Will This Year's Team Play Tresselball?

[BuckBojangles]

Fellow BP'ers,

What do you think? Will this year's team actually play Tresselball?

I have a feeling that with all of the offensive weapons and the experience and capabilities of all of a our skill players, no team will keep them out of the end zone.

Furthermore, because the defense will be relatively new, the offense must step forward and control the game. It's just a question of whether it's a possession game or a run up the score game.

Regardless, the team we field next year will be uncharacteristically electrifying on offense. I don't know if we'll be able to recognize them, but we'll be glad their the Buckeyes.

Because Troy's decision making has become sound and the general offenses execution has been stellar, I don't see JT puting the stoppers on the offense at all. Forget 3 yards and a cloud of dust. It's going to be 100 yards and a whole lotta wo nelly.

[JXC]

Originally Posted by BuckBojangles

Fellow BP'ers,

What do you think? Will this year's team actually play Tresselball?

I have a feeling that with all of the offensive weapons and the experience and capabilities of all of a our skill players, no team will keep them out of the end zone.

Furthermore, because the defense will be relatively new, the offense must step forward and control the game. It's just a question of whether it's a possession game or a run up the score game.

Regardless, the team we field next year will be uncharacteristically electrifying on offense. I don't know if we'll be able to recognize them, but we'll be glad their the Buckeyes.

Because Troy's decision making has become sound and the general offenses execution has been stellar, I don't see JT puting the stoppers on the offense at all. Forget 3 yards and a cloud of dust. It's going to be 100 yards and a whole lotta wo nelly.

Personally...I don't feel that "Tresselball" is exactly what you are kind of refering to it being here.

Tresselball is playing to the team's strengths, minimizing mistakes, and doing exactly what you need to do to win. The goal is to hopefully have this be by having a balance offense, a sound defense that does not allow the big play, and winning the special teams battle. Not just running the ball three times and then punting. That's not the goal behind Tresselball.

Tresselball, at least to me, is not holding back an offense. It is protecting the ball when it is obvious that the other team can't win unless you make a big mistake.

Tresselball is awareness about what is going on during a game to know what exactly you need to do to win. If you are up 14 points, and your defense is dominating the game, you may run the ball more than you would in a different situation.

So yes, we will be playing Tresselball this year. We won't be going for it on 4th and 4 at our own 40, like USC seems to always do. But will be run the ball just to run the ball? No. That's not what Tresselball means.

I think we will still run the ball quite a bit, though. I mean come on! We have a great rushing attack. I think we will also still play field position and speical teams will be the key to sucess of this team. That's how you win football games.

We had over 600+ yards against Notre Dame...and that game was a great example of Tresselball, so, yes we will play Tresselball.

I just am not a fan of people equating Tresselball to no offense, or holding back an offense, and winning games just on defense.

You want to define Tresselball...here's a good definition.

Tresselball (n): Winning a football game because you have Jim Tressel as your head coach, and the other team doesn't.

[NFBuck]

I wouldn't classify last years playcalling as "Tresselball", as it is popularly known, so no.

[methomps]

http://mb4.scout.com/framsinsiderfrm...topic&index=17

[crazybuckfan40]

Yeah that was posted here about a month ago, but it is still hilarious.

[scooter1369]

Superior Special Teams
Dominating Defense
Mistake Free, Opportunistic Offense

Yes. This team will play "Tressel ball", and make it look easy.

[Kueller]

I sure as heck hope we play more tresselball next year than we did this year. What do I mean by tresselball? Solid defense with clock burning, mistake-minimized offense. Last year Troy made a number of poor decisions (almost all on the ground: struggling to break free of a sack and pitching to Ginn very late on an option come to mind) that ended up in turnovers, that sort of QB play is totally untresselballlike. There's nothing that says Tresselball can't move the ball, just that it's done safely, and I expect (hope) that's what we'll see a lot of next year. Our defense won't be able to hold the opposition out of the endzone if you give them 1st and 10 on our 15, we'll need field position more than ever...I just hope that field position is achieved by excellent kicking and coverage after numerous time consuming touchdown drives.