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Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye
Uh, the 2001 Outback Bowl is not his "first experience" at post season play. He had 25 division I-AA playoff games in the '90s, including six national title games. Trust me, those six title games were far more pressure-packed than that Outback Bowl...the loss wasn't caused by Tressel being a "newbie" in the post season.
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I think he was probably referring to JT's first experience in dealing with the long layoff and other intangibles that make it different from what he was used to in 1-AA. Not strictly gameplanning or dealing with a big game environment.
Everything I have ever read from coaches talking about Bowl games they mention how hard it is to find the right balance of hard work time and let up time in order to get a team to play at their peak 4-6 weeks from the last regular season game.
Kirk Ferentz got his ass handed to him the first Bowl go around in Iowa and said he learned a lot of lessons from it then came out and [censored] stomped Florida last year. Lou Holtz and Paterno were masters at it, Coop was a case study in what not to do. There are millions of examples but there is definitly something to learning how to get a team ready over that long layoff period.