Jim Tressel (official thread)

[osugrad21]

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Critics of Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel are off the mark -- Terry Pluto



Friday, January 11, 2008

Ohio State was picked to finish third in the Big Ten. Then the Buckeyes won their fourth conference football title in seven years. They knocked off Michigan . . . again.
They went to the national championship game and were crushed, 38-24, by LSU.
That proves it, Jim Tressel is a lousy big-game coach.




Cont...

[shetuck]

Bleacher Report- Ohio State Buckeyes: Doormats or Dynasty?

Ohio State Buckeyes: Doormats or Dynasty?

by Bill Burge
January 9, 2008

Turn on any national talk show in America and you will hear the jokes and slights.

The Ohio State Buckeyes are being disrespected by just about anyone outside the state of Ohio. Maybe this verbal berating is justified.

After all, the Buckeyes have been outscored in the past two BCS National Championship games by a combined total of 41 points.

It?s easy to point and laugh at the team that almost wins it all including such teams at the Buffalo Bills, Atlanta Braves or even the Cleveland Indians. To take shots at them is elementary. No brains needed for that.

Obviously, the Buckeyes did not belong on the same field as Florida or LSU. Yet, another perspective can be taken on this whole scenario that paints the Jim Tressel era at Ohio State as a legit dynasty not a runner-up.

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Five ten win seasons, five top five finishes, a BCS National Championship, and a Heisman Trophy award winner are just enough accolades to have your coaching questioned and your program called weak.

Ohio State has engineered 34 current NFL players and annually lead the Big Ten in Academic All Conference picks.

These accomplishments get you scrutinized by the national media? Who said being a head coach is a thankless job?

When it?s all said and done people will form any opinions they feel. I do believe that most of the negative connotations that are put upon Ohio State are because of fans, not football itself. You would be hard pressed to find any bad statistics from the Scarlet and Grey.

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So hosts can belittle Jim Tressel and they can use Ohio State?s name in jest. They can even question whether or not they really are ?The? Ohio State University, but the numbers do not lie.

In 50 years, when all this is just stat sheets and box scores, the picture that will be drawn will look a lot more like a dynasty than a doormat.

[CONGERSBUCKEYE]

There will be day for Tressel and his team and all Buckeye Fans to question their intelligence. Right now take it and work harder for when that day comes it will be that much more special. One does not go to 3 NC games in 6 years (hmm no coach Pete or Stoops have been to that many) by chance and when his record becomes 2-2 everyone will want to jump on. Just keep the names and look forward to the day to kick them off. Go Bucks

[vioravis]

A good email about JT from Lasalle's HC.

Link: 1530HOMER - The Sports Animal!

Alan,

I listen to your show every morning coming into school and you said this morning that you wanted to hear from Jim Tressel supporters and that is why I am e-amiling you this morning.

First of all I am a die hard OhioState fan. I have met Jim Tressel on multiple occasions while he was recruiting at LaSalle and of all of the head college football coaches that I have met in my 21 years as a head high school football coach he is by far the most impressive.

I heard you challenge him as a game coach and that he got out coached by Les Miles and I think that you are wrong. Jim won 4 National titles at YoungstownState and 1 at OhioState. A few years ago Jim went head to head against Les Miles and the buckeyes won easily by 30 or so points. OhioState had more talent than OklahomaState that year just like LSU had more talent than OSU this year. It still comes down to having players and I sincerely believe that the true measure of a coach is how they do when they don't always have the best talent. I maintain that this was a rebuilding year for OSU and for the buckeyes to get to the national championship game at all speaks volumes about coach Tressel.

As a true OSU fan I have to admit that Jim is a little conservative on offense. I wish that they would air it out more but that is not his style. I believe that Boeckman the OSU QB had trigger problems and that hurt the buckeyes as much as the mental mistakes. I saw receivers open and he couldn't pull the trigger. Maybe they didn't want him taking chances but sometimes you have to roll the dice and take chances. Michigan did that against Florida and that is one of the reason that they won.


Is the SEC better than the Big Ten? Yes, the SEC puts more players in the NFL than any other league in America. Like I said before it is all about the players. The competition in the SEC is brutal. Can the top teams in the big Ten compete with the SEC? I say yes. The big ten over the last 23 head to head games with the SEC is 11-12. Not bad? The bottom teams in the big ten are terrible. The bottom teams in the SEC are still pretty good. UK's win against LSU is a prime example of that.


In the GCL we experience that same thing in all of the sports. The GCL teams always do well in tournaments because we are battled tested from playing in our league.

I have to get going but I wanted to end with this story about Jim Tressel. Two years ago he was visiting LaSalle for the firts time and he stayed for 2 hours. He visited with our administrators and guidance staff and coaches. While we were waiting for a player to come out of class he said to me that when he gets fired from this job (that says a lot to me) he wants to teach Math at a CatholicHigh School and be the JV QB coach. He is not looking to go the NFL. He is a teacher first and he cares about his players. Troy Smith was saved because of coach Tressel. His family and home life was as bad as it gets and Jim Tressell helped save him with direction and guidance. In fact, one of the OSU assistant coaches shared with me that Jim never gives up on kids and they somtetimes wish that he would cut some loose but he believes that he can change individual lives and to be honest that is what we are here for.

Thanks for listeng to me and I am riding in at 7:15 to about 7:30 every morning.



Tom Grippa
Head Football Coach
LaSalleHigh School

[sandgk]

Wayne Woodrow (Woody) Hayes is the gold standard for coaching success and longevity at Ohio State.

Woody Hayes in 28 seasons at Ohio State --
Big Ten Championships - 13, a rate just under 0.5 championships per year of service.

1954 • 1955 • 1957 • 1961 • 1968 • 1969 • 1970 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977

National Championships - 3 consensus titles. A rate just under once every nine years. Positioned to try for the title on many other occasions.

1954 • 1957 • 1968

Jim Tressel has been at the helm now for seven seasons during which time ..
Big Ten Championships - 4, a rate over 0.5 championships per year of service, a current streak of 3 first place finishes in conference.
2002 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007

National Titles - one uncontested National Title, a rate, by definition of one title every seven years.
2002

More impressive yet, he has the Buckeyes vying for the national title one out of every two years of his service as head coach - that number and rate will go up again, and it will not take seven years for that to happen.

Yet, because of the most recent result, there are some calling him to account?

[MaxBuck]

Jim Tressel is, on balance, the best college football coach in my entire life experience. Those who think otherwise are dolts.

J/K. I just wish many fans could step away from current disappointment to better appreciate the entire body of work of this superb coach and fine human being.