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2008 weekly Press Conferences

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Here's a transcript from JT's weekly presser today. To see the video of it, registration and membership are required.

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COACH TRESSEL: This a not a credentialed event? I feel like I'm at team meeting. On behalf of everyone here we want to thank Donatos for that wonderful lunch. If at some of the TV timeouts we are all dashing to the concourse for Donatos this year, you'll have to excuse us. It was wonderful. Thanks for supplying that.
Well, we're finally to a game week and our guys are anxious to get out there and they've been banging against one another all through April and training together and competing with one another all summer long and preseason comes and you get back to competition and now they're chomping at the bit to get out in Ohio Stadium. They had a little taste of the stadium on the Monday night where the fans were allowed to come and the band was playing and cheerleaders were there and all the rest, and so it's anxious.
This is usually one of the longest weeks of the year because when preseason ends, you feel like, okay, it's time to play a game and all of a sudden you line up and you practice four more times. So today we had practice two of the week, and by about Thursday, they'll be so tired of practicing that they'll be ready to go. And right now we're in pretty good health. The guy that won't make the bell, I think, for certain is [URL="https://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=87743&SPID=10408&DB_OEM_ID=17300&ATCLID=1059471"]Kyle Mitchum[/URL]. He's still a little bit tender on that foot. A lot of the guys miraculously feel better this week than they did last week, so I think -- in fact Brandon Joe never practiced in August, but I think we're in pretty good health and ready to go. I think we've had excellent leadership throughout the summer and throughout the preseason camp, but as we always say, leadership isn't tested until some things don't go your way, and so we'll find out as those moments begin and we're just anxious to get out there and just like you're anxious to figure out who we are, we're anxious to figure out who we are, so I'll throw it open to questions.

REPORTER: Jim, I promise this will hopefully be the last cable-related question you'll ever get but Time Warner and the Big Ten Network got it done. Your reaction and did you think maybe that wasn't going to happen, be a second-straight year of not having that network in Ohio?
COACH TRESSEL: You know, I hadn't given that a tremendous amount of thought these last three weeks because we were focused on other things, but it is exciting. I had the utmost confidence that Gene Smith and [URL="https://admin.xosn.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPSID=87743&SPID=10408&DB_OEM_ID=17300&ATCLID=1255670"]Steve Snapp[/URL] and those folks would get it done with the Big Ten Network folks and Time Warner folks. I overheard Ken Gordon talking about, he had a caller on a show that didn't have any choice in their apartment complex and they maybe would have switched to something else if they didn't have a choice but didn't have it, so now everyone in Ohio will have a chance to watch their Buckeyes playing football, basketball, field hockey, and all the rest. So, yeah, it's an exciting time for us.

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Four youtube videos of the press conference, courtesy of the Ozone:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRN6uGkwoPk"]YouTube - Part 1 - Jim Tressel @ Media Luncheon - 02Sep08[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko2uJxGbae0"]YouTube - Part 2 - Jim Tressel @ Media Luncheon - 02Sep08[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k281hhmw0_4"]YouTube - Part 3 - Jim Tressel @ Media Luncheon - 02Sep08[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHHRJw6u5Ec"]YouTube - Part 4 - Jim Tressel @ Media Luncheon - 02Sep08[/ame][ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko2uJxGbae0"][/ame]

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COACH TRESSEL: Happy post Labor Day to all of you. Hopefully you got to labor on Labor Day like we did. Coach Bruce used to say this is my whatever straight year of laboring on Labor Day. We had a nice hot one yesterday. We were excited we got to play the game on Saturday, it seemed like spring practice and all the preseason, I can't imagine what all the guys were thinking with the time they spent in the weight room and out on the field on their own and so forth, it was good to get out there and see what we could do.

It's so different from practice in that after each play almost there's corrections going on and all those things and then you get into a game and you wait until you get to see the film and sometimes you don't realize some of the things that need to be corrected, and so it's a great opportunity for us, for a lot of guys to get on film.
Our defense probably didn't get as many snaps as you'd like in an opening game, but they did a good job with seven three and out and we talk a lot about getting take aways and so forth and we didn't quite get the number of take aways that we would like to get but on the other hand, when they're going out three and out, there's just not as many opportunities to get those, so there were a lot of good things that we saw.
There were some very, very good performances. Weren't quite as many winning performances as we've had in some ball games. I think our coaches and our players are setting a standard for themselves that they want to be very, very good and so the performances were solid, but I don't know that they were extraordinary, so now we have a chance to get out on the field and see if we can get better at a lot of things. And we did have some players of the week.


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Some highlights from the press conference today

- Hoping Power would be out so he would not have to watch the film from the game Saturday, but they did anyway

- USC is an EXCELLENT team

- They did not do enough pressure on them in any way for them to crack

- We measure ourselves where are we in terms to be the best and Saturday showed we are not there. We didn't do what it takes to be the best

- Can't make the errors we did to come up with a win. Penalties, we can not back ourselves up vs good teams like that. No way we can win when we do those things.

- T.O FOR TD's especially critical and is very disappointing. Worth 12 point in the scrimmage because of the importance

- We did not do a good job on special teams. Early in the 3rd quarter when Sanchez was not making the throws then punted to the 4. Had to get one first down to have a good punt and we didn't, then had a terrible punt.

- Troy is a dangerous game... Win or Lose because of coming off that game with USC

- Had a good practice with good foCus, not whining in the tank and went to work

- Troy Excellent speed, Thrashed Middle Tennesse who could have beat Kentucky

- Troy lives off the fact they will play anyone anytime and building a program

- Question asked if there is a loss and confidence in Todd Bokemen,or Oline, Or WR? Tress said none of the above. Is it disappointing we had a couple of TO's yes. Is it a problem, yes. Because of online Yes, out wide yes. Needs to get better, yes

- Players back - Steve out, Tyler back, Todd, Beanie Questionable still. Did cardio yesterday. Will be doing cutting and stuff today.

Was Beanie a distraction last week. Tress said no. They could tell he was not 100%. Guys have confidence in the other backs. Didn't want have unfounded hope with a game time decision.

- QB Rotation - Liked how it worked when it was good Saturday. Tuesday gameplan had them in. Things we are doing today TP will do 65% of the snaps and 35% of them Todd. If game was last night we would have Todd and TP about 50/50. What Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday looks like and we will see.

- What Risk of playing 2 QB's - Limitation in the number of snaps to prepare in practice and in a game. Todd had 50% and split 25 % with TP AND Joe during the practices this summer.

- VS OU, Todd had 95%. TP has progressed more then what you would think. He has grown with less experience. He has done an excellent job of learning by observing and credit to him for that.

- How did TP handle the atmosphere. If you know nothing about football you could not tell if he was a freshman. Said the environment was not like Camp Randell, or beaver stadium, but maybe we didn't provide the excitement for them to get fired up

- Why the unique rotation last week. Within a series TP was pulled to talk about what he was seeing etc. TP was screaming at the team to fire them up and had to reel him back to talk to him. Supports his team so much.

- Does playing a younger QB, close the Sr's and cause conflic?. Is that a risk. Hope they are thinking I need my performance to be better. And the coach has the best interest of the team in mind. Can it deviate, of course

- Disappointed with missed assignments

- Who missed the block when Todd got blind sided - It was the QB Hot read. Todd incorrectly assumed they were coming off the same look before.. His error. Came off and said he knew his mistake and that is a start.

Personal opinion. Tress does not see improvement in Todd and will be working in TP more and more and hopes TP keeps progressing I have never heard JT be more direct.
 
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- Things we are doing today TP will do 65% of the snaps and 35% of them Todd.

- TP has progressed more then what you would think. He has grown with less experience. He has done an excellent job of learning by observing and credit to him for that.

- How did TP handle the atmosphere. If you know nothing about football you could not tell if he was a freshman.
- Why the unique rotation last week. Within a series TP was pulled to talk about what he was seeing etc. TP was screaming at the team to fire them up and had to reel him back to talk to him. Supports his team so much.

- Does playing a younger QB, close the Sr's and cause conflic?. Is that a risk. Hope they are thinking I need my performance to be better. And the coach has the best interest of the team in mind. Can it deviate, of course

- Disappointed with missed assignments

- Who missed the block when Todd got blind sided - It was the QB Hot read. Todd incorrectly assumed they were coming off the same look before.. His error.

Some of those comments are telling. Thanks for posting. :)
 
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He deflected most of the tough questions regarding playcalling, red zone efficieny, and defensive scheming..

Also dismissed the notion that SC knew what was coming in regards to predictable offensive and defensive playcalls
 
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This week's presser in full.

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COACH TRESSEL: Everyone have their power back? I asked that question in the team meeting yesterday thinking four or five of them would say we don't. I'd say 75% of them had their hand up that they don't have power. Oh, well, that's why we're here, I guess. I was hoping on Sunday when we got back to watch the film the power would be out, but it wasn't, but, no.
You know, I think as I reflect on our game out at California, the first thing I would say is I think USC is an excellent football team. I don't think you can begin a discussion of that game without recognizing that. I think they played with excellent quickness. Obviously they have speed. I think they play with the discipline that we talked about as we viewed them on film.

I think they play with excellent toughness, and there was never a point in time where I thought that they allowed themselves to crack at all, and part of it is that we, at any point in time, I don't think, put enough pressure on them to make that possible to get them to that point where maybe we could have the pressure on them as opposed to them having the pressure on us.

There's no question about it, our measuring stick, whenever we look at how we would like to be evaluated, we want to be evaluated as to where we are in terms of being the best. Now that makes it a little bit difficult, but that's the way it is. That's Ohio State and that's the makeup of the guys that chose to come to Ohio State and the guys that have played at Ohio State in the past.

As you think about the, quote, old-timers at Ohio State, the ones that have the highest acclaim are the ones that became the best and that's why they have the reunion for the '42 team or this weekend, the reunion for the '68 team. It's much talked about. I'm sure that last year there was a reunion for the '67 team, but there wasn't much discussion about that, because they weren't the best.
So we understand that our evaluation is going to be based upon being the best and we did not do the things that you need to do on Saturday to be the best in that game or to be considered the best. Obviously if we won that football game last weekend, I'm sure we would be ranked Number 1, or whatever that means, but we didn't do those things. You can't make errors in a ball game like that and expect to come up with a win.

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