Is that the class on how to cheat, lie about it and still pretend to be an upstanding person?
No it's a class about coaching football. I coached high school football for two years after a neck injury ended my opportunity to play in college, so I'm beyond excited to hear from a coach as good as Tressel about his thoughts on the game.
Honestly, I hope he gets fired though. Ohio State deserves players with some character, and the system at Ohio State doesn't facilitate that. It's not just Tressel or the football program, it's the athletics department's fault. They separate the kids from the regular student body (they live in the graduate student dorms), make sure their grades are at a certain level (in the easiest of classes, no less), and even go as far as having a police presence at bars where the players drink--to stop the students from lauding them? No, to stop them from taking pictures so there's little to no evidence they are there underage. In short, it's a system that pulls them away from the university's students, does everything but fabricate grades, and makes sure they are treated like kings on the weekend--as if football players needed any help hahah
To be fair, my cousin is the captain of the swim team, and another cousin was the captain of the wrestling team, from them and all other accounts, the student-athletes in every sport other than football and basketball are actual student-athletes. But the dirty **** Ohio State pulls with their money-making athletes is abhorrent and shameful. I could sit here for hours telling you a hundred stories of the football players, but it's useless as everyone here assumes what they are and are correct. Ohio State is a great university, I love everything about it except what goes on under Gene Smith's watch.
Also, I was at the scholar-athlete dinner two days ago, for all athletes above a 3.0 cumulative GPA. Guess how many basketball players were honored? Two. What a f*cking joke.
