Archive well isn't this fabulous

derek bomar

Posts: 3,722

Mar 9, 2010 5:09pm

http://backporch.fanhouse.com/2010/03/08/jim-tressel-would-embrace-an-openly-gay-buckeye/?ncid=txtlnkusspor00000002

...I would think more of them would go to UM before OSU though...

stroups

Posts: 3,223

Mar 9, 2010 5:13pm

I know I have posted this pic on another thread but it cracks me up

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dtdtim

Posts: 358

Mar 9, 2010 5:16pm

If you can win games or be a productive member of the team then you're sexuality shouldn't matter.

Fab1b

Posts: 12,949

Mar 9, 2010 5:17pm

Could you imagine if a coach said pubicly he wouldn't embrace a gay athlete on the team?? The press would have a field day with that!!

justincredible

Posts: 32,056

Mar 9, 2010 5:18pm

dtdtim wrote: If you can win games or be a productive member of the team then you're sexuality shouldn't matter.

Word.

stroups

Posts: 3,223

Mar 9, 2010 5:19pm

The coach isn't going to care, it's going to be the people on his team and the people he is playing against that will have a problem with it.

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Swamp Fox

Posts: 2,218

Mar 9, 2010 5:19pm

I think Jim is right.

september63

Posts: 5,789

Mar 9, 2010 5:22pm

You are both correct. Tressel said what he had to, whether he believed it or not. I think he was being honest. The bigger question would still be, how would kids 18-22 handle having an opnly gay teammate?

justincredible

Posts: 32,056

Mar 9, 2010 5:24pm

stroups wrote: The coach isn't going to care, it's going to be the people on his team and the people he is playing against that will have a problem with it.

Which, IMO of course, is a damn shame.

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BigDog

Posts: 59

Mar 9, 2010 5:30pm

Hell, I'd put Jeffery Dahmer on the field if he'd score touchdowns every game.

Win Baby Win.

september63

Posts: 5,789

Mar 9, 2010 5:36pm

Well, a rehabbed juvenile murderer getting a 2nd chance to go to college and play football would get more respect from teammates than an openly gay football player. IMO, very sad but true.

darbypitcher22

Posts: 8,000

Mar 9, 2010 5:37pm

Fab1b wrote: Could you imagine if a coach said pubicly he wouldn't embrace a gay athlete on the team?? The press would have a field day with that!!

They did. Renee Portland, former Women's Basketball Coach at Penn State said she had a no lesbians policy. This along with poor performance cost her her job

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Zoltan

Posts: 1,003

Mar 9, 2010 5:54pm

september63 wrote: You are both correct. Tressel said what he had to, whether he believed it or not. I think he was being honest. The bigger question would still be, how would kids 18-22 handle having an opnly gay teammate?

I agree any coach would say that if backed into a corner, but JT granted the interview request without any pressure or obligation to do so.

I have to think an openly gay football player would be alienated by at least a few of his teamates, although probably not to his face. I could actually see the player getting abused by others teams fans so bad that the team he was on would rally around him.