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

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Video: Coach Tressel wants OSU to learn
The Ohio State University head football coach Jim Tressel speaks during his annual visit to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Luncheon Club Monday, March 16.
By Todd Porter
CantonRep.com staff writer
Posted Mar 16, 2009 @ 10:44 PM
Last update Mar 17, 2009 @ 12:23 AM

CANTON ? Time wasn?t on Jim Tressel?s side Monday. It hasn?t been, really, since Ohio State lost to Texas in the Fiesta Bowl. The Buckeyes were 16 seconds away from redeeming the 2008 season when the Longhorns spoiled those plans.

Monday afternoon and night, Tressel went through a whirlwind tour of Stark County. First he hit the Pro Football Hall of Fame Luncheon Club. In the evening he was the keynote speaker at a fundraiser for the Stark County Dental Society. Getting the Ohio State head coach to divulge much about the offseason work of the Buckeyes can be like pulling teeth at times.

Pressed for time Monday as he shuttled from one event to the next ? mixing in a couple of area visits in between ? Tressel said the Buckeyes are working on just that this offseason: Time and the fine line between winning and losing.

Ohio State players recently concluded their internal winter Olympic competition. Tressel split his team into nine squads. On the final day, a winner was decided among three Buckeye teams (named for former OSU greats). Team Doss, Team Katzenmoyer and Team Griffin were the final three left with a chance to win.

In addition to lifting and other athletic fetes, teams can score points for grades and community service ? and lose points for being late to class or study table.

Team Katzenmoyer won a tug-of-war competition on the final day to edge Team Doss, 3,464 points to 3,462 points.


?The lesson there is, if one time you weren?t late, your team would?ve been the champion,? Tressel said. ?That?s the fine line between success.?
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Sunday Special: Tressel retools OSU offense
By Todd Porter
CantonRep.com staff writer
Posted Mar 22, 2009

In about two weeks, Ohio State will begin resurrecting itself for the 2009 football season. Spring practice begins April 2.

It?s the stuff that?s taking place between now and the start of summer camp that will determine what kind of team the Buckeyes will be.

Ohio State Head Coach Jim Tressel and his coaching staff are in the midst of scouting the one team they didn?t get to during the season ? the Buckeyes.

Although Tressel didn?t come right out and say as much during his trip through Canton last week, it isn?t hard to picture Terrelle Pryor running some variation of a Wildcat offense or even more work with the pistol formation.

Tressel seemed smitten when talk of the Wildcat offense came up during a visit with Hoover High School head coach Don Hertler Jr. and former Newark Catholic head coach J.D. Graham. The three talked shop for about two hours at a North Canton eatery.

What has Tressel interested is all that can be done out of it and how much preparation an opposing defense needs to get ready. Who knows where Pryor could line up?

Tressel has to get Pryor comfortable in an offense. The freshman phenom never seemed quite sure of himself, especially in the bowl game.

That?s all part of the self-evaluation study OSU coaches are going through.

?You have to figure out what your guys do best,? Tressel said.

Pryor came to Ohio State and got a late start. Tressel even made a passing reference during his visit to Canton a year ago when he said he would have to interrupt his talk if his cell phone rang because he was waiting for one more recruit.

Now that Tressel has had a full season and an offseason with Pryor, look for him to become the player everyone expected. It will be Tressel?s job to put Pryor ? and the rest of the offense ? in a position to succeed.

It will be easier to do that in 2009 because Pryor is the no-brainer playmaker.

PICKING BRAINS

Buckeye coaches are spending time in the Carolinas learning from other programs this spring. OSU coaches visited North Carolina, Wake Forest, North Carolina State and Duke this offseason to swap ideas.

But the coaches the Buckeyes have spent a great deal of time with will be speaking at OSU?s annual spring coaches clinic ? Wake Forest?s Jim Grobe and Missouri?s Gary Pinkel.
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Tressel To Receive Norman Cohn Hope Award

Columbus, Ohio -- Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel will be honored with the Norman Cohn Hope Award at the National Multiple Sclerosis Society's Dinner of Champions Thursday, May 21, at the Hilton Columbus at Polaris.

Proceeds benefit the Ohio Buckeye chapter of the National MS Society. The social hour begins at 6 p.m. with dinner and the program at 7:30. For more information, contact Jennifer Hamilton at 216/503-4170 or visit www.MSohiobuckeye.org
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OSU coach Tressel shows gratitude to military

Buckeyes coach makes stop at Wright-Patterson before heading overseas for football coaches' tour.

By Doug Harris
Staff Writer

Tuesday, April 07, 2009



Ohio State University head football coach Jim Tressel takes a seat on an Air Force plane during the 'Coaches Tour 2009 Kickoff Briefing' to salute the U.S. military at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on Monday April 6.




Ohio State linebacker Marcus Freeman, a graduate of Wayne High School, smiles with a fan at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.







WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE ? Jim Tressel knew he'd be showered with adulation when he made an appearance here before about 2,000 base personnel and their families, but the Ohio State coach felt somewhat sheepish about being on the receiving end of all that applause.
"It's a little embarrassing," he said. "It should be the other way around. I should bring about 1,000 of our players over and have them cheer (for the military).
"That's why, when they came back home, we want them to meet our players and put (our) hands together for them and hug them. While we may get some visibility, they're the ones doing the job, and they're the ones we need to keep reminding our young people about, that even though they don't make SportsCenter, they're the heroes."
Joined by his wife, Ellen, and graduated linebacker Marcus Freeman, Tressel climbed into the cockpit of a fighter jet, signed a slew of autographs and expressed his appreciation to the Wright-Patt community during the event, which was held in a giant hangar.
Tressel also is gearing up for a coaches' tour of Iraq and Afghanistan in a couple of months (the dates are being kept secret for security reasons), joining Texas' Mack Brown, Mississippi's Houston Nutt, UCLA's Rick Neuheisel, Wake Forest's Jim Grobe and Air Force's Troy Calhoun.
"I'm not exactly sure where we're going," Tressel told the throngs during his brief speech Monday. "It's kind of like you sometimes ? you just go where they send you."
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Ohio State Football
Air base abuzz for Tressel visit

Tuesday, April 7, 2009 2:57 AM
By Tim May


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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TEESHA McCLAM | Dayton Daily News
Jim Tressel gets a feel for the cockpit of a military plane on a visit to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton.


FAIRBORN, Ohio -- In his regular world, Neeraj Pujara works in the research laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. But yesterday, he donned the scarlet sweater that also identifies him as a longtime Ohio State football fan and welcomed into his domain coach Jim Tressel. "It really is a pleasure and honor, because as far as I'm concerned, coach Tressel sets all the perfect ideals," Pujara said. "He's got those Woody Hayes values. He's not just a football coach. It's the person he is that I really appreciate about him and cheer."
An estimated 2,000 Air Force personnel, civilian employees and friends or family members boisterously welcomed Tressel, his wife, Ellen, and former Ohio State linebacker Marcus Freeman to what amounted to a pep rally in a massive hangar. Tressel considered it the first stop on a May trip he will take with four other coaches, including Mack Brown of Texas, to visit military personnel in the Middle East.
As for the cheers, "it should be the other way around," Tressel said. "I should bring about a thousand of our players over and cheer for (the military people). Because while we may get the visibility, they are the ones doing the jobs, the ones we need to keep reminding our young people about that, although they don't make SportsCenter, they are the heroes."
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Simply amazing individual. There are so many of is Buckeyes around in the military, and it's such an amazing feeling having The Ambassador of Ohio State taking time out of his schedule to show his support to the troops. I wish I could be over there to see him!!
 
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Simply amazing.

JT apparently must create some adversity at OSU and then respond to it to become better than Ferentz.

And somehow RRs glorious 69% winning percentage in the mighty Big East provides evidence that his first year disaster was a fluke and he will win in the Big Ten at a rate greater than JT's 81%.

That is one solid article.
 
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Oh8ch;1445689; said:
Simply amazing.

JT apparently must create some adversity at OSU and then respond to it to become better than Ferentz.

And somehow RRs glorious 69% winning percentage in the mighty Big East provides evidence that his first year disaster was a fluke and he will win in the Big Ten at a rate greater than JT's 81%.

That is one solid article.
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in my opinion, Rich Rodriguez and West Virginia benefited greatly from Miami Virginia Tech and Boston Colleges split to the ACC ( I believe right after those teams jetted is when WV had their breakout)

as far as Ferentz goes, 1-3 vs Tressel, end of story
 
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That is opportunism at its best.

How many e mails did that piece of garbage generate with that list?

I know he is supposedly taking the body of work of Rodriguez into account, but even that doesn't put him 2nd on that list and it certainly doesn't put him ahead of Coach Tressel in this or any universe.

Let's look at what RichRod has done:
He has taken the once proud Michigan football program and turned it into a national laughing stock.

Lost to Toledo.

He is going to do nothing to change that this season when they may win 4 games instead of the 3 they won last year.

Coach Tressel won a national title in his second year at Ohio State. RichRod may lose to a directional Michigan team (Western) in their season opener in his second year.

He will also lose to ND, MSU, Iowa, Penn State, probably Illinois and probably Wisconsin (although Bielema showed his true colors last season and lost to that shitty UM team) and get routed by Ohio State again. All because he can't figure out how to coach anything but that spread option offense and he can't coach (let alone recruit) ANY defense whatsoever.

Rodriguez has never shown himself to be anything but an average to mediocre coach. The fact that it took him less than six months to drive the Michigan football program into the ground is proof of that. It's going to take years for that program to recover from what he is doing there.
 
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