well isn't this fabulous

• derek bomar

  

  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

  

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

  If you can win games or be a productive member of the team then you're sexuality shouldn't matter.
• Fab1b

  

  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

  

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

  Word.
• stroups

  

  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.
• Swamp Fox

  I think Jim is right.
• september63

  

  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

  

  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.
• BigDog

  Hell, I'd put Jeffery Dahmer on the field if he'd score touchdowns every game.
  
  
  Win Baby Win.
• september63

  

  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

  

  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
• Zoltan

  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.