolution commending him for his positive contributions in the past and wishing him the best in the future.

The public sideline tribute stuff is a passive-aggressive protest against the evil forces (the evull media mainly and of course the NCAA) which have unfairly forced this sweet and innocent man to the sidelines.

These are fucking HIGH SCHOOL coaches attempting to organize a public tribute to rulebreaking.

The NCAA needs to fuckin' stomp on it. Follow the fucking rules. Oh, and high school coaches, get over yourselves. There's a reason you are high school coaches.

 

Maybe we could have tributes to Barry Switzer in Oklahoma and one for Jackie Sherrill in Texas and Mississippi as well.

 

If I'm an Ohio high school football coach and detect any of that attitude from the NCAA, you can be damn sure I'm going forward with that tribute.

 

And they'll be coaching in East Hooterville when they're 55.

If that's what they have planned anyway, more power to them, but I suspect a good number of them may have other aspirations.