Jim Jordan Speaker Candidacy Roils Ohio State Wrestling Community
Source: Sports Illustrated
The trauma was compounded by a sense of betrayal. Wrestler after wrestler recalled complaining about Strauss to the head coach, Russ Hellickson, and to Jim Jordan, a onetime wrestling star in Wisconsin who served as OSU’s assistant coach from 1986 to ‘94.
In some cases, the wrestlers can recount specific dialogue with striking exactitude. Dunyasha Yetts, an All-American wrestler in the ’90s, recalls complaining to Jordan that he saw Strauss about a thumb injury and stormed out of the room when the doctor attempted to pull down his shorts. Yetts recalls Jordan saying that if Strauss ever approached him in a sexual manner, he’d “kill him.” Dan Ritchie, another wrestler, says he was present when Jordan was informed of abuse from Strauss. Jordan’s response: "If he did that to me, I'd snap his neck like a twig of dried balsa wood."
In all, at least 11 former wrestlers—as well as a wrestling referee—have said the OSU coaches knew and chose to do nothing. Strauss would continue to go unchecked until the mid ’90s, assaulting athletes without consequence. Nick Nutter, an All-American OSU wrestler in the ’90s and a Strauss survivor, recounted to me in 2020, as I was reporting this story, that he and his teammates made a calculus before deciding whether to see the team doctor. “Is this injury bad enough that I’m willing to get molested for it?”
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And it’s all the more reason he toggles between anger and confusion as he struggles to process Jordan’s defiant stance. “You have two presidents at Ohio State basically admitting [Strauss’s decades-long predation]. You have all this information. And you’re a congressman within the state of Ohio, where all that happened. And these are your athletes that you recruited,” says Schyck. “Well, guess what? We were harmed. And now you don’t want to do anything with that? I’m a wrestling coach now. I have athletes. All I want is to be there for them. It just baffles me to no end.”
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I know!!!!!!
I've been wondering what the hell has happened with that documentary. 
The last I heard was that it was going to be on HBO but I've never seen a release date. I don't even know if it actually even got made.
