Jim Tressel (official thread)

[GoodLifeSean]

I grew up a little south of Youngstown and remember when he got hired I was extatic, Hell YSU had just been to the D-IAA Nat'l Champ game like 2-3 years before and I thought it was a great choice... and as a bonus my best friend who was a Penguin and a scUM fan saw the light

[BuckeyePride]

I want to meet this guy and shake his hand. that was a good call man.

Jim Tressel showed Buckeye fans and college football fans everywhere what type of a coach Ohio State has found. The press conference displayed his expectations of high academic success and his demand for players to respect the team and OSU. Coach Tressel will bring back academic and athletic success to the football program, as well as Ohio State as a whole. He will bring discipline back to OSU and he will bring a national championship back to Ohio.

Jason Sarver
Columbus, Ohio

[Buck68]

Jim Davidson's 7/25 OZone/Youtube interview with Coach on 'the spread' was IMO thee most revealing public commentary on offense i've heard of/seen in...a long time. I'd like to compare Coach's comments with fact and tactics to discuss how this latest input of Coach's thinking might affect our ... offense. But...i first must listen to the posters' comments regarding my participation here, in the Sound Off thread....

[Buckskin86]

Tressel is homebody during vacation season
Thursday, July 31, 2008
By Tim May
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH


JAMES D. DECAMP | THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
"I like to spend any free time I have being at home," OSU football coach Jim Tressel says. "I'll read a little bit. Work out. Relax."

August is just a day away, but the summer vacation season has already come and gone for Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel.

That doesn't matter to him, because he thinks this is when the fun begins, with preseason camp opening Sunday.

His idea of vacation is an occasional weekend away with his wife, Ellen, and/or his family, or just chilling for three or four days at home.

Tressel has encouraged his assistant coaches to get away for a week or two in the summer, but he said he doesn't need a similar break, even though he is entering his eighth season running one of the country's highest-profile football programs.

"I've never felt uncharged," Tressel said. "I really don't know what that feels like. If I didn't have to, I wouldn't take a vacation. As I've said, one of the difficult things about coaching is the work is more fun than fun. That's the way I feel. I don't have a need to get recharged."

To the untrained ear, Tressel might sound like a classic workaholic -- but not to Tuck T. Saul, a psychologist and life coach near Worthington.

"You are really talking about the ideal situation that most people strive for," Saul said. "And that is, what they do (for work) is really consistent or congruent with what their values and interests are. When we find that, then it no longer becomes work in a negative sense."

For a man such as Tressel, "It's not like it somehow takes effort in the morning to get going and get to work, because that work is something that person truly looks forward to," Saul said.

It's not as if Tressel eats and sleeps in the Woody Hayes Athletic Center. He enjoys his time away, and he must be able to flip the mental switch because as he has often said, he never has a problem sleeping, even during a season.

"Ellen and I will get away for a weekend or two," Tressel said. "But you know what I like to do when I take a couple of days off? I just like to go home."

BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Tressel is homebody during vacation season

[osugrad21]

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Christian Publishers Offer Tales of Gridiron

By JULIE BOSMAN
Published: July 29, 2008
Tyndale House Publishers, a Christian company that was founded in 1962 to print a more reader-friendly version of the Bible, has had one of its biggest successes in the last year with a string of books on a slightly less religious topic: football.
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Jim Tressel, Ohio State University?s head football coach and the author, with Chris Fabry, of "The Winners Manual."

First Chapters

"The Winners Manual" by Jim Tressel (pdf)

"Don?t Bet Against Me!" by Deanna Favre (pdf)

"Quiet Strength" by Tony Dungy (pdf)


"Don?t Bet Against Me!" by Deanna Favre was published in hardcover last September, and sold more than 75,000 copies.



Next Sunday Tyndale will have its third football-related book in a year reach the New York Times best-seller list, No. 3 on the ?advice, how-to and miscellaneous? category ? unusual for a publisher whose most profitable non-Bible product until now has been the ?Left Behind? series of apocalyptic novels.
The book, ?The Winners Manual,? is a guide to applying lessons learned in football to everyday life, written by Jim Tressel, Ohio State University?s head football coach, with Chris Fabry.

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[Buckskin86]

The Business Of College Football
The Best (And Worst) College Football Coaches For The Buck
Peter J. Schwartz 08.13.08


Jim Tressel

No. 1 Most Underpaid

Ohio State University, Buckeyes

Conference: Big Ten

Score: 122

Record since 2005: 33-5 (1-2 in BCS bowl games)

His teams have finished ranked in the top five in five of the past six years, while his $2.6 million salary was lower than eight of his peers last season

To measure bang for the buck, we developed a metric that compares a coach?s 2007 salary with his team?s performance over the past three years. Bonus points were awarded for winning any of the five prestigious Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bowl games. A score of 120 means that the coach achieved 20% more victories per dollar of pay than the average coach.

To draw a fair comparison, we included only the 65 coaches from schools in the six major conferences, which took in a collective $1.7 billion last year and accounted for 87% of total college football revenue, as well as independent powerhouse Notre Dame (college football?s most valuable team). Coaches who negotiated new deals for more money during the most recent off-season were excluded.

By our count, Carroll delivered more than his money?s worth. He has led USC to a 34-5 record since 2005 (including the 2007 and 2008 Rose Bowl titles), a record that is 54% better than the median coach in our analysis. As a result, Carroll scores a 114, meaning college football?s highest earning coach was 14% underpaid.

But the best bargain was Ohio State?s Jim Tressel, who scored a 122. Tressel has led the Buckeyes to the last two national championship games (losing to Florida in 2007 and Louisiana State in 2008) and was paid $2.6 million last season, less than eight of his peers.

The Best (And Worst) College Football Coaches For The Buck - Forbes.com

[Bleed S & G]

Originally Posted by Buckskin86

The Best (And Worst) College Football Coaches For The Buck - Forbes.com

1-2 in BCS Games? He is 1-2 in National Championship games...