A fellow coach reported that Tressel would rig the raffles at his football camps for the superstars.
"In the morning he would read the Bible with another coach. Then, in the afternoon, he would go out and cheat kids who had probably saved up money from mowing lawns to buy those raffle tickets. That's Jim Tressel."That man is a dirt bag.
J
Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/magazine/05/30/jim.tressel/index.html#ixzz1OYYmQTdX
2 comments:
I hate to disagree, but I propose that any hotshot asst coach looking to move up would gladly rig a raffle so the top recruits would leave feeling good.
I think that a large majority of top flight coaches look at things like Bill Parcels did. The best players get treated differently. They get a little attention from the boosters.
Nothing in that article was even a remote surprise to me because I 100% believe that most of it goes on every single day across the NCAA.
S
Surprise isn't my feeling.
You know that I think it is all a smoke screen and have always thought Ohio State and Penn State were being protected.
It is just, so low to rig a raffle from the little kids that worship the program.
The cheating and signing of criminals is just part of college sports, but to cheat 8-10 year olds is unacceptable.
j
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