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01-03-2008, 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by MililaniBuckeye
I thought it was once they were off scholarship. When JT took Gonzo and White to the game, weren't they still on scholarship for that term although their football eligibility was completed? You mean to say that right now if Tressel made the same arrangements for Gonzo it would still be a violation although Gonzo is no longer in the university system?
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It makes sense to me that the rules would apply to former players for the remainder of their lives. Think of the alternative. Coaches, Universities, boosters, would be free to pay any and all players as much as they wanted to. They'd just have to wait until after the players leave school. |
01-03-2008, 04:49 PM
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Some meaningful comments about JT from some of his players.
official.site.press.conference
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Q. Guys, it's going to be the hat versus
the vest on the coaching sidelines there. Could
you talk about the vest and what does he bring
to the table and why do you guys admire him
as a coach?
ALEX BOONE: Class. He brings class to
the table. Obviously that's one of the things he
stresses most on us that we should always play
with class and obviously he's a genius. He's
smart. He knows a lot about football. I think just
by watching him coach you can see what kind of a
guy he is. He gets you fired up in a different sort of
way. He's not off the wall, bonkers, you really don't
even know if he's happy, sad, anything.
But, I mean, like I said, though, he brings a
lot of class to the table, and that's what he teaches
us.
BRIAN ROBISKIE: I can't talk about
Coach Miles too much. I've had a chance to play
for him. He has to be a pretty good coach to have
his team in that game. But just talking about
Coach Tressel, I think the person that you see kind
of in the media and doing all the interviews, he's
the same with us. He's not like he's a coach that
goes and acts one way with a certain crowd and
comes back and acts completely different with us.
I think the kind of guy he is is kind of very
representative of the team and how we represent
ourselves.
BRIAN HARTLINE: Really, with Coach
Tressel, I think it's one guy that I'm actually proud
to say I can play for. There's a handful, and not
just because he put together this staff. When they
say who is really influential in your life, immediately
comes Coach Tressel and his staff. So he's
impacted who I am. He's impacted so many
people across the country.
To really be able to -- if someone asks you
who you are, to be able to look at them and sit with
them and say, I'm an Ohio State football player,
and to have it really totally describe you, it's really
in the fall of Coach Tressel, between academics,
class, kind of your personality, how well-rounded
you are, and then the football dedication is, again,
all due to Coach Tressel.
And maybe a decade ago, half decade
ago, maybe you couldn't say that, maybe mid-'90s
or so. But now with Ohio State football, you can
describe yourself as Ohio State football player and
you're a well-rounded person. And that truly is
Coach Tressel's doing.
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01-04-2008, 03:32 PM
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When it comes to wits, Tressel miles ahead of Les
Jan. 4, 2008
By Gregg Doyel
CBSSports.com National Columnist
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The man doesn't make mistakes, anywhere. He can be boring off the field and his teams can be boring on it, but Ohio State doesn't beat Ohio State. Tressel simply won't let it happen.
He knows how to milk the 60-minute game clock better than any college coach I've ever seen, a skill that's hard to define with words but is easy to recognize with eyes. It's a lack of panic. It's an abundance of patience. It's complete trust in his players that they have been meticulously prepared to win the game, and that at the end of 60 minutes, they will do just that.
Watch this game unfold. You'll see what I mean. There will come a point in the game for each coach to do something dramatic. Les Miles will fall for it, taking an unnecessary risk because he thinks that's what a good coach does. It might even work, because after all, LSU does have all kinds of talent. Tressel won't succumb to the moment. He will make the moment succumb to him.
Back to my original point on Miles and his handling of the Michigan job, being unable to control the story to the point where the story could have consumed him and his team. That would never happen with Tressel. How do I know? Because it never has happened with Tressel.
Don't be stupid. Don't think that, in an absence of stories linking Tressel to this job or that one, that it hasn't happened. You don't think another college powerhouse or, more likely, an NFL team has called Tressel about becoming its new coach in the past several years or even the last several weeks? Please.
Tressel, and Urban Meyer of Florida, are the best two coaches in college football. The two most complete packages. Those guys could win at a big school, at a small school, and in the NFL. They're that good, and everyone in the business knows it.
You don't think an NFL team has tried to pry Tressel from the Buckeyes? Sure it has. Only you never hear about it because Tressel wouldn't stand for it.
Unlike Miles, whose ego or ignorance or naivet? allowed the Michigan story to go haywire, Tressel won't allow it. He's smart enough to understand that his situation -- whether it's a career move or an in-game coaching decision -- is best served if he is in complete control.
Miles hasn't learned that. He's too easily controlled, a puppet who doesn't know he's a puppet, and he'll be controlled Monday night. Jim Tressel will be holding the strings.
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01-04-2008, 03:43 PM
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This is definitely a piece of media-generated bulletin board dvd material for the Tigers. (Had to update it for the new century...)
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01-04-2008, 04:15 PM
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Everyone just wait, because next year is going to be one hell of a ride. You think the players will be motivated? Just watch Tressel. He's going to learn from this and I think will do his best coaching job yet.
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01-04-2008, 04:17 PM
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Miles hasn't learned that. He's too easily controlled, a puppet who doesn't know he's a puppet, and he'll be controlled Monday night. Jim Tressel will be holding the strings.
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WOW. Of course, if you feel like becoming alarmingly dumber over the course of 10 minutes, you can read Mike Freeman's rebuttal. |
01-04-2008, 06:07 PM
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