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Jim Tressel (National Champion, ex-President, Youngstown State University, CFB HOF)

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CentralMOBuck;1597113; said:
Here's a good article(basically just stats) from Rittenberg on ESPN about the Big Ten coaches vs their rivals. JT is far ahead of the curve compared to most of the others.
Big Ten coaches in Big Ten rivalries - Big Ten Blog - ESPN
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Delusional TSUN fans said:
Rodriguez. Minnesota. He'll always have that. And Delaware State. And these guys on defense...

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Tressel? He lost two NC games.
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And that's all I have to say about that.
 
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Kickoff: The guy in the sweater vest can coach
by Peter Schrager
Peter Schrager is a frequent contributor for FOXSports.com. You can e-mail him at [email protected].
Updated: November 19, 2009

Embrace The Vest

In light of Jay Leno's ratings struggles in his new 10 o'clock timeslot, Newsweek.com posted one of those pithy Internet lists, highlighting 12 "Comics Who Aren't Funny" last week. Tops on the list was comedian Dane Cook.

Though I understand where Cook could rub some people in the wrong way, the caffeinated stand-up comedian did just sell out Madison Square Garden, once had over 2.6 million fans on his MySpace page, and has been cast in the leading role in several big screen comedies. Sorry, Newsweek. Like him or not, Dane Cook must be doing something right. And based on results, he is, indeed, funny.

I'm sure Jim Tressel can relate to Dane Cook.

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Critics of Jim Tressel's old-school approach might call it bland, but it's hard to argue with the results. (Gregory Shamus / Getty Images)

Though I'm fairly certain The Vest has never downloaded any of the comedian's material or seen "Employee of the Month," he, too, is often criticized by pundits despite fantastic, indisputable results year in and year out. Perhaps no coach in all of college football gets a worse rap from the critics, despite amazingly consistent production.

This was never more evident than the media's immediate reaction to the Buckeyes' gripping overtime, Big Ten-clinching win over Iowa on Saturday.

Despite losing practically his entire defense and stars at both running back and receiver to the NFL Draft in April, a roster littered with underclassmen and one of the least inspiring offensive attacks in all of college football, there was Tressel on Saturday afternoon, jogging into the locker room having just clinched a share of yet another Big Ten title.

Instead of adulation and respect from the sports media chorus, the victory was met with sighs, groans and sarcastic commentary. The overall feeling was, "Ugh, here we go again." There were far too many tired headlines involving roses and thorns to count.

It's true, since Ohio State's 2006 Fiesta Bowl victory over Notre Dame, the Buckeyes have not had much BCS bowl success. They're winless in their past three January bowl games. And yes, there were two double-digit point losses in BCS Title games too. Saturday's victory was hardly the kind of win you like to see from a conference champion, either. To some fans' disgust (the Buckeyes were booed at points in the game), Tressel played it safe against Iowa, relying on defense and ultra-conservative ball control to ensure the win.

I'll give you all that. The past few Januarys haven't been very pretty for Tressel, and neither was Saturday's win.

But with the window wide open for an Iowa, Penn State or even Wisconsin winning the Big Ten title and representing the conference in the 2010 Rose Bowl, it's OSU ? despite a hideous offensive attack, ugly losses to USC and Purdue, and a play-for-overtime approach to Saturday's final minutes ? going to the Tournament of Roses.

Call it "Tresselball", call it what you will, but The Vest's "old school" approach to football has proved a successful brand of Big Ten pigskin yet again. Amid an era of spread offenses, Wildcat formations and Pistols out of the K-Gun, it's Tressel's bland, plodding gameplans that continue to reign victorious in Big Ten conference play.
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CFB - - FOX Sports on MSN
 
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Buckskin86;1596360; said:
Tressel's legacy defined by Michigan week - Big Ten Blog - ESPN
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"It's an exciting week," Tressel said last year at the start of Michigan week. "Our guys can feel the excitement on the campus and in the community. It's the reason many of them chose to go to Ohio State or to go to Michigan was so they could be a part of this game for four or five years and it's just a little bit different feeling. It's a hard one to explain unless you've been there."
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Spoken like a man that has a "Beat Michigan" button on his desk.
 
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Pac-10 staging best BCS race, Michigan mulling Rich Rodriguez - Stewart Mandel - SI.com

Hey Stewart -- PLEASE tell me you were joking in your Nov. 15 column where you quoted Jim Tressel as saying that his team can take a couple days off this week because Michigan has no defense!
-- Chad Hartness, Middletown, Ohio
No sir, I was dead serious. I snuck into the Buckeyes' locker room after the game and saw the whole scene. He said it, and then he ripped off his sweater vest, drank a glass of raw eggs, clenched his biceps and shouted: "HEY RICHROD -- WHATCHA GONNA DO WHEN TRESSELMANIA RUNS WILD ON YOU?!"


Are you trying to give the Wolverines a little bulletin board material? Absolutely NO WAY did Tressel make the statement attributed to him in "Looking Ahead." And after the meltdown the Bucks overcame in the last quarter against Iowa, no OSU fan with common sense should utter or even agree with such nonsense! Say it ain't so, Stew!
-- Gary Line, Hobe Sound, Fla.
OK, OK, I'll leave you with an actual, true story from Saturday.
After the postgame interviews had ended, a few other writers and I trekked back to the other side of Ohio Stadium to get back to the press box. As we were walking down the concourse (alongside the bathrooms and the concession stands, etc.) toward the elevator, a car started coming toward us -- driving right in the middle of a stadium concourse.
We stepped to the side, and as the red, Toyota Venza drove past, we looked into the passenger-side window and saw ... coach Tressel, munching on a turkey sandwich.
A triumphant coach, literally riding off into the night. In a Venza.

God, I love Jim Tressel. Conservative? Sure. Will he play for overtime? Yes. Does he drive fans crazy? Yes. But by god, the man wins, and wins, and wins. And wins some more.



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BayBuck;1595278; said:
A lot of this letter sounds like you're questioning Jim Tressel's character as a man just because you don't like how he runs his offense. If so... wow.

Also interesting that you suggest the 2010 team might be able to win it all in spite of the man who has built this program to the level where the letter-writers can have such ridiculously high expectations. I do hope your letter leads to a lasting friendship with Pat Forde.
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Sorry to take so long to respond to this:

1. As far as my 2010 expectations go, OSU's only BCS Conference OOC game is da "U" in Columbus, PSU and UM come to Columbus, and four (only four) road games are at Illinois, at Minny, at Iowa, and at Wiscy. As Illinois always is more dangerous to us in Columbus than C-U, and Minny just isn't very good, that's only two decent, but hardl insurmountable road hurdles to clear. Note that my letter is quite clear in being all praise for Tressel in regards to everything but offense, and all those other things, plus the inherent institutional advantages OSU has over all but a handful of other schools, could reasonably overcome the offensive shortcomings assuming the DL's impact players I named return.

2. As far as the character issue goes, I can see how you can read the phrase you highlighted, in isolation, as questioning Tressel's character, as I wasn't very artful. I did not intend in any way to question his character generally or in a manner that suggests that I think he's a bad person. As my letter said, I wouldn't want anyone else to run the program and I do think he's unquestionably a good and probably a great man.

That said, understanding the assumption I make, which are that the offense has consistently underperformed under Jim Tressel relative to all other on-field and off-field elements of the program, and my hypothesis as to a large part of the cause, his lack of seat of the pants "feel" for playcalling and momentum, which I believe is the flip side of his great strength for meticulous preparation and program management, then there are two possibilities:

1. He honestly doesn't agree with my assumption or hypothesis, and he could be right and I could be wrong, in which case he's completely off the hook, or he could be wrong, but even if he is that error only reasonably allows questioning of his coaching acumen; or

2. In his heart and mind he thinks my assumption and maybe even my thesis are correct but nonetheless won't make changes because he'd be bored (his publicly stated reason) or because of his loyalty to assistant coaches. If this is the case, he's not living up to his own professed standards of putting the "family" first or the oft-repeated mantra of the defense to "just do your assignment." If he knows the offense has generally been the weak link (based on NCAA rankings and his own almost never, if ever, achieved 250 passing yards, 200 rushing yards, 40 points standard I have to believe he's too smart not to) and knows he could make changes to improve things but won't, then I do think that he's putting his needs ahead of the needs of the program in contravention of all he professes to be, and I believe genuinely intends to be, about and it does diminish my generally high view of him as a man a little bit. What perhaps wasn't clear in my previous post, is that I know we've got a diamond: I just don't think it's a completely flawless one.
 
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Woody1968;1595268; said:
Like going for it on 4th down instead of trying to kick a field goal that would led to overtime at the least?
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Like getting the ball to start drives in USC territory four times, running Boom up the middle as the first play of three of those drives (for a total gain of one yard), and scoring a total of six points on those drives, including an 18 yard (4th and goal from the 1) FG.

Perhaps predictable and unsuccessful is a little more fair than "scared".
 
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Man. I love Tressel. No homo. But I love Jim Tressel.


Edit: In the last 40 years at Ohio State, who is the only man to win a National Championship at The Ohio State University...Jim Tressel.

And how quickly people forget that Iowa was 9-1 going into last week's game....or that we just dominated PSU.

Tressel knows what he's doing. The big wins will come. Patience is a virtue.
 
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on Spencer: Tressel's timing, like record vs. Michigan, borders on perfection
By JON SPENCER ? News Journal ? November 20, 2009

His football team is taking the field Saturday in uniforms right out of "The Jetsons," but don't expect Jim Tressel to change his stripes.

The Ohio State-Michigan rivalry hasn't been the same since he first donned his kryptonite vest on the third Saturday of November, looked across the gridiron at the Wolverines and went "Boo!"

Conceding that OSU's one-game, space-age armament of white jerseys, white shoes, gray pants and scarlet numbers is more "modern classic" than "throwback" and closer in inspiration to 2054 than 1954, Nike did not say if its blatant marketing ploy would include an alternate coach's outfit as well.

"I might be wearing one of those trench coats and a little Paul Brown hat," Tressel joked. "Not sure. Throwback sweater vest ... with buttons on the front. Whatever they give me, I wear."
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Jon Spencer: Tressel's timing, like record vs. Michigan, borders on perfection | mansfieldnewsjournal.com | Mansfield News Journal

Photographs from OSU's Tressel years: Countdown to Michigan | The Plain Dealer Library - cleveland.com
 
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Buckskin86;1600467; said:
YouTube - Questions with Coach Tressel
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You know lotsa folks say that Coach Tressel is getting benefit of a weak michigan teams. Well... Lloyd Carr quit because he kept losing to Coach Tressel. Last time I checked.. Carr's michigan teams were ranked #2 when they rolled into tOSU and in his last season...michigan beat Florida.

So... michigan did have good teams. They just couldn't beat tOSU. That's the reason Carr was forced out. So folks can say what the want...the bottom line is Coach Tressel is 7-1 and after today he will be
8-1.
 
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