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Jim Tressel (National Champion, ex-President, Youngstown State University, CFB HOF)

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http://www.cleveland.com/hssports/blog/index.ssf/2011/07/ohios_high_school_football_coa.html

Ohio's high school football coaches considering opening-game tribute to former OSU coach Jim Tressel

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Jim Tressel is gone and some would say disgraced, but he is not forgotten by Ohio high school football coaches.
Coaches are being encouraged to wear a white shirt and tie during their season openers next month to honor Tressel, who always wore a shirt and tie during games.
The idea was proposed by Solon coach Jim McQuaide last week when Tressel was inducted into the Ohio High School Football Coaches Association's Hall of Fame. The OHSFCA quickly advanced the recommendation to its more than 750 head coaches.
Tressel was forced to resign last month in the wake of an NCAA investigation, and Ohio State has since vacated all its 2010 victories. The controversy apparently has done little to lessen a strong bond Tressel built with high school coaches during his 26 years at Ohio State and Youngstown State.
"Whether he was he right or wrong, that's not our place," McQuaide said. "This is not to say he was fired wrongly. This is purely an appreciation for what he did." McQuaide said Tressel's annual participation in the organization's clinics and banquet helped raised thousands of dollars for scholarships. A dozen area coaches contacted Wednesday all expressed support for honoring Tressel. Several pointed to his emphasis on recruiting Ohio players from a wide cross-section of urban, suburban and rural schools. "I don't do ties, but I would do it for him," Shaw coach Rodney Brown said. "I would jump at the opportunity to honor Coach Tressel. He's a great man who fell on the sword for his players. He's an honorable man. I have T.Y. (Williams, a wide receiver) there, and I have no regrets."

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This should be a link to the 139 pages of the transcript of JT's interview with the NCAA on February 8, 2011. Tresell_transcript_x00139752x.pdf

Copy/paste this into your browser to see it. Yeah, they misspelled Tressel in the name for the link. It's also accessible by clicking on Exhibit 2-4 of the list inside this link.

osu.edu.ncaadocs

I believe that anybody that wants to express an intelligent opinion about tOSU's upcoming sanctions, the amount of blame that JT and/or tOSU should be responsible for, and/or comment on JT's motivations in what actions he did and did not take, should read this transcript beofre commenting further.

Please note that I'm not saying that JT didn't make a big mistake, and I'm not saying he shouldn't have been forced from his job. In this post I'm intentionally avoiding any expression of my own opinions on those matters.

I'm not even saying that reading the transcript will change someone's opinion on anything. But I am saying that someone that wants to weigh in on these issues at this point in time should take the time to read this transcript so that person is better informed before expressing an opinion.
 
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Random trinkets that are interesting to me from the pdf:

pp 35-36 said:
We work really hard, like I mentioned to you, in recruiting, sayingto moms and dads, you know, that this is a safe place to be. We?ll
? we?re gonna take good care of your son. You?ve done a great
job with him so far. We know it?s our responsibility, you know, to
do the rest for this chapter in his life..? We say that to the high
school coach, you know? We say that to the guidance counselor.
We say that to the principal. We say that to the position coach
from the high school team. I mean, it?s ? we?re committed to that.
That?s, to us, the biggest thing in the world. And we?re proud of
our record that we?ve had thousands of kids since I?ve been
coaching 36 years that, you know, it?s been a good deal, you
know? Their experience has served them well. But I?ve also had a
player murdered. I have a player incarcerated. I have had a couple
guys get sucked into the drug culture. I?ve had a player who
served a ten-year suspension for obstruction of justice, you know?
And those things, just like games, you remember the bad play in
the game that cost you the game. You don?t remember the 77 good
plays. And so, I mean, I ? you know, I was frightened.
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pp 43-44 said:
I didn?t think that that would be appropriate in light of the gravity of what the whole thing was about. And, you know, we always say to our guys, ?You?ll get as your works deserve, you know, whether
that?s the work you put in, you?ll get the kind of success in
football, or the work you put in, you?ll get the success
academically, or the other way, you know?
If you put the wrong kinda work in, you?re gonna get ? you know,
there?s no shortcuts. There?s no, you know, getting away from
something.? You know so I wasn?t concerned, you know, that our
guys don?t understand that, you know, if they do something wrong,
they?re gonna ? you know. Now what do all the agents and the
lowlife drug peddlers and all that say to our guys? ?You?ll ? don?t
worry. You?re not gonna get caught. No one?s e ever gonna
know,? you know, all that stuff.
I mean, you know. I mean, it?s, ?You deserve it. You?ve made
millions of dollars for the university.? I mean, you know, they
wear ?em out. And that?s when the guys crack and say, ?You
know what? You know, maybe I have a need at home or maybe I
just have a need for me, but ?? and, you know, we constantly
lecture them on, ?You?ll get as your works deserve.? But did I
think in light of this whole picture that that was the time to do that?
I did not.
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p 59 said:
Then the next bullet point was even more frightening to me. TJ
Downing was a guy that played for us ? probably his last year was
2005-ish, maybe ?06; ?05 or ?06. And just a year earlier, from this
e-mail, he was stopped in traffic with all kinds of guns and drugs
and drug paraphernalia all kinds of stuff in his car. He was one of
those guys that didn?t make it in the NFL, and, you know, went
into the funk that some of ?em do. And, you know, the sad part
about, you know, some kids is that when that dream bursts, they
struggle.
Well, he went the wrong way, and somehow got out of the
situation. Don?t know how. Don?t remember the case that well,
but I mean, it was like he?s going down the river, guns, and I mean,
a trunk full a drugs and, you know ? I mean, it was ? he called one
of our other former players to pick him up, you know, to ? I don?t
know ? at the scene or something because the police ? I don?t
know what the deal was. But I mean, it was ? and then our other
former player said, ?Oh, man, he?s dead. You should have seen all
this stuff.?
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p 62 said:
Chuck Smrt: Why keep that burden just to yourself?
Jim Tressel: You know, I ask myself that, you know, since we began discussing this in mid January, and then probably the only one I could come up with was I don?t know who can help me with this. I?ve got a
pretty big ego, and I gotta figure out how to deal with this. And,
you know, and I don?t have a clear, you know, clear thought in my
mind, you know, where to turn for help.
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p 110 said:
Chuck Smrt: Okay. Okay. Then just to kinda go through the fall, Tim asked
you about did you realize ? well, I guess maybe I wanna make sure
that ? did you believe those athletes were ineligible in the fall, in
the fall?
Jim Tressel: You know, I didn?t look at it that way. And understand what he
said, and I don?t discount, you know, the rules of that. But, no, I
guess I did not look at it that way. I looked at it, you know, that
there was gonna a moment where they were gonna be ineligible.
And it ? within the appropriate time constraints of the big picture,
they were gonna be ineligible. But, no, I did not ? you know, I did
not sit there saying ? I guess I didn?t know, either ? thank you ?
what the level of their involvement was, either. Okay?
You know, the case of the guy, with the $1,000.00 who misses four
games. I don?t know if my guy was involved with $300.00,
$9,000.00, whatever. So there wasn?t even a point in time where I
thought, ?Well, this guy just played on ineligible game,? or, ?This
guy just played four ineligible games,? you know, based upon
whatever his crime was.
My view, the way I was thinking was that they were going to have
inevitably if they were still here and not in prison, they were gonna
have NCAA sanctions. And when that day occurred that would
make it clear as to what those might be, we were gonna back that ?
you know, just like we would back anything else. So ?
Chuck Smrt: Okay. Go ahead.
Tim Nevius: How did you think that ? why did you think that there were gonna
be NCAA sanctions?
Jim Tressel: I thought the least of which was ? just based upon what I read
year? I mean ?
Tim Nevius: You just figured that it would come out through the investigation ?
the federal investigation?
Jim Tressel: Yeah. They had ?
Tim Nevius: But was there anything in those e-mails that suggested that the sale
of memorabilia involved criminal activity?
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Tim Nevius: And my point was, and it goes back to not reporting the
information.
Jim Tressel: Right.
Tim Nevius: You know, you?ve acknowledged that you didn?t report the
information. But then you suggest, though, that that might have
had to do with the fact that you anticipated consequences.
Jim Tressel: Mm-hmm.
Jim Tressel: That?s why I said inevitable. I mean, to me, it was inevitable. It
was pretty simple. We were either gonna be horribly in trouble
from a criminal standpoint, or we were gonna be minorly involved
in drug, you know, buying and stuff, or we were gonna face the
NCAA reality that we did some things with our memorabilia we?re
not allowed to do.
I was totally confident one of those was gonna happen.
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Tim Nevius: And you anticipated NCAA consequences.
Jim Tressel: Right.
Tim Nevius: However, I can?t figure out how you knew that the information
would be uncovered by the federal government. Because there
nothing in the e-mails that suggest that the memorabilia was
somehow involved with the criminal activity.
Jim Tressel: You, I don?t know that I knew. Just like I didn?t know, you know,
if our guys were involved with drug trafficking or not. But that?s
what I thought, that if our guys are a part of a criminal thing, that?s
gonna take precedence. If they?re not, we?re gonna have a
problem from an NCAA standpoint because according to the
e-mails it appears to me that there?s a good chance that they sold
some memorabilia.
Tim Nevius: But now if the federal government never delivered that letter and
said that, ?We found this memorabilia,? in your mind, how would
there have been NCAA violations? How would it have been
discovered that there were NCAA violations if the federal
government did not deliver that letter to the university?
Jim Tressel: I guess I couldn?t fathom the thought that when a criminal
investigation was completed, that the stuff would have been
brought back to our attention.
Tim Nevius: So you were confident that the ?
Jim Tressel: Yeah.
Tim Nevius: ? investigation was gonna uncover the sale of ?
[Crosstalk]
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Malcolm is often rocking a classic JT pic for his twitter user pic, his latest is no exception:
http://twitter.com/#!/MalcolmJenkins


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